Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — The Panic Bug. [ARTICLE]

The Panic Bug.

The Panic bug is a sort of a fouryear locust. It comes out of the; ground" about the middle of October; grows rapjdly for two weeks, reaches its majority the day before election and dies the next day. There are three kinds of insect powder that are fatal to it. First, the history of panics; for history shows that of the three panics which have come within the past 50 years two have come under Republican Presidents and Republican laws, and the third under a democratic President, but before the republican laws could be repealed. The second remedy is logic. If Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt really thought that a panic would come with a democratic victory they would not have jeopardized the country by entering into a personal quarrel which .divided the republican party and made democratic victory certain. The third specific for the panic bug is patriotism. If a few Wall street financiers can bring a panic whenever they desire and are heartless enough to punish the country for not submitting to Wall street dictation, then the sooner they are driven from political power the better.—The Commoner. ,