The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-30
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CAMRRoN,s SPEECH.


the respect due to one who has served
long in public life, and whose business
career gives him special authority on
financial questions. And we cannot
refrain from again protesting against
the tone of the criticism Of Cleveland
Democrat and Cleveland Republicans
upon those who DO not believe that
the legislation Of thirty years should
be set aside in an hour at the demand
of Wall Street iobbers, and a helpless,
blind and discredited Administration.
It is neither good manners nor good
politics to speak of Senator Manderson,
for instance, as "silver thief" or
A'robber" because he is not in accord
with Mr.. Carlisle upon question Of
currency. We might say a word in
regard to the assaults upon Senator
Stewart, ,as a"crank" and a"filibuster."
Senator Stewart, however, is not a
Republican. He was elected under
the compact made between the Demo-
Gratis and the Wes stern Populists when
Mr.. Cleveland's friends were bidding
for an alliance with the world the
flesh or the devil. And so far as the
"filibustering" is concerned, Mr..
Stewart merely initiates the tactics by
which Mr.. Randall in the House, and
subsequently Mr. German in the Sen
ate, defeated the Republican eff rts to
assure honest elections in the South.
An old sin returns to plague its invent
ors.
There never was colder question
before Congress than the present-never
one that invited calmer inquiry. And
yet none since the war has been de-
bated with more warmth. The tone
Of the New York press, the shrieks
and the howls, the invective and the
bravado, reminds us of the pro-slavery
press when the Union was dissolved
every morning unless we recognized
the immaculate value of property in
slaves. There can be no honest, whole.
some discussion in such articles as we
read in so many of our papers. Senator
Cameron receives the severest treat
ment, and it would not surprise us to
read that his address on Monday was
but a prelude to long, conceived
scheme of highway robbery. To be
called respectable baudit-a train
robber, for instance-would be a COM
plimeut compared TO much of what we
read in the New York press in regard
to the Senator. We repeat that this
invective makes honest, wholesome
discussion impossible.
Senator Came ron realizes that the
root of our trouble is not in the Sher.
man bill. The cry against it cam
from Wall Street. 1t was a cry in
spired by stock iobbers, carrying shares
heavily sodden with water In an
emergency 1t was taken up by Mr..
Cleveland Mr.. Cameron might have
strengthened his position on this point
by dwelling upon the fact that the
present year has been the saddest
known in England for a generation in
the way of bankruptcies and shrivel.
ed industries. To attribute these
English troubles to the Sherman bill
is as slovenly an argument as to hold
it irresponsible for similar calamities in
the United Stateg, The cause is deep
er than politics. Legislation will not
cure it. Bad government has aggra-
waited it. Under a wise, conservative
rule like that of Mr. Harrison The
panic would have been stayed, the
evil gently bnt firmly rooted out, and
the country led without tremor or jar
towards accustomed prosperity. I'M
happily, as we shalt feel to our sorrow
for many a year and day, that
rule bad passed away. I'm its place
came panic, inspired by an appre.
hension justified by the incompetency
of Mr. Cleveland's financial advisers
And in nothing is this so painfully
shown as in the leadership of the
Cleveland forces in the Senate.
Mr.. Cameron shows his regard for
these young, patriotic states in the
West which have been stricken down
at the critical stages Of theii
growth, at the time when they
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