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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1897)
b J V A CAGES BRAZEN PLAN If -we consider Secretary Gages scheme as simply intended for the further enrichment of the banks and especially the big banks it Is undoubt edly a good one But how it is to fur nish us with a better monetary system or a belter grade of money than Tve have jiow is beyond our ken The first -act is to increase the gold reerve 25 000000 Then the interest bearing debt is to be increased some 200000 000 on a gold bsais and made perma nent while 200000000 in national currency is withdrawn from circula tion sind replaced with bank notes Fi nally the Government is to stand lie hind the banks and redeem the notes whenever the banks themselves fail to do so We are not informed as to what kind of a redemption fund of 5 per cent the banks are to provide or how they are to provide it But supposing it to be in gold Ave are at a loss to see upon what principle of sound finance he considers a 5 per cent redemption fund sufficient for the banks while deeming a 100000000 gold reserve in adequate for the United States treas ury It has been steadily assumed and claimed that even the slightest delay on the part of the Government in re deeming with gold any form of itspa per money would at once cause -the lat ter to depreciate and involve us in un told calamities But how the banks are to stand ready at any moment to re- been defeated Accidental conditions greatly favored the Republican party Still it lost heavily all along the line McKinley Paying Off Mortgages We should be glad to entertain a doubt about the stories coming from Washington that the President is tak ing up political mortgages with which he became incumbered during the cam paign but the neglect on the part of the Presidents friends to contradict them and the persistence of the Presi dent in acting as if some of these re ports are true make it difficult to be lieve that he has not surrendered some part of his prerogative At all events many Republicans are complaining in the national capital that patronage formerly dispensed by the President Is now being given or witnheld at the dic tation of holders of political mort gages superior to claims of the other people upon their chief magistrate Speaker Keeda Opportunity Let the speaker organize effective op position to Hannaism to the whole trust fostering and public plundering schemes of the McKinley syndicate Let him fight the evasion of the rev enue question in the interest of the tar iff barons Let him fight the shameful patronage deals and plunder bargains of Hanna If Speaker Reed organizes a fight on this line of campaign he will rally to his banner a great throng of Republicans who have been sickened HOW LONG CAN HE STAND IT St Paul Globe deem their paper in gold is a point upon which Mr Gage throws no light whatever AVe do not believe that he expects the banks to do much in the way of redemption He is not formu lating any plans to increase the bur dens of the banks That is not what he is in his present position for If he had not been assured that the plan would be satisfactory to the banks it can be safely affirmed that it would never have been submitted to the Cab inet It will be observed that he does not recommend the immediate retire ment of all our national currency but only 400000000 of it This leaves 700 millions of dollars in different forms of United States cuiTcncy with which to drag the treasury for gold For in ternal use very little gold will be re quired In the main it will only be needed for export Is it reasonable to suppose that the banks would permit their own reserves of gold to be ex hausted when they can get it at the treasury of the United States in ex change for greenbacks Sherman notes silver certificates or silver dollars It is absolutely certain that in case of a heavy foreign demand for gold the United States treasury would have to furnish it just as it noAV dries until the last piece of national paper money and every silver dollar were withdrawn from circulation Recent Republican Reverses The Republicans of course ascribe their reverses to the fact that this is an off year That is the usual ex cuse but it is far from being a factory one There is no general rule that a party shall lose in the elections immediately following its advent to power and even if there were the rule should not apply in this case The Re publicans have made their campaigns upon the claim that they have during their few months of power lifted the country out of the Slough of De spond in which it had been strug gling and placed it upon the broad bighway of a magnificent prosperity If this claim is true their majorities should have been increased not dimin ished If the people are rolling in pros perity they must certainly know it The result proves that they do not hold the Republican party responsible for the famine in India the drouth in Ar gentine and the short crops of Europe which have conspired to raise the prices of American breadstuffs Prob ably the rise of wheat and other cals did mislead some voters for all men are not discriminating as to causes If wheat had been 30 cents a bushel lower Mr Hanna would have lost every close district in Ohio and by the disgraceful course of the Hanna syndicate and who fp nothing but ruin for the party in the defiant tramp ling upon popular rights and interests that has marked Hannas bossism He will serve his country and gain its ro spect and confidence Ex Bad Xews for Pingleyites It falls with peculiar sadness upon the ears of Senator Aldrieh of Rhode Island who vouched for the peculiar excellence of the cotton schedule of the Dingley tariff law that the wages of 2S000 operatives in Fall River will be reduced 10 per cent The cause of the reduction is the depressed condition of the cotton market which does not en able print cloth it is asserted to be manufactured for the price now pre vailing which is the lowest on record And thus we see the failure of the most scientific tariff law ever framed to produce either revenue protection or higher wages Fears the Power of Trusts Secretary Sherman talked so bravely a few weeks ago against the growing power and multiplying evils of trusts that the people were led to hope the