Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-29

FOR many years you heard moth
ing but Cleveland soup houses and
calamity bowls, but you do not hear
anything of that kind this year. The
speakers know they would be howled
down if they tried to preach hard
times. AS Col. Laurence Tiernev
said recently, the Democrats huy.
not only given the Nottingham n
full dinnerpail, but they have given
him whole cafeteria and told him
to help himself. Formers are yettinr
more for their butter, eggs, chickens
and farm products of all kinds then
they ever got before. They have to
pay more for what they have to buy.
but they can pny more taxes, pay
more debts ut the banks and stores.
and get more goods for the same
amount of potatoes or corn or butter
than they ever could before. Whv
do you want change? Aren't times
better now than you ever knew them
before?
And just II word i'll regard To tho
Cleveland panic, so-called. Perhaps
some of you are old enough to re-
member that it was n Harrison panic
in 1892 that gave Cleveland such nm
overwhelming majority and that
Cleveland got the blame for panic
that was already OH the country
months before he became President.
People forget that Charles Foster
had the bonds engraved which Clevc-
land issued Immediately after his in
auguration, and that Cleveland found
n bankrupt treasury when he went
into office. Foster wns lIarrison's
Secretary of the Treasury.
Harrison, however, was no more
responsible for the panic than Clcvc-
land was. 1t was due to the rotten
monetary system fastened on this
country by II Republican congress-.
and the same system under which the
panic of 1907 during Rooscvclrs nd
ministrntion was forced OH the coun-
try. The last panic had no other OBJ
ject but to force President Roosevelt
to submit to the theft of the Ten
nessee Conl and Iron Company, and
the fighting Teddy was forced to
submit to save the country from
disaster which threatened if the
panic continued. have always
thought Teddy felt awfully humiliat-
cd, but what could he do when he
knew Wall Street had the power To
prolong the panic until it got what
it wanted?
In 1912 tho Republican party had
become so much the tool of the big
interests that Mr.. Roosevelt rcbellcd
and formed the Progressive or Bull
Moose party and the Republicans re-
ceived severe rebuke, but in 1916
the leaders promised to be good and
Teddy and his followers went bncls
to what they believed was reform
cd Republican party. In 1920, how
ever, we find the same old Guard in
control, with the most bitter reac-
tionary they could find as their nom
inee for President, and the true Pro,
gressives have had to rcorganize the
old Progressive Party and mako n
fight for Jimmy Cox. They have
opened headquarters in New York,
and Chicago, within the past few
days, md arc making vigorous
fight to defeat the men who have
betrayed the party of Lincoln and
Garfield to the Wall Street rcac-
tionary gang.
Many of the men who acknowledge
allegiance to the Republican Party
today became Republicans on the
Tariff issue, because they honestly
believed we could not have pros
perity in this country without pro-
tective tariff. They were as misguid-
ed on this question as the men who
believed city without saloons WIS
n dead city. But they were honest in
that belief. President Wilson appoint
ed a non-partisan committee Of tariff
| experts and that issue has been re-
moved from American politics, and
the men who were Republicans on
the Tariff Issue alone no longer have
reason to belong to that party. Many
of them are at heart Democrats but
still cling to the old party name.
Men and women, isn't it about time
for you to wake up to the fact that
new issues have sprung up in this
country and that old party names
do not mean what they once did
The Democratic Party is essentially
the Poorman's Party. 1t has done
more for the laboringman in the
past seven years than was ever done
in the history of the country for the
workingman by the Republican party.
The Income Tax has become fixed
party of the policy of the Govern
ment so that the rich man shall pay
his just proportion of the taxes. A