Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-03-28

ana the counscls OF Its own experience.
This fatal passivity existed to some ex-
tent in all quarters, but was especially
prevalent in the Western strongholds
of the party. That section was begin
ming to experience the reactionary and
depressing effects of collapsed booms,
the keen needle OF sound financial sense
had probed the mutations of wild specu-
lation, and the vanishing of fictitious
values had ended rapid and unwhole-
some accumulations of fortune, and
brought all property down to the fixed
~permanency of actual worth. This re-
action, after all, was the. knife applied
to the extirpation OF abnormal and un
healthy growths, and the return of solid
prosperity, but the introduction of pea
nut politics. at this time so perverted
the Judgment and blinded the reason
OF many that they were unable to ap-
preciate the true state of affairs. Those
who were injured and wrecked in the
squeeze" were ripe for revolution and
were easily deluded by the misrepresen-
tations of the Democratic and Populist
oracles that the Republican doctrine of
protection, had wrought all the mis-
chief which their own ~improvidence
and lack OF sagacity had brought upon
them, and were lured by the siren
prophecy that the splendors of Arcad.
ian dream would follow a change of
policy and administration.
Cleveland enthroned, the Democracy
in full swing, No check on the reck.
lessness OF its undoings, what Il fiery
baptism OF revengeful fatel The long
tentacles of the Wilson Bill thrown
around every industrial enterprise from
ocean to ocean and from the lakes to
the gulf; confidence withered as an
Alpine flower in the hot blast of the
simeon; uncertainty, distrust and dread
l n every quarter, the unprecedented
surplus of American products shut out
from every market by the embargo of
unheard- OF low prices; furnace chin
neys the grim and ~smokeless monu
ments of utter d~esolation; the rust of
inactivity consum ng spindle and
wheel, and factories so silent that the
velvet slippers OF a cat would startle
the echoes; four millions of operatives
the helpness victims of enforced idle
ness, their dependent wives and child
rem in breadless homes grouped like
spectral shadows in the chambers of
death; money clutched in the grip fist
of the shylocks and mortgages foreclos
ing on farms, homes and the last rem
nants of a better fortune; the cities,
squalid nests of misery and want
Where marble mansion and "cloud kissing
spire
Give back back to the sun his same look of
fire."
beholdlng the vain efforts of sweet char.
ity to clothe the naked and feed the
starving, No hope from the earth be-
meath and nc bow of promise in the sky
above, and yet the brazen oracles of the
Cleveland propaganda coloring the i'm.
mediate future with hues as bright as
the CLEAN of sunlit waters. Appalling
concurrence of unexampled disasters.
Nero fiddling and dancing and Rome
wrapt in an ocean of flame"
If these distresses come in the green
leaf of Cleveland S first year, what artist
can paint the horrors in the dry of the
three years yet to come?
The people are aroused from their
stupor, the scales fall from their eyes,
and they begin at length to see, though
may be Through a glass darby" at
present, the fearful perils that environ
them, yet it will not be long before they
will lace the prolific cause of their mis-
fortunes with an unobscured vision.
The spell binders have lost their Gun
ming to b%ewilder, enchant and deceive.
Their roseate promises have turned to
the acrid ashes Of tue Dead Sea fruit.
Their golden prophecies of surprising
~affiuence and progress-singing foun
tains shaking their loosened silver in
the sun-have proved the clustering.
burning sand stretches of the desert
waste. The stuffed priest of all politi-
cal loneliness and purity has unmasked
himself as the champion wrecker of a
nation S hopes and resources.
There are many hopeful and crafty
ing evidences of a quickened public
conscience and understanding, and a
speedy return Of reason from british
beasts to hich it fled back to the higher
order to which it belongs. In the I'M
broken sweep of Republican victories
in the recent elections, there are un.
m~istakeable revelations of what the
people will do in 1896. The criminal
blunders, and incapacities of the Demo
cratic party to grapple with the serious
and complex problems Of government
and finance, which we have witnessed
for the last twelve months, havedemon-
strated beyond cavil that Democratic
supremacy is the shortest and most di-
rect road to national disgrace and the
utter extinction of all our material in
terests.
The Democracy is done for. Through
Cleveland and his bandits it has COM
mitted suicide. The ~obsequies will not
be very impressive. The season of
mourning will not be unduly extended.
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