The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-24
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The Meeting Saturday Night.


elsewhere in this mornings paper and we
need not enlarge upon It here. We
heard at the Capitol building portion Of
Mr. Rundall's remarks. Itdid not strike
US that he was throwing any particular
light on thecause and cure Of existing
financial Ills. There are score Of work.
ingmen in our midst who could do as we'll
iinot better in the way Of dispensing iniOr-
nation, People donot need to be told over
and over again the same old story about
lack Of employment, nor cited TO mum.
berles inciden:s TO illustrate It. Every.
body is fully informed upon that point.
What is wantedi is reuedy-a panacea,
Il there Is aDy-or an allevia.
tiOn II there Is not. Mr.. Randall is
like very many Of the quack doctors who
90 The rounds Of the country. They are
immensely specific in their mode OF treat.
ment, They do not cure the patient by
Constitutional treatment. They put on a
poultice Of some sort and cure cancer.
They have no power 10 diagnose the real
nature Of the disease, but they can tell
how to cure y. For instance, more green.
backs are certain to cure panic. A
panic ia nothing but surface disease and
only needs some gentle topical treatment.
Anything like constitutional treatment is
entirely unnecessary.
Now this is where We differ with all
such men Us Mr.. Randall. We believe
that this country has been thoroughly
sick for the last four yenra, and that this
sickness proceeded from'y years Of harmful
dissipation, suci::ns seriously sapped its
vital energies and called for long and
slow process Of recuperation. Money
was spent, real property destroyed, artif.
cial values created, and credit stretched |
and strained to n.extent never known in |
the history Of the world in the same short
space Of time.
Some people think that all this was a
matter Of no special consequence-this
riOtOus destruction and imitation Of oivaIues
and are full Of argument to show that il
only they or somebody like them had
been in charge OF the government the
panic would have been mere GO or 90
days affair. The whole land has been
afflicted to death with quacks proclaim.
ing their nostrums for the cure of the
panic. They remind one Of the swarms
Of Lilliputians who administered upon
the person Of the disabled Gulliyer.
II Mr.. Randall will turn 10 our dis.
patches, he will find in he'brief synopsis
Of some remarks made by Senator Thur.
man at Marion, Ohio, far more informa-
tion than he dispensed to the workingmen
Of this city on Saturday night. Thurman
understands us we'll as perhaps any other
man in the country, what it is that ails us
all. He summarizes it rs follows: The
waste OF the war, over production, euor.
NOUS taxation, and the appreciation Of
our credit, that is, our currency.
Thurman said in speech delivered
more than two years ago, in the United
States Senate, that he remembered all the
panics since 1910, and his observation had
been that it took from four to five years
for the country 10 become convalescent
after panic. And yet orators Of the
Randall pattern could set the country on
It's feet in few months il they only had
chance to administer some Of their nos.
trums. Atleast they Try to make people
think they could.
As the procession was passing through
the streets on Saturday night we heard an
old citizen give some Of his "reminiscences
ofIhCpanic Of 1887, especially with refer.
encc to its effect on this city. The panic
happened in 1887, and yet four years al.
terwarda, in the Spring OF lS41, said he,
You could scarcely see the sign Of lie on
our streets, and you could rent good
houses for merely taking care OF them.
The people had no work and many OF
them no bread. There was great suffer.
ing in the cities, Npd workingmen, then
as now, declaimed against the govern.
ment. The cry was then, as now, gold
and silver for one class and "rags" for the
rest Of the people.
1t was the Democratic party that then
had possession Of the government, The
former snb'Treasury order, requiring
that all dues TO the government should be
paid in coin, was in force, and It was the
target for the iercest dennnciatious Of
'Hch Speakers as Mr.. Randall. And yet
that measure has stood the test Of his.
tory and even the Wings of the olden
time have now nothing to say against il.
We are now in the 9th year since the
panic OF September Il, 1878. 1t is be.
lieVed that the country Fas seen the worst
and that business is once more on the up
turn. We look forward, however, to |
pretty hard winter, and to, perhaps, in.
creasing discomfort among the unem.
ployed. This is natural, and history only
repeats itself In these. occurrences. An.
other year promises to change the face Of
things and usher in new era OF pros.
petity. Then we shall see the present
discomfort gradually pass away as in
times past. Meanwhile We need not de.
luie ourselves that there is any way Of
escnpinga panic, for ii Is still Scriptural.
ly true that whatsoever men, as individu.
al'or asa whole people, SOW, that ehall
they also reap.
Further South.
The Presidents reception at Knoxville
and Atlanta was even more hearty than
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