The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-05-26
; Wanamsker's Wall.
Wilmington Star.

II cOHtraCIcu tOdef1Ser, IHdS prosperity
brand A No. I, and in big packages. Mr.
Wanamaker is somewhat of politician
as we have observed oFthe. Republican
persuasion, but he. iss beeiassassshe;to lose
faith in the men who are running the Re.
publican machine and hetfee the follow
ing wall from hissreetntt steesffat that
Business Mems CluBhinner in Philadel.
pliia:
"The country is not prosperous. Since
the outset of the LAST Presidential cam
paign the party press and political leaders
generally fixed the November election OF
1896 as the date of the beginning of good
times. A full half of the year has ex-
pired since the wifi Of the Republican
party was declared. Thus far but one of
the important issues of the campaign is
nearing settlement, and hardly any no.
ticeable improvement of the wretched
times is manifest. The tide will soon set
in strongly against the Republican party
unless the depression of business is al
tered. Id1eness and want breed bitter
which will never be overcome
until there are ample e1nployments.
"The foes America has to fear are not
the sullen, savage Turks nor the insur-
rectionists of Cuba, nor the territory
British, but they are our patient
and heart-tired people our own suffering,
much-pronlised people, who. betrayed
and disheartened, 10 longer have faith in
their party, and will turn to any leader
ship that offers promise of better times,
believing that worse TIMES cam never come
than those now existing. It.is terrible
thing to observe public sentiment .adrift
and ai1captafned; and the people sweep
ing away ffoah; Their affection to tile old
party
This is;a;i rasher remarkable utterance
ffonf Republican who has been high up
in the councils of his party and was a
pretty high contributor of the persuasive
medium which the Republican
carhraissan engineers fiji soe useful. in
election times. He is credited with haav-
ing dropped couple hundred thousand
dollars into the jackpot fol- Harrison, in
recognition Of Which Harrison made him
Postmaster General. We mention this
incidentally to show that he was not lack
ing zeal as thorough going Republican.
He supported Mr.. Mckinley and we
have no doubt Clipped in pretty freely
when the Hanna hat was passed around,
and was in sufficient accord with the party
after the election to strike for the seat in
the United States Senate which Don
Cameron intended to vacate. He did
but another fellow nearer and more to
Boss Quayss liking knocked him out
Perhaps this may have had some Influence
irr trnfhnbering his tongue ara. making
lliia speak thes thoagsalssss this 'wesfea Ae in
him ofths oteasfoH of that lay out.
But whatever the inspiration he gave
liseefaASe 70 some ufrvarnished truths.
Before the election and all through the
the Republican stu1npers and
writers declared that all that was neces-
sary to bring prosperity back to the coun-
try was to put the Republican party back
into power and it would come right along;
that was all it was waiting for. 1t was
pouting and wouldn't. come back while
the Democrats were in power, for they
drove it out with that pesky Wilson tariff.
They trotted VIM. Mckinley: out wearing
tag marked ''the advance agent of pros
perity," which he seemed to be proud of,
for he smiled with an innocent; child
hike smile, and assentingly bowed when
fhe prophets predicted the prosperity
which weuid follow on his heeis.as soon
ashe was eiacted. Mr.. Mckinley did as
much as any other man in his party to
create that impression and is as much
responsible for the deception and disap-
pointment as any of them. He had as
much to say about "smokeless chimneys.
idle Wheels" and all that sort of thing.
as any of them. 1t wasn't the opening
Of the mints, but the opening of the mills
That we needed, and that's what thew
we're going to do for us when they got in.
What squirt they made and how they
exulted when some of The mills did tenn
porarily resume after the election. The
which had been waiting had
come, they declared, according to promise
and on schedule time, without any law
overs on the way. But they were too
for it was only some DELAYED
and hung up orders that it came to fill
having done which it retired clear out of
sight and couldn't be found with heav.
sr-sweeping, earth-searching telescope
That's about the way that tongue-loosened
|ohn Wanamaker sees it.
Mr.. Wananaker is not only a politi-
ian, but he is business man, and while
IS Republican politician he is DESTROYS
If the return of prosperity, he is even
more DESTROYS as business man, for as
business man dealing with the peeple
md dependent for his prosperity on the
prosperity efthe people he feels the pinch
II hard tifnes5 and shares in the d;san-
continent at the failure Of prosperity to
,ome as so confidently predicted and
PROMISED But John Wanamaker is: no
he is shrewd man who carrie.
pretty wen constructed head ures his
'houlders. and it would be a rejection
'i'o1 has Intelligence to suppose that he
,ehevefthssep RsdictH5as or attached anv
Importance to these promises, which; he
veil knew were made for campaign Dur.
'oses and to which he assented for that
easo's, HI. wxssin full sympathy with
he bsssfee gsAss theyswefe playing.
hs an observant, intelligent cuisines.
nan he knew there was hitting IN the
onditions ard nothing in the ouyJo to
variant these predictions and psresnsf.<.. |
,as Nike SOME Of the others he f1sns.a
here might be some unexpected sum -ofi
ne wheel which would better the ooud;.
IONS, and hence he, with them, took the
haiees' An an intelligent btisihess man |
e knows that increasing the rates of tar
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