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Editorials

May 22, 1879 issue

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The article comments on economic and political developments all round the world. In the U.S., if the Democratic candidate is for them an impossible person, people believe there will then be some mode of escape provided for them either from a cowardly silence or from open acquiescence in what they believe to be ruinous policy. There are already signs, however, that the Grant movement is declining. In an another news, the prevailing depression in business from which the country has been suffering for six years, and from which nearly every country in Europe is suffering still, has probably furnished support to a greater number of conflicting economical theories than any other occurrence of ancient or modern times.

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ECONOMIC development; POLITICAL development; POLITICAL candidates; POLITICAL movements; EUROPE; UNITED States
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