The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-10-01
The Effect Upon business Interests.

The favorite argument against n change
of administration Is the injury that VIII he
done to the business Interests al the country.
TO listen to the SpeechcS and To read the ar
ticles lDon this subject it might be inferred
that the country was really in the keeping ot
the Republican party, and would - straight
way TO ruin if not looked after by lis candi-
dates. Milton described an eclipse as
shedding disastrous twilight ON half tie
nations and 1rifh fem 81 cacy1ge perpleXinG
monarchs," ont an eclipse wa never hair
such bugab0O as the probable election OF
General Hancock. if we are to Judge from
what we read IN Republican papers. Those
who write and talk such stun must have
very low opinion Of the TOOA sense OF tie
people of the United States fur they know
very well that the fact is the country gets
along Is wen as il does in spite Of the p0liti-
clans. and not because of their protecting
care Two or three very plain propositions
will dispose OF the prctence SHAT the success
Of any party is essential 30 our welfare
First The men who constitute the 1d
ministraton to-day, with one or TWO eEceF-
tionS, never had ability enough 90 manage
their own business in such . way rs 20
greatly distinguish themselves, and " NJ.
Hayes never became anything more thau
second Cy third rate lawyer IN a small city
like Cincinnati It is absurd to suppose that
by making him President he could he forth
with made capable q! controlling the busi-
ness interests of the whole country. NiT.
EvaTtS was, of course, OF q higher grade
but, after All, he was pretty accurately dtS-
cribed bv the late Judge Grier as "a mere
sentence moNgCr.' NJ. sherman has shown
fair business capacity in EiS own affairs, hat
there are Gftv men on Third street and
twice fifty ON Wall street who are his su-
perioTS. and there is not one OF the rest Of
them who could get half the salary in any
private corporation he now receives II Is
HackuFVpd quotation of the saving Of Chan
celloT OXpnStieTu eco, my SON. and see
with what little wisdom the world Is govern
ed" But the greatest lack Of wisdom IS ou
the part of the governed when they come 10
think they owe everything to their rulers &;
for, certainly, if the men in office ave Hut
SucceeeGcd in private life, It Is folly tA sup
pose thdt they are any better capable to
manage the affairs Cf other people. II the
country really needed 60 be taken care OF it
would be in a bad way Ia such hands. But,
luckily, the great American people have il
and themselves in their own Keeping, and
il they wish to change THEN -eryauts-uot
their rulers-they need not and viii not be
afraid to do it,
Second. If all our present prosperity is
due to the Republican party, hoN does IT.
happen that in 1873, when he panic occur
red, and during the long years OF the steady
decline in values thereafter, the Eepuh.ican
party, having fuil control oi al departments
Of the Government, did not arrest the dcpTe-
citation ana ruin. anu restore confidence and
prosperity - And why was it that it was not
uuti lie Democratic party had acquired
control Ot the House OI Representatives that
there was q check to the faii, AMI not uutii
it had secured tie Senate tlia rra ctjpn s,.t IN .
If we were to judge 0y the order OF events,
we might say ,hc Republican party w.S Tn-
Spgi~lbe for t!5r breakdown ~ 1873 and tEp
Democrats entitled To- the credit Ut tHc r-Ni
va of business which began t. show Itself is
1875 and fairly set I'm by 1879 aUi ,hu truth
IS that this, too, would be absurd. The adj
vance in prices which Is sonnet iUr~ mi~tl.
ken for prosperity, went ON AL over tEC
world til. 1873, aud the decline was equally
universal till 1873, and for these genera
movements up aad down neither party Is Te
SpGuSi BILE
Third II doe, not follow, however. thai
it Is q matter OF indifference to lU~iUcsS mel
whether one paTtyor the other gels in. Tie
mania for railway building, stimulated 2N
imprOvidcnt land grants, had much to q,
with the unnatural high prices Of 1872 ant
the completeness Of the collapse That follow
ed the next year, ana the miS-oVcTGHleu u
and piundcJiug Of the Southern Stite5 from
$50 TO 1876 delayed the restoration OF pros
periJy i'm that section. Tie Republican
policy was certainly fairly tested down there
and il we are to believe the accounts Civei
By Republicans themselves. il only led to tin
robbery and massacre OF ihC uPg-spS 'Tha
policy was given mp four years ago, and d,
common consent good order NOW prevails
the negroes are well paid ana wei fed. aut
while we hear a great deal about the vhea
crop making resumption possible. the valit
Of the cotton exported Is almost equal {,
That OF both wheat and Huur-S2i2, ,GlB. 90
last year, as against 3Dout S22J. 01o- -O0e -aut
if it had not been for Republican misIuie il
THE South, we might have had 1.-THE go0t
times year Or two sooner. Fortunately
what has been done iu the South canrot lr
undoGe, and there Is no great chance 70
mischief lett. Upon the whole, therefore
we DO not think 1t greatly matters wEethe
..Ona half-dOZtH Of men OF another sit arauu,
the Cabinet table in NaShn gtOu during th-
next four years. 50 long as prices keep 20
ing up, the people viii think themselve
prosperous, and when the turn comes, fou
or five or ten years hence, they viii tain
that the world has come to an end again
bUu whether they are to be rich OF poor, sac
ceSsiul or unfortunate, will depend upol
then own conduct. If they wish to be RaT
ny, they must be yirtuOus, and that is q
there is about it.