Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . do. That among the misdeeds of the Republican partynot the least conspicuous is the mismanagement ofthe Freedmens Savings and Trust Company, char-tered by a Republican Congress, without sufficientsafeguards to protect the interests of its depositors,which has resulted in the robbery of many thousandsof confiding freedmen, and that it is therefore theduty of Congress to take all legal measures to secureto the sufferers full indemnity for their losses. That the prostration of the industries of thisState, the depressio
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . do. That among the misdeeds of the Republican partynot the least conspicuous is the mismanagement ofthe Freedmens Savings and Trust Company, char-tered by a Republican Congress, without sufficientsafeguards to protect the interests of its depositors,which has resulted in the robbery of many thousandsof confiding freedmen, and that it is therefore theduty of Congress to take all legal measures to secureto the sufferers full indemnity for their losses. That the prostration of the industries of thisState, the depression in its trade and commerce, arethe natural results of the maladministration and mis-government of the Republican party, and the con-tinuance of that party in power will increase thepresent deplorable waste of the invested capital ofthis State, spread the poverty now threatening ourlaboring-classes, and bring misery, ruin, and ill-healthto the nearths of those careful artisans who haveheretofore been able to bear up against the hardtimes under which this State now STATfc HOD8X, BOSTON. We view with indignation the supineness of theparty in power in neglecting to take measures againstthe causes of the decline of our commerce and manu-factures. We look in vain in the platform of thatparty for the indications of any comprehensive policyof statesmanship for the emergency. And we seenothing in the qualifications of those nominated bythem to national and State leadership that indicatesany relief from the consequences of the feeble states-manship, careless, do-nothing policy, and ring-control,which now paralyze the energies of the country. That amid the depression of all business amongus there is an imperative demand for a reduction ofState, county, and municipal expenses in this Com-monwealth ; the cutting down of salaries to a morereasonable relation to the general profit of industryamong the tax-paying citizens, the dispensing withunnecessary offices, the abolishing of s
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