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Show WARNS THE SCHEMERS Wilson Hears Sinister Panic Predictions and Promises Gibbet. New York. Dec. IS. President-elect Wilson held up a warning finger last night to any man who might deliberately deliber-ately start a panic in the Unlten States in order to show that intended intend-ed legislative policies were wrong. In a speech at the banquet of the Southern society of N'ew Yorii he declared de-clared that he had heard sinister predictions pre-dictions of what would follow If the Democratic party put into effect changes chan-ges In economic policy. The President-elect first distinguished distin-guished In his speech between "natural" "nat-ural" and "unnatural" panics. He said that in many cases panics had come natr rally because of a mental disturbance of people with reference to loans and money generally. "But the machinery is In existence," he said, "by which the thing can be deliberately done. Frankly, I do not think.hgro js any man .living who au'res use t tic" machinery for tLat purpose. pur-pose. If he does, I promise him, not for myself, but for my fellow countrymen, coun-trymen, a gibbet as high as Hainan's." Ha-inan's." Tho governor added that ho meant no literal gibbet, "for thai is not painful," pain-ful," but he said It would be a Elb-bct Elb-bct of public disgrace "which will Ho as long as the members of that man's family survive " "America, with her eyes opon, is not going to let a panic happen," the governor gov-ernor continued, "but I speak as ir I expected as If I feared it. I do not I am afraid of nothlng . The President-elect's spcecn covered cover-ed a variety of subjects. He Ireatcc first of sectionalism, declaring that It ought not to exist. "There Is a vast deal o do," ho said, "and It can best bo cone by forgetting for-getting that wo arc partisans or anything any-thing except the honor and prosperity prosper-ity of the nation Itself " |