Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-11-19
A Great Peace.

columns as IL is today. The reasons
Is that our country has come 10 a
peace almost complete and perfect.
If the fathers Of the republic see us
now they must feel that we have
reached conditions conforming In
their Ideals and dream. The section.
al jealousies, resentments and bitter
ness which began with the beginning
OF our life as people have disar-
peaIed. Questions which disturbed
us through more than a century have
been settled. Even political differ
enoe' have faded until they are so
vague that half of us hardly know
TO which party we should belong.
we have no eXcitements, no serious
disturbances. We are in a time of
general good will and good feeling.
This is hard on the newspaper edi-
tors but good for the peopIe. We
have no OCCASION, pretext or reasons
for the fiery and ringing articles
which used To- make the editorial
columns thrilling. No great pub-
lie dangers threaten. No vast wrongs
exist among us. We cocnern our
selves with economic questions and
matters of commercial and financial
policy, and with our personal and
community affairs. Political and
governmental standards are higher
than the used To he. Nearly every
where the governments and officials
are honest and efficient. Everywhere
they are better than they were TWEEN
" I'VE years ago. The newspapers
have no need 10 thunder. We have
nothing TO thunder about or against.
Here and there bit of rascaIity or
an instance OF neglect Of duty or i'm
efficiency develops in our hubble
affairs but usually il is too trivial
10 Justify excitement or 10 demand
rhetoric or heat. We have ceased
TO quarrel and fight among ourselves.
The great rows and connections have
been ended AID disposed of.
The shouting and the tumuIt hav-
ing died, the public connections and
eXcitements having disappeared, peo-
pie nave leisure TO turn their minds
ana energies TO important things
long neglected and TO permanent re-
SUITS. We are thinking and talking
now OF the moral and physical bet
terment Of ourselves and our fellows.
+ we are studying problems OF mu-
nlc'pal government and working
them out peacefully and gradually.
we are considering the improvement
I OF the public health, and social CON
ultiohs- Wee are realizing more
than ever before the brotherhood of
mankind, our responsibility for each
other. the duty of the stIonp and
fortunate 10 help the weak and the
unlucky. Great religious moral and
REFORM movmnts attract the attention
and thought which used to he con-
centrated on sectional animosities
ana burning political issues. No
BODY now has any doubt OF the STA
bility and permanence of the GOV
eminent or Of the continuance of the
development and improvement of the
people. We have learned 10 have
confidence i'm ourselves and i'm each
other. We divide into political par
ties and into religious denomina.
tlon, but we no longer fear each 9th
er. Nobody believes that the conn
Try VIII be destroyed or its fonnda-
lions shaken no matter what poIiti-
cal party may prevail; and nobody
believes that people of all other de-
nominations and beliefs but their
own a e hell bound heIetics and nen
aces in souls.
Inc peace we have in this coun-
Try Is almost world wide. We are
told that when the Christ was born
the tepmle OF Janus mt Rome was
closed because the world knew thar
home was at peace for the second
Tune In seven centuries. But Rome |
knew little OF the world, after all |
AT the very time the temple was
closed Indian tribes or this CONT
nent might have beer tomahawkinp
each other and in China and Janan
ana Mexico, in Africa, and even i'm
India. tribes and nations NAV have
been slaughtering by wholesale.
NOW II cat fight occurs at the An
tlpodes the telegraph wires bling us
news OF 1t the same day. In the
news columns of the newspapers
we survey and scan the entire planet
And the world is at peace now as
never before. Alitte settle between
factions in Nicarauga.
with the loss of fifteen men consti-
Iuting great battle, casual BUSH
whacking between the Spaniards
and the Riffs, with some wild shoot :
ing III BIeathitt county, Kentucky. .
constitute the worlds disturbances.
Great Britain is excited over poll
ics' but that is matter of taxation .
ma money, and does not Involve the
existence or dangerously threaten
he welfare of any citizen.