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Show fiMfSAW' ATTEMPTED PANIC Prcsidcnt'Clcct Wilson Warns I'olili- ''BBl cians Not to Attempt (o Start ' iH Panic by False Statements . ''''IH 1'EAHS NO IlliPRCSSION IN BUSINESS ' !H Says American People Will Not ; BIHhI Permit It. Discusses Public , HHHI Needs H m NEW YORK, Dec. i",:-? ! iH dent-elect Wilsn JJa ;Up.T, f H warning jggp tonight to -any , HB maVwho might- deliberately ; Hi 'start a panic in tho Unlteu- ' 4 ' BSR States in order to show that ' KKllIll intended legislative policies , HlP were wrong. In a speech at a Blilli banquet of the Southern Society WH$sB of hC York ho declare that HPlSP he had ht sinster-predic- r , BtWI tions of what'0uld follow if Hffi tho Democratic party .put into vBBnB effect changes in economic ., , .- v IHHH polfcy. ' Vi'HHHf . The president-elect first dis- ', , tllB tinguished his speech between S'HI natural and "unnatural" panics. ' llHHBi He said that in niany ' caseB . u wiAMH ' icauie of .a nfelitalrJEMhilli of peoplo with reference to ' ;HH loans and money generllly. "HMR "But the mahinery is in exist- IEHl ence," he said, "by which the IBi thing can be deliberately dqne. - HH Frankly, I don't think there "HHB is any man living who dares use , . ' iBl tho machinery for that pourpose. HflH If ho does, I promise him, HM notfor myself, but for my fel- H low countrymen, a gibbet as 'H highs a Haman's. 2 The governor added that he 1 meant no literal gibbet, "for -H that is painful," but he said it ' 1 would bo a gibbet of public ' l disgrace, "which will live as V 1 long as the members of that , H man's family survive. .H "America, with her eyes .. ., " !H open, is not going to let a panic , M '1 haopen," tho governor contin- ''V T? H ued, but I speak as if I expected if ,'' H as if 1 feared it. I do not. 1 ) H am afraid of nothing." ! H The president-elect speech jH covered a variety of subjects. H Ho treated first of sectionalism, JH declaring it ought not to exist. . . 'H "There is a vast deal to do," , -' J; H iio said, "and it can best be . H done by forgetting that wo are partisans of anything except H the honor and prosperity of the J,, M nation itself" ';, 1 "God knows the poor suffer '.),., 1 enough in this country. We ,-y ' must aiove for emancipation . f. . ' of the poor and that cmancipa ? ,, H tion will come without our own H emancipation from tho error of :. -. ' M our minds as to what consitutes ': H prosperity. "' H "Prosperity does not exist i H for a nation unless it pervades H it. And the amount of wealth V' H in a nation is much less import- H ant than the accessibility of the " H wealth. "The more people lM the you make it accessible to H moro energy you call fourth." M |