Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-09-23
MALIGNANT MALlGNERS.
Methods of COnscIenceIess
Republicans.

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Republicans.
Those malignant partisans who say
that current financial disorders are due
to the election of a democratic presi-
dent should know that men of sense re-
gard their behavior as atrocious. These
desperate politicians are to be classed
with the mar who raises n false alarm
of fire in Il crowded hall or hurls a
dynamite bomb into a thronged street,
They are doing their nefarious work
mostly in the small towns and cities,
doing their utmost to Brighten the peo-
pie, incite runs upon what are called
the country banks" and force the
withdrawal Of city balances in prepare
ton for the panic they are trying to
create. Having taken good care of
themselves they are industriously en-.
gagged in the effort to inhict losses and
bring ruin upon others for the sole pur.
pose of gaining party and personal adj
vantage. They are comparable to the
man who fires a store in order that he
may steal goods in the confusion.
These men know perfectly well that
the election of a democratic president
and congressional is, the majority of
the American people who did the elect
ing-did not originate or hasten the
crisis through which we are passing,
The crisis of 1873 occurred when the
republican party was in power and
when it had been in full control Of
every branch of the government TO,
twelve years, and the country did noa
recover for five years. In 1884 there
was a crash which seriously affected
New York and other eastern cities ana
which threatened to involve the entire
country. That, too, occurred during a
republican administration. Less than
a year afterward Cleveland took the
helm at Washington, and, notwith- |
standing the predictions of dire dis
aster by the same brand of parti- |
sans that are now crying calamity, the
country enjoyed uninterrupted and in.
creasing prosperity until after the cleo |
ton OF Harrison, with a congress repub. |
llcan in both houses. Then came an
other eastern collapse, and a genera,
panic was narrowly averted.
These political and financial coinci. |
dences are or ought to be perfectly well |
known to politicians of every name. II
they justify the conclusion that there
is a relation Of cause and effect between
politics and panics they must Justify
the conclusion that republican party
policy causes panics. And in truth the
republican policy of imitation by c,nn.
tying the treasury, even to the fund
deposited for the redemption of bank
notes and by issuing $50, OOO, 900 of
treasury notes in payment for silver
bullion, and the republican policy of
industrial stimulation by increasing
protective duties, have done much 70
bring about the artificial conditions
which have ended in the present de.
rangement, The republican politicians
who are now doing their worst to scare
people are not ignorant of these things
They know that the finances are ne
safe under Cleveland as they were nm.
der any republican president who ever
sat IN the white house. They know
that our industrial prosperity and the
advance in stocks, CONTINUED for months
after the election of 1899, prove conclu.
siveiy that the business public had no
FEAR OF d democratic congress or of the
consequences of a change in economic
poncy. They are striving to spread
alarm merely for party and personal
ends and in SO doing they exhibit
themselves in the character of enemies,
not OF the democratic party, but Of thu
american people, Chicago Herald.