Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-09-08


dit and home building easy to the
tillers of the soil; service that in
the stormiest hours of Americas life
and the bloodiest days of the life of
the world, you have kept our people
at peace with all the earth; serv-
ice that has kept homes happy, fam
lily circles unbroken, while the Old
World staggers beneath it's weight of
sorrow, mourning and death; serv-
ice whose victories for the freedom
of the seas, the rights of neutral
life, the protection of American citi-
zens and American rights stands re-
splendent in the worlds information
al law and in the earth's diplomacy.
This great triumph which you ac-
hieved for America and the world
gave protection to noncombatants and
neutrals that war-mad countries must
respect, and this diplomatic achieve
ment will be the guiding, protecting
precedent to millions of lives of the
innocent and unoffending long after
you are gone. This triumph of yours
will not be told in history by great
war debt, mammoth pension roll
vacant chairs at unhappy firesides,
and Decoration Day services to place
oflwers upon the mounds of those
f! who achieved it, but it will be told in
the victory of matchless diplomacy
| and of irresistible logic, presenting
in an unequaled manner the everlast-
ing principle of justice.
Under your unriValed and fear
less leadership you have rescued the
little children of America-the fu-
ture fathers and mothers of our race
from the grinding slavery of the
| sweatshop and the factory. No divi-
Il dn dc FA.A,, -. F,.l,.
bear the stain of their toll and ears;
their youthful days will be spent in
the fresh air of growing life and in
the schoolrooms of the land, where
they will be properly prepared in
strength and mind TO become the fu-
ture citizens of Il great, humane and
free republic.
| You behold your country after
three and half years of your adj
miniStration more prosperous than
ever in it's history. The earnings of
the laborers of America exceed by
three billion dollars their earnings
under four years of the administra-
ton of your predecessor; the saw
ings of the people deposited in the
banks of our country amount to six
billion dollars more than was depos-
tied under the four years of the adj
| HliiilStIdliOn OF MI. Ia1C.
"Our exports for the first time in
our history lead the world; our far
mers are more prosperous than ever;
business is free; Individual endeavor
is no longer denied it's reward. The
increase in the business of the COM
mercial world is so great that it al
most staggers the mind to contem-
plate it, Notwithstanding a worlds
war has called for legislation to stay
the process of the courts in debt col
ections in all the neutral countries
of the world except here, where
plenty blesses and prospers our peo-
pie. Your beloved country marches
forward to prosperity never dream
Ell OF. Your opponents rae unwilling
ly forced to admit this happy condi-
ton of our people, which they say is
not permanent, but they shall be no
more regarded as prophets now than
they were when they said it could not
come.
-Four years ago in accepting the
nomination of the Democratic party
for the presidency you stated that
you would seek advice and counsel
wherever you could obtain it upon
free terms; this you have done. You
uncovered and drove a mighty lobby
out OF the capitol and invited Ameri-
cans OF all stations to come and coun-
, sci with you. The laborer with his
grimy hand, the farmer with the tan
of the blazing sun upon his face, the
railroad men who hold the throttle,
swing the lantern and direct the roll
ing wheels of commerce, the toiler
from the damp and darkness of mine.
from the sop, the mill and the fac
tory: the business men from their
| offices, the clerk from the counter,
the banker, the artisan, the lawyer
and the doctor have come and found
welcome and shared counsel with YOU.
they knew you were free to serve,
that you were Embossed, unowned.
and unafraid. They knew you only
sought the truth and when you found
1t you were ready to challenge all of
its adversaries to any conflict.
when peace shall spread her
white wings over charred and
bloody world. in the quiet of the
chamber of the just historian, when
the din and roar of political antag-
onlsm shall have ceased, when the
prejudice and passion of partisan
ship shall have died away, when prin-
ciple shall actuate men and parties
rather than appetite, when ambition
shall no longer lure men and parties
to unjust attack, the historian will
accord to you and your administra-
ton 5i foremost place in the repub-
People Not Ungrateful.
-, Americans are not ungrateful;
the people are not unpatriotic; thew
recognize the thousands of Difficult
ties that no man could foresee which
you have encountered and mastered.
Their verdict is already written; it
has been agreed upon at the fire
sides of the land and has been nodded
IN the schoolhouses, the places of
worship, and wherever Americans
meet to talk over the affairs and good
OF their country. That verdict leaps
heart in undying gratitude to Won
for the service you have rendered.
Tor the peace, prosperity and happi
ness your leadership has given, and
! but voice this day the overwhelm-
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