Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-17
THE CALAMITY PRATTLERS.
A Singing Rebuke to Partisan Calamity
HoWlers.

From the Sunday Philadelphia Transcript
Rep.
The attitude assumed by the
Transcript has evoked consider
able discussion, and, in the main
our position. relative to the finan'
cial trouble and it's Immediate
cause, has been conceded to be wei
taken. Men of all classes have
agreed with us that the eemiapanie
of to-day is a senseless one, and has
been precipitated upon the coun-
try forpartisan purposes by a parti
san press. The panic peddlers have
unnecessarily alarmed the timid
and raised a corne in money-belts
and old stockings; they have also
created a silly scare in manufacture
ing circles in regard to the tariff
The tariff scare is as near c~auseless
as anything can well be. Tariff re.
form will certainly come: but there
will be no change in the tariff laws
that will disturb, to any appre~
ciable extent, a single legitimate
industry. Protection to a considers
able degree will always be mains
tanned.
The panic producers know, if
they known anythi e, that nc peo-
pie are SO timid as those who have
by hard work aud often by econ
omy bordering On penur1ousness,
saved a little money. They are ever
in fear of the proverbial rainy day.
At the first sound of alarm, with-
ont waiting to make inquiry. they
grow a distrust Of the banks and
saying funds They want to finger
their money, to look at and fondle
it. Who can blame them? 1t is their
little all; but who does not blame
those who, for their own base pur-
poses, epgendered the mistrust,
tostered the depression and ems
Outraged the panic! However, there
is a light in the window for our
erring editorial brethren.
There is still time for them to
make amends. Whether they will
show the requisite courage and
come humbly forth and say they
has sinned before the people and
against the arty their early rutuln
must disclose. There are multitu~
dinous opportunities offering now
for them to rectity the harm done.
Improvement is everywhere. Bank.
that were suspended have opened
their doors; mills that had bee shut
down are in active operation; suns
shine and gladness are banishing
the gloom and depression. Let the
carpers, the croakers and the mar
alls call attention in displayed
headlines and optomistic editorials
to the great betterment of affairs
let them be at least as eager te
build as to raze, and applause shal
be theirs-not loud nor long, a
first, because injuries cannot be
condoned at once; but if they con-
tinue to be truthful and keep on il
the good work the commencing
reclamation will increase in yol'
ume and forgiveness eventually
come. They have surely done harm
enough to be eagerly wiling anc
sufficiently brave to do a little good
To be sure, they cannot reclaim
all the votes they have lost Us will
their whitening walls and woefu.
weeps, but they al halt a gooe
many from going over to Mr.
Cleveland's party, and they Dug
| to do it.
Many of them have shown a con
trite spirit by unqualifedly indoors
ing the Presidents grand and glo-
rious message, and thereon we bass
a hope for further good from them
Brothers, come home; don't let the
light in the window fputter anl
| flicker out.