New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-18
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The couutrv seems to be getting used to il.
4 deadlock in Congress which practicali! pu's
a stop 10 all legislation is beginning 10 DC
viewed. if not with absolute satisfaction, WIN
NJ least paticnce and something like philosophlc
serenity Six months ago when Secretary tar-
Isle added 10 the embarrassments into when
,b. triumph Of the anti-Protccton Democracy
had plunged the country by suggesting the
n,vmcpt of Government obligations in silver,
the feeling in financial circles and among Dlsi-
ness men WIS that something should he done
jmncdiatci, 20 counterfeit the damaging chect
Of that experiment upon public credit and re-
store confidence 10 the business community
The President WAS urged To call an extra ses-
sion Of Congress ut the earliest possible mo-
ment TO repeal the Silver Purchase act, ana
bv that step assure foreign and domestic cred
itors that there WAS no danger OF the cs'aD-
ushmcut Of the silver standard and Il detrrio-
rated currency. The President and hrs closest
party friends and advisers insisted mat the
financial stringency and business depression
were due entirely to the operation OF the Sii-
yer law and not To disr,ist OF the party that
had Just come into power. Still the President
besItuted and procrastinatc1. and the situa-
lion kept growing worse every day. Most OF
the mischief had been done when the call for
the extra session was 'ssucd The tide did not
turn. but the dowuwanl tendency was mo-
mcnrarily arrested. The public continued TO he
impsticnt for some action on the part OF Con-
grcsS
Congress has now been ten weeks III srS-
sion. and The repeal OF the Silver law seems
further off than ever. The country * strewh
with the wrecks OF giant business enterprises
and shattered private fortunes; mills, manu-
factories and mines are closed the country IL
filed with laborcr, ont Of employment, aud at
the beginning of winter We NJ" looking lor
ward 10 a season Of prolonged hardship. priva
ton aud distress. such as our people nave not
known In thirty years With all this has come
settled conviction among Intelligent Dusl'
ness men that in existing conditions the long
delayed repeal of the Silver law will not effect
the improvement in the situation that WAS :"
confidently hoped by the President ana ms
advisers when the extra session was called.
II is beginning To he seen that the real trouble
is not 50 much lack of confidence arising from
the continuance Of silver purchases rs wide
spread distrust of the party in power and its
public confidence entirely. Recovery from the
shock Of the last six months must come slow
IT, and through economy. retrcnchment. cur
tallmcnt Of enterprise. restricted production
and consequent suffering and privation. What
is more important there can be no permanent
recovery until the party in power has either
reached the limit of its power for mischief or
has demonstrated its inability To carry out what
il has proclaimed to he its most cherished pur-
poses The country has now become accls'
toned TO the contemplation OF this situation.
The pcoplc if not entirely resigned to ii. are
becoming philosophic. They indulge the hope
that even if no immediate change for the bet
fer can be looked for ut least matters can be
no worse.
The general disposition is to make the best
of "A bad situation. Men naturally try TO adapt
| themselves to conditions from which there ap-
| pears TO be escape SO IL is not strange
now that the deadlock in the Senate seems 10
| be permanent, the ma jorty having practically
confessed themselves unable to get out of their
| tangc or make any progress whatever III hg's-
lation. that thoughtful persons are beginning
! TO inquire whether. on the whole, the discover!
which the party in power has made of It's own
weakness Is an unmixcd evil Suppose. they
are saying that the public mind becomes set
| tied in the conviction that the Democratic ma
| iority in the Senate is not only powcrlcss 10
carry silver repeal, but that the same causes
| which operate in that case will prevent us
passing any partisan mcaslrc that the meth
obs which are rcsortcd to for obstruction now
can be- equally successful I'm defeating the re-
neal of the Election laws or the enactment OF
u destructive tariff-what would be the ef-
feet: And it is the opinion Of many that IN
assurance that the hands Of the majority were
tied rs we'll on the tariff and the election laws
rs they are on silver repeal would do more TO
restore confidence than the passage Of the
repeal bill now under consideration. The peo-
n,c have had ten weeks Of this Congress-
Nothing that it can do would 60 so far to re-
store confidence rs the certainty that 1t could
do nothing.