Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-25
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mr.. VaIletts Points Out Errors.

Mr.. Editor: In your issue Dec. 13
is another article from the pen Of Mr..
Montgomery, wherein he proposes to
quit replying to ]. c. Vallette and his
old crime of '73 talk OF course, Mr..
NJ. has a perfect right to quit, seeing
that he commenced the game, / sug-
gest it would look little more grace
full if, on quitting his own job. he had
made less errors and presented more
facts.
He first contradicts himself when he
says that Vallette is the only one on
earth that believes as he does" And
then he says there are a half hundred
populists in this country who are still
bowling about the crime of '73. In an
other place he says "the populists
number less than one-tenth of one
per cent. of the people" Quite di-
vergence from the only one on earth
to one-tenth Of one per cent. of ninety
millisn. In reply to his u. G. Vallette
did not answer single question |
asked him. He hedged them ALL will
simply say that makes two of kind.
In regard to his reference to condi-
tons in '93 and 70, l would suggest
that he get some reliable history Of
those dates and learn whether Vallette
or Montgomery is dead wrong. He
says: The empty bellies in '73-4-5-6
Immediately disappeared after the re-
sumption of specie payment, ONE
later" Some place it reads: You are
left to believe a lie that you may be
damned"
/ venture the assertion that Mr.. M.
cannot find any authority that specie
/ payments have been resumed. Mr..
Vallette is not particularly interested
in who were and who were not aero
| bats at that time, but simply pointing
out some Of the mistatements made in
that Dec. 13 yetter that Mr.. M. may
correct them, or some of them at
least. If it contributes to his happi-
| ness to label himself an acrobat, VAL
| lette does not object. Consistency
thou art a jewell of the first water,
| in some cases, but not in all. Strange,
| isn't it2 The conditions of empty bel
! lies in '73-4-5-6 were remedied by spe-
| Gle payments, and in '93 were cured
| by the repeal of the purchasing clause
! of the Sherman act. The strange part
is that both were cured by the same
| plaster, viz. the money question, ac-
| cording to Brother NJ.
| Mr.. NJ. appears to have got himself
| into a tangle in relating the Hyperion
| theater episode. He doesn't appear to
! be able to discern the difference be-
| tween a genuine greenbacker and q
! pretended one, and there were many
| of the latter about that time, that
! voted for free coinage Of silver and
| William Jennings Bryan in SO. Our
| friend does not record whether he was
J one Of the genuine or one of the pre-
! tended, but does admit that he was
| one of that once great greenback
party" The most laugable part is
! that those genuine or pretended
/ greenbackers captured the democratic
party. The Dutch have taken Hol-
! land" The facts are that the pretend
! ed greenbackers attempted to capture
! the genuine, but there os many a slip
| 'twixt the cup and the lip"
Let me tell MIR. NJ a little short
! story about the crime of '73, and that
| is that no genuine 81 eenbacker be-
! lieves or claims that any crime was
| committed in '73. The good old story
about the crime Of 70 is that the pre-
| tended once great greenback party, in
| including c. B. NJ, was composed
| mostly of the Bryan branch of the
democratic, party, and their howl was
! to remonetize the silver dollar which
| had not been demOnetized. Mr.. V. ven
| lures the assertion that c. Il, NJ. did
not know then C96) and does not to-
| day know the basic principle Of genu-
| inc greenbackism.
]. c. VALLETTE.
| North Franklin, Conn.,, Jan. %, 1912