Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-14
MALIGNANT MALlGNERS.
AnArchistie Methods Of ConscienesIes
Republicans.

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Republican,.
Those malignant partisans who say
that current financial disorders are due
to the election of democratic presi-
dent should know that men of sense re-
gard their behavior as atrocious. These
desperate politicians are to be classed
with the man who raises false alarm
of fire in q crowded hall or hurls q
dynamite bomb into a thronged street.
They are doing their nefarlous work
mostly in the small towns and cities,
doing their utmost to brighten the peo-
pie, incite runs upon what are called
the Country banks" and force the
withdrawal of city balances in prepare
ton for the panic they are trying to
create. Having taken good care of
themselves they are industriously en-
gagged in the effort to inf1ict losses and
bring ruin upon others for the sole pur-
pose of gaining party and personal adj
vantage. They are comparable to the
man who fires store in order that he
may steal goods in the confusion.
These men know perfectly well that
and congressional is, the majority of
the American people who did the elect
ing-did not originate or hasten the
crisis through which we are passing.
The crisis of 1878 occurred when the
publican party was in power and
when it had been in full control OF
every branch of the government for
twelve years, and the country did not
recover for Ave years. In 1854 there
was crash which seriously affected
New York and other eastern cities and
which threatened to involve the entire
country. That, too, occurred during q
republican administration. Less than
year afterward Cleveland took the
helm at Washington, and. notwith-
standing the predictions of dire dis
aster by the same brand of parti-
sans that are now crying calamity, the
country enjoyed uninterrupted and in
creasing prosperity until after the cleo
lican in both houses Then came an
other eastern collapse, and a general
panic was narrowly averted.
These political and financial coinci
d-nces are or ought to be perfectly well
known to politicians of every name II
they justify the conclusion that there
is relation of cause and effect between
politics and panics they must justify
the conclusion that republican party
policy causes panics. And in truth the
policy of imitation by emp
tying the treasury, even to the fund
deposited for the redemption of bank
notes and by issuing S5o,0oo,ooO Of
treasury notes in payment for silver
bullion, and the republican policy OF
industrial stimulation by increasing
protective duties, have done much to
bring about the artificial conditions
which have ended in the present de-
The republican politicians
who are now doing their worst to scare
people are not ignorant of these things.
They know that the finances are as
safe under. Cleveland as they were un-
der any republican president who ever
sat in the white house. They know
that our industrial. prosperity and the
in stocks, continued for months
after the election of 1892, prove conclu.
sively that the business public had no
fear of a democratic congress or of the
of change in economic
policy. They are striving to spread
alarm merely for party and personal
ends, and in SO doing they exhibit
in the character of enemies,
not of the democratic party, but of the
American people.-Chicago Herald.