Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-09-08
WHAT WE HAVE GAINED AND WHAT WE
HAVE ESCAPED.

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Providence has 80 ordered the seasons
that there win be an immense surplus
crop in the United States and q serious
shortage in many denselv populated
foreign countries. The United States
will be a heavy seller and these short"
countries heavy buyers. This will,
cause a big balance of trade In our
favor.
This favorable condition will Ger.
tainly turn loose the coffered wealth
of the country, aud in so doing re.
energize it's long idle labor and revive
its languishing enterprises. Every
movement of the craft of toll will be
timed to the concert Of the whirring
spindle, humming wheel and grooming
engine. Every industry will respond
instantly to the impulses of a new
commercial life and the country reach,
almost at a bound, the highest point of
the gauge Of prosperity and indepen.
dence.
All this and much that is as good
and much that is better.will and must
come to pass, IL the law of demand and
supply, as memorable and inviolable
as the law that governs the empire of
matter, is permitted to control the con-
duct Of our new business. But IL the
old vicious order of booms, corners,
fictitious values, nonentities in trade
and gambling In futures is to hold
sway, we may expect q continuance OF
business uncertainties and fears and
the disastrous opportunities of the few
to suddenly acquire fabulous fortunes
to the undoing and distress Of whole
communities.
A man should be encouraged and
protected in the honest acquisition OF
wealth, especially when that wealth ia
used properly and the methods Of ac-
cumulation afford employment and
comfort to others, but when he makes
a conscienceless cunning, confiscatiop,
robbery, oppression and repression ad.
minister to his greed he then becomes
a social octopus and ought to be put in
chains. This is popular liberty in its
broadcast and most refined sense and
should be law.
But to recur. The evidences are
convincingly strong on every side thai
the worst is over; that prosperity, be.
lated by Democratic obstructionists, is
really here and waiting for a royal
welcome into American mills, facto.
ries, workshops and homes.
The Democrats charge that the Re.
publicans claim credit for the Provi.
Dental dispensations that are bringing
about the happy change in u bust.
ness conditions. This is not even good
nonsense. All the Republicans claim,
and they have truth to support the con.
tention, IS that the wise aud patriotic
trend Of McKinley's administration
has not only made it possible but easy
for the American people to seize and
make the most of the advantages af.
forded by their bountiful harvests. A
currency system OF safeguarded stabil.
ity and a vigorous maintenance Of the
American doctrine of Protection to
American industries have opened up
the highway, over which General Pros.
perity, in stately grandeur and under
triumphant banner may lead the
emanciapated and rejoicing millions
Of American laborers.
II the wild decisions of free silver
and free trade had prevailed In the
election of ''the Boy Orator Of the
Platte" the overflow ing'treasure gath.
cred from our grain fields would have
beer reduced to naught by a deprecia.
ted currency and the obliteration Of the
national revenues.