Show n IPUBllC OPINION a The Peoples Department of The Dispatch Think For It Write For It Edited by Sam A Slne ON THE RECORD Tho editor of Public Opinion is today furnished with an extract from the editorial column of the J ogan Nation of Aug 26th 1892 and we here give it for the benefit of our republican friends who attempt to charge that the haru times have only been upcn us since Mr Clevelands inauguration in 1893 and that strikes are the result of the actions of the present administration administra-tion Th ° Logan republican organ was honest enough in 1892 to collect and present in editorial form n sort of history his-tory of the country covering a period of 60 days during the socalled palmy days of U Benjamin the grandson of his grandfaiher Read it and then ask yourself if in honesty and truthfulness truth-fulness the republicans can claim that the democracy is responsible for the condition of the nation at the present time America is at war When every issue of the daily press for weeks and months teem with reports of deadly conflicts between labor combines and militia or national troops when the I regulars are ordered out almost daily when even heavy cannons are brought into lively acrir n every little while when fierce and deadly engagements occur about every week when entire companies are captured by a coup de ete or pitched battle and made prisot ers and required to lay down their arms when 20000 armed men are in rebellion against the authorities of Iennessee when 8000 national troops are sleeping on their arms in Buffalo when 1000 armed men in Pennsylvania I captured aboat load of the attacking enemy and blood flowed like the river on which the battle was fought when he governor of Kentucky is called upon for troops to crush a race conflict n which 300 negroes are up in arms against 1000 whites when the governor gov-ernor of Wyoming calls for national troops to suppress a raging local rebellion rebel-lion when Idaho calls for the nations soldiers to put down a bloody conflict when we say all these things occur within sixty days and every issue of the dalies brings startling news from the bloody scenes of strife and battle f vie say the country is in state of war Though war is not declared yet we have it in all its hideous and rough visaged form Peace nas fled from her bjrders Many a sixty days wont by in the late rebellion without half the carnage that has been reported in the past two months Labor for the first time in 6000 years has discovered the mighty power of combination For example what can 12 men sitting as the board of directors of the U P Ry Co in Boston do with 10000 employes who hold physical physi-cal possession of the U P line and property Harmonious combination is all that is necessary to enable labor to plant its foot on the neck of its ancient despot And It will be planted there The days for makin brick without straw are numbered Capital shall no longer sit in princely power while labor like the dog beneath its masters table feeds on crumbs The day for equality or anarchy has come Capital can make its choiceLogan Nation Aug 26th 1892 From the truths here quoted we feel assured that the peoples opinions can not be moved by the generalities misstatements sophistries of wouldbe republican leaders That death and destruction was abroad in the land during the year of 1892 can not be denied but during the days of progression pro-gression of the glorious republican party we find other instances where death devastation bankruptcy and sorrow filled our land and we med but consult history to find the events tell in eloquent but forcible language a good illustration was the panic of 1873 and we have pleasure in presenting present-ing a picture of thai terrible time from the brilliant eloquent and much admired republican Robert G Inger sol as delivered in a speech in 1882 No man can imagine all the languages lan-guages of the world cannot express I what the people of the United States affered from 1873 to 1879 Men who considered themselves millionaires fJund that they were beggars men living iu palaces supposing they had enough to give sunshine to the winter of tueir age supposing they had enough to have all they loved in affluence afflu-ence and comfort suddenly found that they were mendicants with bonds stocks mortgages all turned to ashBin ashB-in their aged trembling hands The chimneys grew cold the fires Ju furnaces I fur-naces went out the poor families were turned adrift and the highways of the United States were crowded with tramps Into the home of the poor crept the serpent oi temptation and whispered into the ear of poverty the terrible word repudiation I want to tell you that you cannot conceive of what the American people suffered as they staggered over the desert of bankruptcy from 1873 to 1879 We are too near now to know how grand we were The poor mechanics said No the rumea manufacturer Bild No the once millionaire said No we will settle fair we will agree to pay whether we ever pay or not and we will never soil the American naine wijib ttjo infsmou word 3pUdiii Hau If |