Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-20
THE BETTER DAY.

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The occupation of agitators and revo-
lutions will be gone, those pernicious
%scoundrels who have reaped rich har.
vests for themselyesin sowing dragons
teeth broad cast over the land. This
cry of q fierce and relentless war be.
tween capital and labor will be hushed
The masses will have no time nor in.
clination to listen to the ratings and
accusations of those whose chosen mis-
sion in life is to inveigh against those
whose tact, energy and economy have
brought them ample competency. The
policy, that will be the dominant fea-
ture OF the incoming administration, is
a positive and emphatic assurance that
the long barred avenues to industrial
occupations will be thrown wide open
to the impoverished army of toilers.
We are sure of a return of general
prosperity and that business confidence
which is capital itself from the fact
that the Mckinley policy will be a 70.
bust continuance of that thoroughly
tested system of government that dou.
bled the wealth of the country in two
decades, and in this period every legi.
Innate enterprise lourished and every
man of energy aud ambition had all
the work he could do.
Our friends, who followed the i'll
starred banner of Organism, are dis.
posed to entertain a very gloomy view
of the future and to make us believe
that hard times will still hold the coun.
try in their grip, but these bowls of ca
lamity are only the echoes of their dis.
appointed expectations-the doleful
walls of the belated mourners around
the grave where Democracy was buried
last November.
The p%essimists, ito the contrary not.
withstanding," the country is on the
threshold of a new era of industrial &C.
tivity and honest commercial enter
prise. This era will bring with it more
varied our and enlarged opportu
mites. Capital is on the outlook fol
investments and men are eager to work
IL Is the duty of the patriot to cas-
aside the meaner things of party poll,
tics and hope and work for this better
day hat will usher in prosperity for al
sections and all classes. America nj
may honestly differ as to methods anG
measures, but when the enlightened
judgment of the whole people. that sci
dom errs, says that this, or that, or tn
other, should and must be done, die
agreements should vanish and the
popular verdict be recorded in legisla
ton. This cheerful obedience to the
behests of the people gives perm anency
and power to republican government
With the most solemn emphasis anC
the most pronounced determination the
people have declared for the continue
ton of that financial system unmarried
by a single defect or failure for the re-
storation of the tariff law, under which
the country attained the largest meas
ure of its prosperity. And President
Mckinley and the Fifty Fifth Congress.
will carry out their instructions to thu
letter.
Whilst all sec tions will be vastl,
profited by the revival of business, tn,
benefit to the South will be immeasur
able. Her u%nbounded natural wealth
is attracting universal attention. CAPT
tai has its eye upon her virgin forest
of valuable timber, her e~xhaustless de
posts of metal and coal, her majestic
water ways and advantages of soil anC
climate, and when assured of welcome
and protection it will not be slow il
locating and building gigantic enter
prises. Pre- 'eminently the South is thu
great field for the American farmer
artisan and capitalist, and they will HI
here in vast numbers when the condi
lions are made favorable to their com
ing.