Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-05-02
The Peoples Forum

Inc NeW Era aC WaSnlnSlOn.
To the Editor of The World:
President Woodrow Wilson is
transforming the White House
into something better and finer
than it has been for many a
year, and his family by their
beautiful example is an inspira-
ton to the American people.
(Rev.0 Stephen 7. Dekins.
(of st. Louis, Mo-
New York, April 20.
Hunger Strikes.
To the Editor of The World:
You write is if it were sheer
fun to go on hunger strike-a
thing so easy and so pleasant
that criminals will be trying it
in every prison in our land.
1t takes something stronger
than "hysteria" to develop a
consistent and persistent hunger
striker; nothing but intense
devotion TO cause can account
for the willingness of women in
England to undergo such suffer-
ing. That cause is dearer to
them than their life; they hold
life and health cheap in compar-
.ison. Try three days fast
yourself and see how much will
power you have left on the
fourth day to continue it.
1t is easy to rail at the mil
itants as fanatics, and easy to
think that settles the matter.
But don't forget that every
passionate refomer from the be-
ginning of the world has been
called by that name; and the
reformers have in the end won
out.
The hot zeal of emotional
minds has to be added to the
calm logic of cooler ones before
the average sluggish citizen can
be awakened from his indiffer-
ence to social wrongs.
ELMA DAME.
New York, April 10.
The Leeches of Protection.
To the Editor of The World:
One does not need gold of
acquired literature or silver of
human eloquence to know that
when the necessities of human
life get into the control of a lot
of selfish, greedy, grasping men
under the fostering care of the
Government in the name of pro-
lection, the righteous thing to
do is to take from these human
leeches the governmental protec-
ton they now have and are
using against the peoples hun
ger. If the protective tariff
enables these human vutlures to
corner the workingman's food
and shove the price above his
ability to pay, then obviously
the remedy is to reverse the
governmental policy and reduce
the volume of protection, if not
take it away from them al
together.
The way to stop thing is to
stop it. Let the jackals howl;
draw their fangs and pare their
grasping claws. The American
people don't care if the operation
does hurt them, nor do they care
how much they howl. They have
had no mercy on the men, wom-
en- and children in this broad
land, and have made them
suffer the pangs of hunger be-
cause of their Unsuitable, inhu-
man, unholy greed for enearned
gain.
| admire President Woodrow
Wilson, Congressman Under
wood and all those noble human
itarians in Congress who stand
like granite listening SYM
pathetically to the cries Of the
people demanding that the ne
cessities of life have the tariff
on them reduced or removed
entirely.
That the interests of this
country will not suffer in the
conduct of their business, that
the manufacturers will not be
seriously affected if they run
their plans on a legitimate,
live-and-let-live basis, is not
only the opinion of President
Wilson and his supporters in
Congress, but also of the great
masses of the people in this
t county. Calamity bowling is the
stock in trade of one of those
who have unrighteously been
benefited under a policy that has
made them enormously wealthy
at the expense of the people.
Speed the righteous task OF
revising the tariff downward
Wilmer Jay Smith,
Belvidere, N. j., April 20.
New York World.