Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-11-27

mas Dttn discussed DN nearly every jOurDa-
list. and the regrets over the victories and
defeats. have in measure died away.
The causes and influences, which operated
toward the one end and the other, begin to
be taken into consideration. The two
great political parties which have 50 long
divided the country and promises to divide
it for some years, that we are looking into
the future, it will be wise for the Republican
leaders to calmly glance into the immediate
past, and seek out and remedy the evils
which have brought the party to its present
condition. The more thoughtful of the
party leaders, on both sides, unite in the
opinion, that the hard times have
had more to do with the reverses Of the
Republican party, than The hard knocks it
received either in Congress, in the news
papers, or on the stump. When Congress
met last December, says the Washington
Rpu5l'coa, the country was staggering
under the effects of the panic of the preced-
ing September. For nearly two months
the PROSTATE industries of the country have
been anXiousiy awaiting it's meeting,in the
expectation that with it would come,an end
to the suffering and distress that were felt
upon every hand. If the reader will go
back TO the newspapers Of that day, he will
find that the President was urged to call
Congress together in advance of its regular
time Of meeting; but he did not do 50, and
when the hour Of final adjournment came,
in tbe early days of the following summer,
the sum and substance of its work only
showed the wisdom of the course he saw
fit 10 persue.
The winter and the spring were all
wasted in idle talk and discussion in the
airing OF all manner of crazy theories by
all manner Of speculative, impractical men,
the majority of whom ought TO have been
sent to the insane asylums. We had COM
mittCes and delegations of merchants and
bankers from ;he North and the South
doctrinIaircs by the hundred, and men
with patent financial schemes by the thous-
and. The result, As we said, was that
nothing was done that the fall and the
campaigns of October, and the present
November came only to find nearly two
hundred of our railroad companies in de-
fault of their interest the farmers dissatis-
fed nearly half the mills of New England,
and the iron furnaces of PENNSYLVANIA
closed, or running on one fourth time.
Mechanics and workingInen we've brought
face 70 face with the rigid terrors of winter,
without bread for their families. a dollar
in their pockets, or the prospect of a dollar.
Nobody can deny that such is the actual
situation to-day in every section Of the
country. All trade is al stand still in
dustry is dead, adversely and poverty con-
front ninety per cent Of the community
without the slightest prospect Of relief.
What wonder that the elections have cone
against the party in power? No matter
whether or not the party in power is or is
not justly responsible for ii. Whenever Il
similar condition of affairs has existed in
this country, the party having charge of
the Government has been held accountable,
and all attempt to explain it away only
tends TO aggravate and make matters worse.
Such is the situation in which the Rcpubli-
can party is now placed, and If it closes
its eyes upon the fact and gropes around
for the reasons Of disaster in mere seuti-
ment and side issues, and does not remedy
the errors that have Geen made, the revo-
luton which has just taken place will be
followed by another one, and another TO
which the present is a mere street brawl."
The Republican party can be made
stronger before the country by 1876 than it
has been for wears. if it will only ond
seize the opportunity within its grasp dur
ing the next three months. But if il shall
persist in going on as il has been going,
when the next election comes there will be
scarcely enough left of il 10 call a conven-
tiOn or make nominations. Ii will no. do. as
some Of our contemporaries and leaders are
whispering and suggesting, to stand still
and give the Opposition, flushed with sue
cess and victory, rope enough. That is
trail and slender thread, and the mistake
may be made once too often. If the Re-
publican party would live, il must give the
country some policy besides the old. worn,
and threadbare one Of years ago. The
agriculturists, the mechanics, and the
labOreTs Of the Republic are idle. or next TO
idle, and they demand relief It is for the
party ln power to say how that relief shall
come. They are tired Of listening 10 mere
platitudes in Congress about government:
they want work, and they hear the Opposi-
ton party, which planned and plotted the
destruction OF the nation fourteen years
ago, telling them that the only way they
can obtain tha; work is by sending it back
to the control Of the Governments; Is the
Republican party ready to admit this
As but three months will bring the answer,
the whole end and aim of legislation, from
the time Congress meets in Deccmbcruntil
it adjOurns in March, without recess or
holiday amusements, should be to relieve
the industries Of the country at whatever
risk Or sacrifice. The watchword of the
hour should be, Put the working men 70
work. ''
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