The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28
BUSINESS REVIVAL.

BUSINESS REVIVAL
When this commission lets in Hayes. proba-
bly, many people will experience feeling OF
relief, but there will remain in the country
| hate injustiee and rebel In their hearts against
the success OF fraud. 1t is well that this Is so,
for nation that submits to wrong without
| protest, and bears outrage without anger and
| the determination to remedy the evils, Is In
| the way of its decline.-New York sun.
The business phases Of the political ques-
tons that are agitating the country are of
undisguised importance. We would not
dwarf them if we could-on the contrary,
We would bring them into boider prom
inence every day. But it is eminently be-
coming to look at this matter in way cal
| culated to lead to rational conclusions,
and therefore it is wise to ask, Who are re-
| sponsible for the general stupor that prevails
in business affairs? What ere the underly-
ing causes of inertneSs2 What has made con-
! fidenee disappear from the marts of COM
merce and industry? Why is there idleness
in all the land when heaven has been pro-
pitious and the harvests abundant? For all
| of this there has been one grand, central,
overshadowing reason, and it is found in the
ascendency of a corrupt rotten, thieving po-
litical party. Around this central cause 9th
ers have revolved and contributed their share
to the general depression, but the authority
of the radical party is as certainly the chief
cause and curse as that the sun is the great
source of light and heat. Radicalism
paralyzes every thing it touches. Like devil
fish, il pulls down and under; like crime, it
| degrades; like poison, it kills; like carton. it
stinks; like thief, it steals; like
| the devil, il lies. Its professions
of virtue are only equalled by its treachery.
II has one preference, self; one passion,
pride; one ambition, power. This party has
held sway a number of years and has de-
bauched every thing sacred in law, every
thing honorable in politics, every thing just
in government, and everything honest in
| business. With president a bride taker
and thieves for subordinates, the fountains
of integrity were poisoned and the streams
that flowed over the land were as cor
rupting as the drainage from a morgue
| Peculation, fraud and theft were
found everywhere. and the investi-
j eating committees unearthed crimes where
the ingenuity of devils had been displayed
to cover up their hiding places. Panics
were inaugurated by the financial officials
of the government, that they might specu-
late off of the ruin they entailed Black
| Fridays preceded blue Mondays, until wild
| confusion took the place of order, and the
strand was strewn with wrecks from pi-
J rate ships like Jay Cooke to the frail oyster
| sloop caught in the gale. Grant, Boss Shep-
herd, Belknap, Robson and others equally
prominent and infamous grew rich, while
| the wheels of industry were hushed and idle
men asked for bread. Under the reign of
| radicalism, widespread generalization took
the place of accountability and while Grant
received his tribute of pups, horses, houses
and lands, the lesser thieves organized rings
and jobs, which, when exposed, discovered
! gu amount of fraud hitherto unheard of in
snv land under the sun. These things
were the legitimate products of radicalism
| in authority, and it was in great measure
this infamous fraud record that brought
about the determination on the part of the
people to rid the country of the intolerable
curse. The decision was made at the ballot
1 DOA. III WIS COuCluSlNe, anu WOulu nave
| been final, but for the frauds that have since
been practiced by the radical party for the
purpose for new lease of power. Under
| these circumstances ii becomes a
matter of supreme Importance to
the country TO inquire what rea-
sons there are for believing that a
party, proved 70 be corrupt, and whose pol
| icy has led to business embarrassments and
| prostitution, will reinstate business conf
dence, release money from its locks and
| bars and revive the industries of the coun-
try. If the country would have business
prosperity it must get radical thieves out of
Office. 1t must purify every de-
partment of the government, and
see to it that the fountains from which flow
influences that corode like rust are dried
up, that integrity takes the place of fraud.
and that thieves give way TO honest men in
the management of public affairs.
This can not be expected under radical
rule. and if by fraud Hayes is inaugurated
president, the country may expect contin-
uation of Grantism-which, in the future as
in the past, means slow death to business