Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-13
Danielson, Conn.
The Only Man on Earth of His Belief

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Editor of Bulletin: Knowing that
nothing can be gained by keeping up
an argument with a man who is the
only one on earth that believes as he
does, and a man who has for 80 years
doggedly refused to keep abreast of
the times, l intended to quit replying
to j. c. Vallctte and his old crime of
'7s' talk. but in your issue of Dec. 8
he evidently knowing he could not
dispute the facts L gave him) branches
Off into a somewhat personal line, and
that will not allow to go unnoticed.
To begin with. 1 still claim that l
forced ]. c. ValIette to openly ac-
knowledge that he does not understand
the money affairs of France, when the
whole eastern part of this country
knows that he never before acknow-
lodged he didn't know it all
Now, Mr.. Nallette speaks of the dy-
ing tariff humbug. It looks like dying,
doesn't il, when more messages are
pouring in on congress, more different
tariff bills are being eagerly pushed
forward by a greater variety of ism
Of the different parties than ever be-
fore In the nations or worlds history.
Dying tariff humbug, indeed Mr. VAL
lette knows he is stating what is not
Sc when he states that anything con-
nected with the tariff is dying
AIR. Vallette says I am an acrobat
il. politics. Let that go. 1t is just
exactly what a man who knows any
thing about politics must be called to-
day by one who lives on errors OF 40
years ago, calls advance laws crimes.
calls monetary reform robbery. calls
all of the fnanciers of the world who
care to succeed Shylocks and robbers
and gives nothing to replace the strong
financial standing of one nation but a
heresy worn threadbare almost 40
years ago.
I wish Mr. Vallette or anyone else
would tell me how a man can keep up
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who number less than one tenth of one
per cent of the people, without be
coming something of an acrobat If
learning that theory does not work
well in practice is becoming an aero
bat, then I am proud to be one
If learning and changing with the
demands of a great nation are aero
battle signs, I am proud to have those
signs point my way.
j. z. Nanette did not answer a single
question I asked him. He hedged them
sill. J. c. Vallette is dead wrong when
he says conditions in '93 and '73 were
the same. If he win look up the exact
Gate of the revival OF business in the
Cleveland second administra ton he
viii find that it dated from the day
that President Cleveland. with the
help of sound money democrats and
republicans, opposed only by men who
irg, repealed the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act
Banking business revived at once
and the great manufacturing interests
that had feared further disturbance of
business by more sectional tariff tin
kering became more confident also and
the panic was over
The empty bellies in 1874 SO were
due to an entirely different cause-or
il the cause was the sa1ne-a monetary
one-it Immediately disappeared after
the resumption of specie payment,
some later.
Never in a single instance has ]. c.
Naflette introduced one line Of evil
Cience to show that the high cost of
living is not entirely due to the laws
Of supply and demand.
Another point about that acrobat
before I close When the great repHb-
Lean protective tariff party elected
James a Garfield a member of the
Golden Free Trade club in 1850, who
We're the acrobats? When the great
trade factions elected Samuel J. Rar-
Call. high protection democrat t.
speaker three times in the '70's, who
were the acrobats?
When the democrats in 1895 adopted
4 platform bound M almost entirely in
tho 16 to ! plank that had been howled
about in Washington for years by such
staunCn republicans as Senators Teller
Dubois, Stewart. Jones' and in fact
all OF the members from the great
northwest. who We're the acrobats?
When the populist marty of which
J. c. ValIette was member. voted by
thousands in such a way in 1892 that
fheir candidate, General Weaver drew
off republican votes enough to elect
that great sound money man. Cleve-
land. president, who were the aero
hats2
When j G valIette the late lament
cd Alex Troupe Col. f. VI. Graves
Lon. A. T. Tanner and the rest of the