The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-26

nnanclal and INDUSTRIAL measure, tnaJ
has been enacted to carry out the ma
tional policy. The party has been for
third of century an organized kick,
impelling its heels viciously, without
intelligence or discrimination, at every
act of the government. What sort of
school could such a party be for the
study of sound craftsmanship or the
equipment of safe statesmen?
Popular want of confidence in the
party has kept it so long out of power
that its leaders, even if they have had
the ability, have not acquired the habit
of true statesmanship; they have not
accumulated the experience that comes
to men engaged in the active admins
tration and burdened with the response
BILE duties of high public office. The
school of the kicker or the obstruction
list, who is ever kicker or an obstruc-
ZIONIST from motives of party policy or
partisan political tactics, is not the
school in which statesmen of high pur-
pose and pure patriotism are bred and
trained. In school of this kind the
living generation of political leaders
whom the democratic party blindly fol-
lows and esteems as statesmen was
reared. They are without experience
in the active, responsible administra-
ton of government they are without
the moral quality that comes from a
patriotic and conscientious performance
of public duty, they are debauched by
long continued political inidelity, they
have been the supporters and advocates
of everything that is unsound and hereti-
cal in finance and industry, and, under
the grossest of false pretenses, by the
means of pledges they cannot redeem
and which, FULFILLED, they are intelligent
enough to see would involve the coun-
try in ruin, they have persuaded the
people to put the party they lead into
full possession of every branch of the
national government. The democracy
is in power. This is what ais the
country. This is what has disturbed
foreign confidence, and at home has
caused halt in business. An admin
istration with free trade for the leading
plank in its platform, the record of the
party in power in congress, and the
well-known attitude of the great ma
jority of the congress that is soon to
assemble on financial questions, the
lack of experience in administration,
the absence of the moral and patriotic
quality in the consideration of public
matters, these, not the Sherman act,
are the fundamental causes of financial
disaster and the growing industrial
paralysis. The silver purchase act Of
1890 had been in force over two years
under republican administration with.
out disturbance of national credit OF
disaster 10 industry. What 80 suddenly
invested that measure with all the
powers of evil with which the demo.
Gratis and mugwumps are investing it?
Was it anything more than democratic
terror at the consequences of the victory
in November last, and the necessity fol
finding a scapegoat for the terrible out
come of democratic victory? The
wolf is simply snarling at the lamb be.
low him and charging the inoffensive
creature with rolling the waters he ha;
himself befouled. Republican prophecy
in the canvass of 1892 is fulfilled, anG
the reasonableness and wisdom of re
publican warning 10 the people at large
are justified.