Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-08-31
"TO BE, OR NOT 10 BE-"

1mpOI lilISS - upon No. -N~'>i
was our system of government
submitted to Il scvercr test than
now. We have a president who,
adopting the good old rcpubli-
can principle that the federal
government can of right exercise
the central power OF The republic
whenever it is necessary tor its
preservation or instrumentation
of any OF fits parts, ordered out
the militia to suppress disorder, /
against the earnest protest OF
Altgeld the Democratic governor
of Illinois, and other anarchists F.
who have gone So far into dlttu-
sivencSs as to be led by demo-
cratic tendencies even beyond
Cleveland. In this the president
stands we'll. Ii every other re-
spcct he stands i'll. Deserted,
disappointed, harrasSed, tired
and sick he is rcaping the results
of those discordant elements
which were sprOuted at the last
Democratic national convention,
unwittingly sOWn by the people
at the last election, and now de-
veloped and ripencd amid the
passions, preiudlccs and Jealous
les of angry leaders and heated
factions. This president and
party took the country amid all
the sounds and sights OF indus
try, progress, and enterprise and
plenty from the hands of an ad-
ministration which was III aC-
cord and was carrying out a
policy inauguratcd By Washlng-
ton, Hamilton, Jefferson and
Madison as principals, and which
had been the countrys thcrmonc
ter indicating its prosperity or
decline ever since the first tariff
act of 1889. They took possess
ion Of the government at a time
when ou: foreign relations had
been managed with rare skill, di,
plomacy and craftsmanship, and
when they were on 4 sound and
peaceful basis. Previous to this
these adventurous politicians
went wrangling into nationa
convention with no unity o
thought or purpose. II they haC
any ideas of old democratic form:
or beliefs they had no power tC
reconstruct them. Their politl
cal creed, if they had any, was ;
negative one, like the denial o
the existence OF the Supreme BE
ing. In inconoclastic rage the,
introduced one theory i'll the con
vcntion and then by bare ma
jority adopted another and wen
before the people and, strange tc
say, were endorsed. AndnoW il
less than a year after these dis
cOrdant elements have been ap
piled to the government OF tn
country its industries are par
alyzcd, its shops and tactoric
deserted, lonesome, 'disordered
and rusting and rOtting ami,
idleness and Stagnation of cap
tai. Local disorders whichever
the only stock in trade of the dc
mocracy in the last campaig
have run into one great mas
and are bursting forth in pre-
portions amounting nearly to
civil war, requiring the intcrver
ton of national troops to sta
the fury of the times. The part
now i'll power said to the peopl
1--WE possess the statcsmanshi
and legislators of the countr,
Your leaders are inCompeten
We know what the country r
quircs. We will take it as it
and restore Il just arrangemcr
Of individual conditions whic
will bring a peace and prosperit
that will Outrun your most a
dent hopes" And so the poop
gave it into their hands on tho,
terms. They were given full co,
troll OF both executive and legi
lative departments; and with
a year thereafter instead of II
grand march of progress adyc
tised the country is filled wit
marching armies of tramp
And when the people listen
hear the promised sound of i
dustry and look to see the hapI
weavers and spinners they d
cover the abodes of rats and mi
and weaving spiders and du
cold desolation. Instead
dreams in convention and ca
vass, through which the peoI
saw groups marching i'll g
professions, chanting the prais
OF fair adjustment, equality a
justice, born of democrat
utterances, they now see lor
files of desperate, ragged a
starving men, women and eli
dren crying for bread and
work.