Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-04-11
WHAT A

Democracy is the dark, deep tragedy
of American history. Republication
is the grand epic of American civiliza-
ton. The one brought the crime of
disunion, the desolations of war, affairs
of sacrifice and senic horrors, q three
billion debt, a b~ankrupting fiscal pol
icy, the assassination of American in
dustries and the impoverishment of
American wage earners. The other
rescued the Nation from the red hand
of violence and reformed its disordered
integers, gave us an unfailing guaran-
tee Of peace and protection and a cur
rency whose stability and value is the
wonder of the financial world, built
upon wreck and waste a prosperity
beyond the dreams of avarice" and
the magic of the Midas hand made the
national debt an unfelt burden, PEN
stoned the heroes who fought and fight
ing saved, fostered factories and multi
piled them by thousands, placed COM
Portable homes, happy surroundings
and a glorious future within the reach
of willing and ambitious toll, and ele
waited the wage earners to a proud mob
ility in the true Democracy of q pure
manhood.
The Wilson bill is the crown sheet of
the towering pyramid of Democratic
iniquities. The malignancy of sectional
hate could not have invented q more
potent instrument of national desola.
ton. The blindness of perverted judg-
ment could not haqe sanctioned a curse
more alarming in its portents and more
sweeping in its dreadful details. 1t is
an armed assault upon the country's
manhood, womanhood and childhood.
1t is a death dealing foray of churches,
farms, schools, newspapers and every
citadel of the Nations strength and
glory. 1t has broad casted dragon q
teeth all over the land, from every one
of which has sprong the form and shape
and insatiate rapacity of a monster of
evil. The bare threat of the abomina-
ton was a paralytic stroke to the body
polite" and CONCEALED at once the life.
tide of the Republic in it's every artery,
The universal concert of enforced idle
ness closed factories and machine shops
as quickly and simultaneously asif the
application of steam and electricity az
motive powers had suddenly become
an extinct science. Necessity consum.
ed invested savings, and idle hands,
stretched forth for help and %sustenonce
in new directions, grasped mockine
emptiness. Enterprises. whose building
required uncomputed capital and years
and years of patient toll and industry
stood in the gathering dust and rust
and s~epulchral dismalness of silent in
activity. And so the panorama Of
Democracy unfolds its cen of desc
%lation, in every n Of which can be
seen starvation entering the homes Of
the unemployed and sitting its gaunt
and shivering skeleton down amid the
CHASTITY wreck of their contentment
happiness and abundance. If there il
an object lesson in the drama of any
Nations disasters more pathetic and al
the same time Hore shameful, open the
portfolio of its pictural woes and let vi
see it.
The Mckinley law was the crystal
ization of the ripest thoughts and mos
advanced ideas regarding national
growth and development. 1t came Il
fulfill the prophecies of a keen sighted
sagacity, after a long series of practi
cal Investigations and successful ex
periments. 1t was reserved for the
Governor of Ohio to clear away the
cruditics that always hamper and delay
a grand projectof any kind and to com
pact these thoughts and ideas into ar
equitable and simplified system.at onct
effective and beneficient. A new life
vas infused into the country, and il
leaped forward into a magnificent pros
perity with a stride that excited the
envy and admiration of the world
Capital was bold without the daringof
recklessness, crops found an easy snd
remunerative market, manufacture
were multiplied by the thousand, wager
far exceeded the necessities of tht
working classes, comfort and luxury
were common in every home, and insti
buttons of learning were crowded tt
overlooking. There was nothing X
hurt or destroy in all the holy temple
of the Republic. Every prospect pleas
ed and only man was vile."
What mean the revolutionary major
tiles which have gloriied the cause o.
protection SO recently? Hope and pride
reason and good sense are returning tt
the people, they see this contrast with
out the least obscurity of vision, anC
taking time by the forelock" they arr
making ample preparations for an I'm
precedented demonstration when they
lay 1.-THE star-eyed goddess" under th,
roses with nc hope nor possibility o.
her bursting cerements of her lowly
tomb.
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.