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Show LASH THE PANIC MAKER. ''Has Picsident-olect Wilson been reading the Standard?" was asked us this morning. "Why?" we questioned. "Well, I see," said our Inquisitive friend, "he realizes there aro forces at work to create a panic for political politi-cal effect, a fact which he might have gleaned from the editorial columns, col-umns, as tho Standard has uttered quite as strong a warning against such a disloyal act as did Mr Wilson In his address to the Southern society so-ciety of Xcw York at a banquet last evening." Wo are pleased to note that tho President-elect has taken cognizance of this threat against his administration adminis-tration and has promised for the deliberate de-liberate maker of a panic "a gibbet as high as Hainan's." Mr. Wilson explained that he meant no literal gibbet, "for that is not painful," but he said it would be j a gibbet of public disgrace "which will live as long as the members of' that man's family survive." He declared de-clared ho had heard sinister predic tion of what would follow If the Democratic Dem-ocratic party put into effect changes 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 como natuially because of a mental disturbance of peoplo with reference to loans and money generally. "But the machinery ts In existence," he said, "by which the thing can bo deliberately done. Frankly, I don't think there is any map living who dares use the machinery for that purpose. pur-pose. If ho does, I promise him, not for myself but for mj- fellow countrymen- a gibbet as high as Haman's. As for myself, I am afraid of noth' Ing." Whenever a group of financiers or wealthy manufacturers who have fat-tenod fat-tenod on government privileges, Inaugurates In-augurates a campaign of pessimism and alarm, that moment the spotlight of publicity should be thrown on the scene, that the people as a whole may be made to realize the degree of moral turpitude to which men of that class will sink in an effort to maintain main-tain or regain their advantages. What this country needs as a safeguard against tho mercenary panic-makers is a few talks of the kind that Governor Wilson gave last night, followed up by naming some of the fellows engaged in this work of treason. |