Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-15
"Panic-MOngering."

For various reasons business has
been very dull for the past three
months. Money has been scarce
credits have been contracted large
firms have suspended operations ;
banks have failed. So general is
the depression, that it has become a
matter of news. Newspapers have
been filed with bad news of bust
ness for weeks.
Republican newspapers have re-
ceived and printed the same news as
is furnished their democratic rivals.
Not only this, but they have dared
to go farther and call attention to
the fact that present conditions are
radically different from those which
existed last year, and the past few
years. They have been bold
enough to intimate that, possibly,
the change is due to the fact that
the government is in the hands of a
party reckless in assertion and
revolutionary in aim. They have
gone farther and taken the trouble
to quote few plain, honest facts TO
back their assertions. And because
they have dared to do all this, the
democratic press has arisen as one
man and shouted "Traitors Panic
mongers Calamity-howlees /! Cease
your nefarious business, and be
patriotic !" If the democratic press
had not been doing business at that
same old stand for many, many
years, the REPUBLICAN would have
been tempted to exclaim: "The
gall! !" As it is, we must sigh and
learn to look at Jefersonian demo.
cracy as one of the many ills flesh is
subject to in this world.
But, in oil seriousness, the RE.
PUBLICAN would like to ask demo.
cratic newspapers question or two
about "panic-mongering." When
the Homestead strike was on last
summer, and the New York World
declared editorially that the strike
was an evidence of the misery and
ruin wrought by republican misrule,
was not the World dabbling a little
in panic mongering itself? When
last fall, the World and the Phila-
delpha Times and other papers OF
the kind were preaching the doctrine
of suffering, starvation, oppression,
degradation, and sought to make
the people believe they were being
driven to the edge Of a precipic e
and the verge of panic by republi.
can McKinleyism, were they not dip.
ping brush in the horrid pot of
panic-mongering q? And again,
when democratic papers sought to
array class against class and told
the wOrkmen at Homestead they
were justified in going to any ex-
treme in their fight against the
''robber barons," were not those
same papers urging and advocating
treason ? Yes, they were, and to.
day, If Benjamin Harrison were
president instead of Mr.. Cleveland.
those same papers would tumble
over each other in the mad race for
epithets and headlines violent
enough to hurl at Republican lead.
crs! Geese fly far sometimes, but
they always come home to roost.
Republican newspapers believe
Mr.. Cleveland represents policies
tending to unsettle business busi-
ness men think 80, too, and we see
the result. That result republican
papers have pointed to as vindi.
cation of their stand. Believing as
they do, they are laboring to the
end that the political misfits now in
power will be returned to the shaded
walks of domestic life, for four wears
hence. And they are fighting fair
1y. They are not calling Mr. Cleve.
land and his advisers anarchists.
robbers, receivers of stolen goods.
etc. They are calmly pointing to
facts.
Democratic newspapers should
cease their bowling and find ont
where the hurt is. They have
fought to gain responsibility in
government for the last 80 years.
Now they have won it-why do
they not proceed to fulfil the solemn
obligations we have heard so much
of from the lips of their heavy
weight leader. instead of hollering
to republicans, "stop making faces
Mt us ?"
Gentlemen, In the flowing speech
of your captain, it is condition
md not theory which confronts
you. What are you going to do
about it