Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-06-25

Doan's kidney pills-the same that
Mr.. Hagy had. Foster Miluburn Co.,
props, Buffalo, N. Y.
good words like "peacc" and "bro-
therhood." But, ut all costs, he had to
seize even this spteful pretext to
retain his waning notoriety. The
peace he advocates merely happens
to be the most convenient peg"
This from an editorial in which the
same high level of journalistic gen
tility is sustained, was reproduced
from the Wall Street Journal by the
Roanoke Times for the edification of
its last Sundays audience Doubtless
it was selected from the current mass
of exalted sentiment and refined ex-
preston because of it's obvious and
peculiar transparency of truth and
decency. That this cminently fair and
apt characterization of Bryan was
written by a "dccent man" and q
gentleman" is unmistakable-a rep
resentative of the code of dcconcy
that prevails among intellectual pros
titutes and specimen of that breed
OF gentleman descended from an I'M
broken line of blackguards.
This putrid screed of contradictory
nonsense, which evidently appealed
to the Roanoke Times as an intell
gent expression of public opinion is
a fair sample of the recent outcut of
the anti-Bryan editorial liars and
ignoramuSes. Listen to this: "Mr.
Bryan is out for his own pocket and
his own influence all the time. + =
But, Mt all costs, he had to seize this
spiteful preteXt to retain his waning
notoriety.' Which is brilliant and
consistent expression of the paradox
ical conclusion lately offered for the
serious consideration of an intclli-
gently informed public by nine-tenths
of the editors and owners and hire
lings of the press. They approach that
conclusion from many angles and,
sometimes, after many dusty leagues
OF rhetorical, rot, but sooner or later
inevitably they get there. Follow
their logic: Mr.. Bryan desires to re-
fill depleted pocket-book and regain
n waning popularity; ninety-fve per
cent of the press and people arc solid
ly behind the President in tense
and critical period and have so re-
corded themselves; Mr.. Bryan en-
braces the opportunity to resign as
Secretary of State that he may rake
IN Hans shekels and drink fresh cup
of glory in German rathskeller.
Such methods are contemplate and
such logic is bait for fools.
Clark Howell inherited the editor
ship of the Atlanta Constitution; it
was bought with his fathers money.
1t is strange irony of circumstance
that the newspaper which reflected
the superb genius and manhood of i
Henry w. Grady should have fallen
into the hands of lathe-brained,
bigoted mOntebank. The Constitution
is journalistic mountain that has
brought forth mouse.
One bellicosc, antideluvian scribe |
who has climbed to the SHOWS of age
with a crouch, a grump and give
'em-'ell garrulity, after shutting
through an arduous fortnight of in
vectlve and inuendo, finally made
the discovery that MIR. Bryan's mind
lacks the faculty OF coordination.
MIR. Bryan's mind seems to have CO.
ordinated fairly we'll at Baltimore
where he prevented the nomination
OF n bench-iegged candidate and gave
TO the country, president who has
never straddled.
Nor can there be further doubt
that MIR. Bryan has begun contemp-
tiblo campaign of unprincipled agita-
ton, with the purpose, if it be pos
sible to do SO, to undermine both the
Presidents policy at home and the
position of the nation abroad"-says
the Baltimore Star; playing the part
OF the vulgar spokesman" adds the
New York Times; and so ad infnitum
rolls the tide of cheap and senseless
accusation and insinuation. Josh Wise
says: "A fool has as many ideas as
a wise man, but they're FOOLS ideas"
But had you ever before observed the
overwhelming majority of fools and
their endless and pernicious fluency? |
Such is the tone of the press-the |
forum that is moulding the thought
and shaping the opinion of the splen- |
did youth of this country. 1t has de-
generated into an Infamous monster.
MISLEADING freedom for unbridled /
license. 1t foully assassinates charac.
ter and gloats with satanic fendish |
ness over its victims. The public man
who dares to run counter to it's opin- |
ions and purposes is marked for slau- |
ghterr and dubbed with the weapons
of the sneak and coward. But of |
course there are notable exceptions.
Inc moral cailDre OF man can be |
Judged with great accuracy by noting
the motives that he reads into the acts |
OF others. A man who is incapable of |
dong an ignoble thing never con-
ceived OF another doing it. A man
who reads motives into the acts of |
others does but register, for the scru- |
tiny of others, the inner workings of |
his own mind-what he would do him
self"
Mr.. Editor, if snarl is proper
return for agrowl, perhaps have par
TALLY succeeded in accomplishing NV
purpose.
Yours. etc..
H. MASSENA SMITH.