The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-07
ICAUSE OF THE PANIC.
REV. THOMAS DlxoN'S ANALYSIS or
THE BUSINESS DEPRESSION.

New YoRK, Sept. 3.--Rev. ThomaJ
Dixon Sturned to his pulpit in Associa-
ton hall today after spending his vaca-
| ton hunting and fishing on the eastern
shore Of Virginia. He opens the fall
work with series Of morning sermons
| through September on "The Panic--Its
| Causes and Cure" He discussed this
morning it's Immediate Causes" giving
many points to show the utter absurdity
| Of the present scare. The txt chosen
was from Matthew XIV, %, "And was
afraid and went and hid thy talent"
It is q pitiable sight-a strong man
stricken with fear Tne husky breath,
the tottering knees and weak cry place
man, the king, In sorry plight before
the animals that mast look on with
smile. Fear is an ignoble passion.
It never lifts up. 1t always degrades.
To see whole community, whole ma
ton, quake with pusillanimous fear in
the hour of national prosperity is q sight
as much more ignoble rs the nation Is
greater than the man.
But the ignominy of a panic is the
smaller part of its disgrace. 1t is the
hour in which the brute asserts itself.
Man at once returns to the original herd
principle. He becomes an animal pure
and simple.
| A great theater building was packed
one night with people. A fool raised the
| cry of fire. It was false alarm. There
was no fire. There was no danger Of
fire. There was not even the smell of
fire about the building.
But o panic ensued. That is to say,
rational men and women suddenly went
mad with animal fear. Strong men
knocked weak women down and tram
pied them TO death. Shrieks, groans
ant curses, like the growl and snarl and
howl of cage of enraged apes, rent the
air. Great broad shouldered brutes
leaped upon the heads and shoulders OF
the surging mob and crawled and
fought their way to the pavement. One
wretch drew his knife and cut his way
through the struggling mass of men,
women and children, He'll reigned su
preme.
| Panic had reduced all to the level o.
the brute, and with his superior intel
ligence man outdid the brute, for to hi
claws he added the use of steel.
A sorry spectacle for humanity Ant
yet this is precisely the case in our panic
in the business world. That scene il
the theater is just as sane, just as hu
name, as the scene in the worlds ex
change in the hour of a money panic.
A hundred such theater panics are a
nothing in their results as compared witt
one week of commercial ruin. Let
, Christian nation understand It'll
A panic IS q relapse to barbarism. !
= Is more. II is a relapse to the lo,oeSt ele
ae7atS of bGrbdric life.
81 CowARDICE.
First-It is the yielding to cowardict
Man was created king.
Man Is savage in proportion to the dc
:, minion of fear over him.
The savage fears everything and ey
erybody. His condition is one of pur
agnosticism.
He does not know. He does not kno'
anything. Hence he fears everything.
Some people are proud Of agnosticisn
They spell it with big Aand bow dow
and worship at its altar. We are jul
now afflicted commercially with pun
agnosticism. Let our agnostic FRIEND
. take note. The simple trouble with e'
cry man is, he says he don't ka1oto. 1t
o case Of "I don't k1aOtc." What is IL
matter he don't know. What he
\ afraid of he don't know. If pure agno
ticism ruled the world, we would be
hell already.
1t is the hour of the coward.
"A No coward can inherit the kingdom
either the kingdom Of heaven or earth.
,e The children of Israel went over to 81
ut out the promised land. They brougl
h, back marvellous reports of its beaut
10 They said it flowed with milk and hone,
e They described its luscious fruits ar
,u bore back on their shoulders marvelol
I, specimens from its vineyards. But IL
81 spies declared that the land was inhabi
no ed by giants! They were fond of grap
ry and milk and honey, but if there was g
is ing to be a fight they preferred oniol
a and garlic plain. And they cried for oI
es IONS They said they were grasshoppe
~ compared to the men who owned the
ns magnificent vineyards. And they wer
They were afraid. They were strickt
with panic. And the only use &c
could find Of them was to use their bon
to fertilize the soil of the wilderne
while he raised mp new generation
tn men who knew not fear.
Banks boast of their strength-tht
boast of their high use to the commuI
~ ty-and yet in this hour Of riotous ne,
NJ they have been the first to sneak und
Ia cover. With pusillanimous whine of Sc
preservation, they have been among Il
first to crawl into their vaults and te
their patrons and creators to look o.
for themselves.
DO A FARMER AND HIS CORN.
We On the eastern shore of Virginia the
stands today one of the few beautiful q
homesteads of the past. Its fences q
y in repair. It's beautiful lawn, shad'
J by magnificent trees, is in perfect orde
It bears still the name given by
founder. Its broad acres remain inta
In the hands of the same family tod
II that held it in the past century. II
u neighbors are proud of its name al
~ beauty and they love to tell the story
no its founder, They say he was a man
ne noted character in his day. On &c
d: tain year there was great famine in d
X whole country. Corn sold at SO and
ca ca bushel and was difficult to get at tn
" price. The great barns Of this far
nd groaned beneath the burden of an unus
OF ally large crop from the previous year