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Show oo TRYING TO BRING ON DISCONTENT 'Ihere is a little too much emphasis empha-sis being given to the "bread lines" by the organs of the Standpatters throughout the country. The campaign cam-paign Is too concerted to be other than a deliberate attempt to fill the nation With alarm and distrust. During the 1907 panic, when "bread "m lines" began to form In all the larger Cities, reassuring statements caine froi'i the Democratic as well as Republican Re-publican papers and that spirit of con t. deuce helped to prevent what might bave been the most disastrous finan-i finan-i fal and industrial cra-sh in our his-ton his-ton Cut now ihere Is a disposition on the part of the most hide-bound parly organs to welcome, as excellent pieces of news, any evidence of dls-tre" dls-tre" In any part of the United States "here is not a winter In which the larger cities are free from the problem prob-lem or caring for the unemploved In the winter of 1906 when laboring men were in demand on all the rail-ioads rail-ioads and in other lines of work, Chicago was compelled to provide means 10 feed the hungry vagrants on its streets Seme of the papers are presenting on their front pages scenes of poverty pover-ty in Chicago, with great head lines to drive home Hie dread of hard times. No more vicious policy, as a means to a political advantage, could be adopted by a partisan press. No onp doubts that, if half the papers pa-pers of the United States are to proceed pro-ceed to cast shadows aiTTl spretid gloom, confidence can be shaken and a period of great uncertainty established. estab-lished. Our great money interests, in or der to inflict a horrible example can Poster this propaganda of discouragement discourage-ment and bring on B depression, but if the people are wise they will ignore ig-nore the doleful sounds and te6t on merit alone the great Issues before them. |