The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-16

century? Can any mer. not insane
dare to do such things? Have political
corruption so gangrened the hearts of
b money power, and their greed and
lust for power and money so posses
sed them that they are willing to ruin
a great country, and bring a panic
upon 76,0OO.0O o Of people in order to
continue their ravenings n spolia-
lions of the people?
But car they be serious in their
threats? Are they capable Of such un-
mitigated deviltry? a they precipi-
tate ruin at will? The will to ruin
may exist. but perhaps the power to
do so is not in proportion. 1t is to be
hoped that If ever Bryan sha be cleo
shall not be able to SO wreck business
and paralyze the energies of the
people.
The Baltimore Sun does not believe
in their ability to destroy as they
threaten to do in advance. 1t says
this, and we are glad to reproduce it:
Mr.. Mckinley may be a very big
man-'bigger than old Grant indeed
but the country can manage to get
along quite comfortably without his
presence in the white house. The
p~anic-breeders may profess to think
otherwise, but none n better than
they that the prosperity of this coun-
try is not wholly dependent upon the
success of any political party or the
election of any candidate for the pres
idency. Their predictions of disaster
are merely the parrot cries of politics.
and unless their profits have been so
great under this administration that
even their capacious maws have been
filled they will continue to do business
at the old stand, it matters not what
nay be the result of the election next
month.
If however, they ave cried wolf so
long that they ave become victims
of their own delusions and are actual
ly afraid to continue in business then
their places will be filled without diff
Guilty and they will soon be forgotten.
For this nation of rs, 000, 600 people will
not stop manufacturing and blowing
and exchanging it's products with the
other nations of h world because of
changes in the national government"
We cannot doubt that there are many
of these fellows who try to intimidate
voters with their threats who would
sink the republic into the hell of a
monarchy if they could, but the people
are going to have something to say
about this wrecking and plundering.
The men who dare to play the reckless
role they propose ought to know that
they are playing with fire. Retribu-
tive justice will soon or late overtake
the guilty men who would sweep h
with destruction because the
bad man they wish to be president is
defeated. 1t is a shame in a republic
that such men should flourish and grow
rich. They can injure if they do not
They a cause suffering in
of sending blessings. We quote
once more from the Sun:
"a nation of IS, 600, 900 people is not
to be frightened into industrial and fl
nancial paralysis by the threat of a
few persons and corporations to with
draw their capital from commerce n
manufacture and tie up their purse
strings.
While the panic-breeders cannot ar
rest the development of this country,
it is unfortunately within their power,
through their reckless and ~unfOunded
assertions, to do some mischief. They
can terrify the timOrOuS or those who
attach weight to their predictions of
disaster and thus cause an alarm
which MAJ eliminate in distrust of our
meritorious financial Institutions"