Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-02-05
Be Patient and Wait


The pessimists and the Bryan element
Of the Democratic party are sneering
ut the failure Of better times PROM
issd under change Of the National Ad-
miuisirAtiou, aud seemingly End com
fort 10 The fast chat but little progress
IN that line has developed since the
election. OF course il is impossible to
please everybody, and some people will
not be convinced. however, strong and
conclusive the proof Such is the case
with a certain element of our people. |
They aie unbelievers in the doctrines Of
the Republican party, and nothing that
party can do in the way Of inaugurating
benign policies will have even the
semblance Of good, however, msritorious
they may be. The continued bard times
and depression in business are used as an
argument in support Of their false posi-
tioa Hard times still prevail. il is true.
and thereis not much revivalin business.
But, whyf Theanswer is plain and truth
full: Because no rev policies Of govern
ment have been yet enacted The election
Of Mckinley meant no change go Instant,
III our national laws his election was
only an evidence of the particular poll
eies that would be passed by the Nation
al Government upon the induction of a
Republican administration into power
Chat happy event bas not yet taken
place. The fact that there is a promise
Of sueh good fortune has had the effect
to restore confidence to the extent that
tie money market is easy, that capital
is no longer frightened and tremulous Of
investment, and that TIE large business
class of the country are showing will
inguess to venture their money, time
aud labor into new enterprises and into
new and untried industrial pursuits That
isallthat could reasonably expected. A
few bank failures have followed close
upon the hoeIs of the election, but what
do these show Z Nothing more nor less,
than that the institutions, crippled I'M
der existing laws and circumstances,
their resources would not hold out
until the enactment Of new laws
and the creation Of better oppor-
tuuities Financial wrecks for some
time past. the inevitable had to come and
did c9ms. aud no other logical deduction
can be made from the catsstrophes
Il see.as to US that it would be more
circumspect for even the variest crank 10
await the Inauguration of the new Pgesi
dent, before INDUCING in unseemly
sarcasm over few unavoidable misfor-
tunes at the expense OF a large majority
Of the people A large majority of the
people hope for better times under the
new regime and there is happy salts
faction in the hope, and they have implicit
faith in he belief that the management d
this government according to Republi-
can principles as enumerated IN the Ma
tional platform of chat party of 1896,
means prosperity and necessarily
happiness and it is short sighted
and cruel policy for even the most
irresponsible to be harping upon
present misfortunes Hope springs
eternal in the human breast. Conditions
therefore being distressing aud deplora-
Bile. as regards the business interests Of
the country under the Democratic ad-
ministration, and party lines and party
fealty being irreparably severed that a
change in governmental policies might
be inauguratsd and thereby prosperity
again revived, to say, that such boon
will not follow III the wake Of the H.
auguration Of a new administration into
power whose very being is predicated
upon such confidence would be making
of Us all set Of repreheusible unbeliey-
ers as culpabie from a moral standpoint
as the doubling Thomas of whom Scrip
tare tells. We must BE- patient, for it i
written, that all things come to those
who watt