Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-18
TRUST NO TRUST.

The following paragraph is from the
y. Y. Sun. and is fair specimen of the
sort of self-conscicus guilt disclosed by
Republicans and their accomplices
when they consider what they have
done to the country and its well-con-
Quoted citizens:
what does Governor McSweeney, of
South Carolina. mean by saying that
Eve are on the eve of II great indus
trial advance. in manufacture. educa-
ton, commerce and agricultural? Ii he
is Il genuine Democrat. he must believe
that the country is on the eve of per-
manent decline. bankruptcy. revolution
and ruin.
Having done all they could to enrich
themselves at the expense of Demo
Gratis. all other good people and the
country. the Sun and its clientele can
not understand how the United States
have escaped permanent decline,
bankruptcy, revolution ana ruin" nor
how n Democrat or other good Amcr-
can is cheerful, hopeful and even pros
porous. But it is in despite of Repub-
lcan machination and misrule that our
wonderful energy and boundlcss re-
sources have enabled us. not only TO
escape ruin, but to develop more or
less prosperity and steadily pursue the
progress that has made us Il great ma
ton. and Will doubtless make us the
grandest country ever known to man.
Robbed of our silver, deprived of our
currency, products deprecated in price.
labor in lessened demand ut reduced
wages, and nothing approaching but
gold and moncy,-we have Withstood IL
all, and our recuperatve powers have
been SO amazing as to defy the devil
and all his works and to "plucl-the
flower safety. from the nettle. danger"
But when Hanna -imperalism and
fraud had seized our government and
prostituted it TO the subversion of hui
man liberty; when all our popular
rights and interest were put at the
mercy OF mono-mciallism, trusts, mo-
nopoly, a banker Gagged currency and
consolidated capital-all in the hands
OF the same conspirators against COM
mon freedom and the general welfare:
every faithful patriot and honest cit
izen had ample cause for the gravest
apprehension. if not for despair.
Thanks TO foreign wars. famine, pes
thence and drought we have had
temporary respite from the stress OF
evil piled upon us. ana our own land
has come to the relief of its industrious
inhabitants, In spite of knavcs and
their evil schemes by yielding not only
its crops in abundance. but also its
treasures of precious metals in ,inwont-
cd quantity. Were the crops of Hanna
and his party, or Of any of their en-
crossing. monopolizing and self-ag-
grand.ns measures? Did single grain
germinate from criminal aggression"
or gold monopoly, or trusts, or bank
consolidation. or any of the tricks OF
trade? Did the earth yield its gold
anywhere to Republican policy or wis
dom? Nc. 1t was the people that
made the grain and developed the
metal. The banks the trusts. the wars.
gave us neither bread nor gold
though the last did to some extent
force a fairer distribution Of our own
public treasury than the plottcrs in.
tended.
THE N-PILOT has been
an outspoken and unwavering expo
ncnt of the people and the Democratic
party. as well as n faithful supporter
of William j. Bryan; its columns are
widely read and are open to all men:
and to-day it defcs any man TO show
that its charges against the Republi-
can party have not been true and are
not still true. 1T ASSERTS THAT
ALL MEN AND ALL PARTIES