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Show DISTURBERS OF TEE PEACE. With the opening of congress the uneasy feeling in business circles on theso annual occu-iiona aein manifests mani-fests itself. Finance and truJo have ccme tj be nlllcttd with a large dread of the nition.il loil Mure. The lawmakers no scouer get together than the fear arises that they will do something foohrhly wrong, by which the country will sutler. Iuh fear, though perhaps exaggerated at times, is not altogether without cause, and the occasion for genuine alarm frequently fre-quently exists. It reflects more shame upon the people theraselve3 than up-ou up-ou congressmen, thai men are elected who know no better than to keep the country in a state of constant agitation agita-tion and fear, or who, knowing better, do not desi-t. If able and good men were elected, tho meeting of congress would 03 au occasion for rejoicing, re-joicing, as the people would then feel that whatever w3 wrong would be rigttsd; but as ii is, the apprehension is very general that if anything is risht cougresa will do all it can to make it wrong. The present session has opened with a gleomy outlook so fjr as wise legislation is concerned. The first day was sinalizd in the house by a violently bitter speech against the president, and in the senate ty the introduction of a tbody shirt resolution. resolu-tion. Thus the political war was commenced simultaneously with the beginning of the session, and will not clusu until ti e doers ct' the two chambers are ebut at noon on March 4th, next. The public bueiutss is to b3 neglected that the party squabble j maybe indulged iu, and nit:i may a'.taek ta:h tUer. The political! quarrel will not l3 encngh of a disturbance tj eaiWy the cougiess-mcn, cougiess-mcn, and thiy will iLcjewe ihe ed by tampering with the country's trade and finance, keeping prosperity in , check, and business in a et:e ofj trembling doubt and uncsr ainty. It would be revtln'.ouary 10 (urn this disquict'rg tody out upon the e'.reeU, ! and clcie tho capit 1, but it is ncV certain thst it v.-nld not be nhcut the bcbt thin the country could do. |