San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-16
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at that, and what is worse, it has
not realized how woefully it is
out of sorts-out of plum and out
of tune. The country imagines it.
self to be in robust health, If 1T
could only get the Sherman act re-
pealed out of hand, without any
conditions tackled on to it, like
tin can of pebbles tied to the tail Of
a rural dog, on the occasion of his
first visit to city OVerrun with
mischief-lOving urchins.
The political doctors have Who'll
| ly disagreed in their diagnosis OF
the ailment Of the country. DR.
Cleveland, with imposing rOtun-
dity of paunch and the knowing
ness of an owl, has said the trouble
grew out of the enforced purchase
of silver bullion, and nothing
would relieve the engaged national
liver, but the instantaneous and
unconditional repeal Of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act.
Three-fOurths Of the political doc
tors of his own school fatty con-
tradict him and tell him he is a
quack. Drs. John sherman and
Tom Reed say the Sherman act
had no agency in producing the
monetary panic and the financial
cOstiveness that followed; but
that the threat to knock the
Mckinley tariff out of the ring
was the prime cause of the ffnan-
cial furry. But if the Sherman
act was repealed, the sickness OF
the country wOuld>remain and the
patient would still have to keep
his bed. If silver coinage
should be provided for on a
basis satisfactory to all hands and
the cook, the country would still
languish in sickness and need hot
bricks to its feet and Alternative
medicines.
"What the devil does this fellow
mean by this high-falutin jargon.'
Well the disease of the country is
more deeply seated than the doc
tors imagine-it is not superficial
or functional; but it is organic and
is gnawing at the vital organs
Political bossism has Slapped the
strength of the country. The ware
boss, the county boss, the city anC
the state boss have run politics
J and turned them into machine
|, The people have been sickened anC
, disguised with parties and party
|, politics, and have cast their blink
|, ers aside. Wageworkers are draw
! Ing more closely together, anC
growing more and more bitter to
wards plutocracy. and capitalism
! Much of this hostile feeling is un
: founded and wrong, but its eX
istence is an undisputed fact
The farmers have kicked out
of the party traces and set up
! party of their. Own-a ricketty
wheeling, squalling, misbe gottcr
and misshapen monster, it is true
but for all that, the hayseed fal
. down and worship it. All the dis
appointed and sorehead politician:
alb the theorists, cranks, pessi
mists and political changlings have
fiocked into the Third party
mounted the box and seized the
reins. 1t Is a difficult job for an in
experienced hand to drive skin.
hand team over mountainous and
winding road. | cOncede honesty
of purpose to the farmers, they
mean well, but they arr misguided
and infatuated to most remarka-
BILE degree, for, on no other suppose
ton, can we account for their adj
vocating paternalism in it's broad
est form. The farmers make the
common mistake of ascribing to
hostile legislation the effects OF
drouths, floods, storms, late frOsts
in Spring and early frosts in the
Fall, short crops and low prices
They ascribe to the government the
ruinous effects of their own neg.
lect to raise everything in the
shape Of food, and of their want OF
frugality-the mother of wealth.
Then we have in our country, an
army of Nihilists and Anarchists,
who are the enemies of peace, or
der and stable government, and
who prefer confusion, change and
revolution. The country is honey
cOmbed by these mOrOse fanatics,
Ishmaelites and desperadOes.
Then, there are fully 100000 able
bodied men, who have determined
to subsist without work. These
men are without homes, without
ties, without an aim in life, unless
escape from work be an aim. These
tramps must not be cOnfOunded
with working men, who have been