subject would receive earnest atten tion from the nations chief magistrate in his first exhaustive state paper The Presidents failure therefore to take any notice of this vitally important matter can be accounted for only on the hj pothesis that he did not choose to expose his party to the reproaches and enmity of the beneficiaries of the trusts Haymaking Time for Republicans There can be no hope of bringing tne revenue and appropriations together by economy for two reasons The ap propriations for this fiscal year are al ready made and the estimates indicate a deficit approaching 70000000 The appropriations for the next fiscal year are little likely to be lessened by a party which see on every hand evi dences that its complete control over the government is shortly to be wrest ed from it The Republicans can be expected to make hay for themselves while the sun shines The Peoples Turn Will Come For the present the trusts are in the saddle But the peoples turn will come They know that a democratic form of government will be impossi ble when the industries by which they live are controlled by a few men whose power gives them a dominant in fluence in politics The reckoning is inevitable St Louis Post Dispatch DUTY OF THE DOCTOR QUESTION AS TO WHAT HE OWES TO THE PUBLIC No Doubt that Physicians Are Greatly Imposed Upon bylJnscrupulous People-Say from 25 to 60 Per Cent of Their Work Is Donated Night Calls Often NeUess A question of considerable interest to the medical profession Is coming up in the large cities as to the rules that should govern miscellaneous night calls Some physicians while not up holding a doctor in heartlessly weigh ing his fee in the balance with a hu man life declare that doctors are im posed upon so often day and night by those able to pay for his services but falling to do so that he is justified in HUBBIES OUT IJT THE STORM consulting his personal desires and yomfort before answering a call So much of a phjTsicians work is prac tically charity they say that he is at liberty to use the same prudence about undertaking the work offered him by strangers that any other professional man is Other physicians assert vehemently that every reputable doc tor will answer any call that it is part of his religion to be ever ready to suc cor the afflicted owing to the peculiar nature of his profession and that it is not comparable to the stand that might be taken for a fee by an attorney or a man in any other business whose ser vices might be sought by a stranger They say that the emergency which usually exists when a doctor is called often originate at 2 oclock In the morn ing Very often when a doctor is thus called upon at night to render immedi ate aid with no fee In sight when he asks for the history of the case he learns the child has been ill for two or three days but it did not look serious and we didnt think we would need a doctor until to night Then at an early hour in the morning after hav ing had a few days in which to seek the free aid that is at their disposal they call upon a professional man to leave his bed with no prospect of re muneration and attend the case of the child A favorite trick of panic stricken families in an emergency the doctors say is to call up half a dozen doctors at once in order to be sure and have enough of them on hand If a mem ber of the family awakes the house hold with agonizing groans and a bad case of cholera morbus everyone de cides he is going to die in half an hour and someone rushes to the nearest tele phone and calls up all the doctors in a radius of a mile Neither knows the others have been called but anxious to save a life and with the appeal of the frenzied one still ringing In his ears hastens to dress Then he goes to a dark and cheerless barn and hitches a tired horse by the light of a lantern and with the sleep still in his eyes is soon speeding toward the house From other directions half ji dozen other physicians are coming but they are met at the door by1 a member of the household who is So sorry but we couldnt wait and Dr Brown gave an injection of morphine and hes all right now A juncture where the physician feels decidedly chary of giving his services is in a case where a doctor has been in attendance on a patient for days -and has prescribed a certain course of treatment by the family But in the night the patient appears to become worse his breathing becomes light or his pulse xapid and in alarm some member of- the family rushes for the nearest doctor He is told breathless ly at the door that a man Is dying in the next block and unless he hurries a life will have slipped away In nine cases out of ten the doctor will hastily dress and without asking any more questions take his medicine case and start for the house There he finds a table covered with bottles and pills and powders left by the other phy sician and is told that they would have sent for the other doctor only he lives so far away Of course that sort of a humanitarian point of view mor j than a utilitarian and openly Hay that the medical profession owes it to the public to be every ready to respond to a call That there Is a great deal of Injustice on the part of the public cannot bj doubted and it is also true that if the public would consider a physician not as a bounden servant but as a profes sional man full of duties and nef r infringe on his night leisure except In cases of real urgency the man of med icine would always meet patients half way It is an error to suppose that a doctor is compelled to consider all calls There Is no law strictly covering the case while many eminent physicians declare it to be a part of their religion to regard calls whether they bring fees or not as part of a bounden duty they as well point to the fact that a failure to solve the problem of just when a physician should be required to give his time at unreasonable hours for nothing has driven many persons out of the profession NEW BABY INCUBATOR Very Efficient Contrivance to Fan thq Feeble Sparks of Life This Illustration shows one of the latest baby incubators with nurse In attendance These Incubators are used as a means of saving the lives of prema turely born or very weakly Infants The incubator is composed of a metal frame mounted on a metal stand The BABY IXCtJBATOB AND NUB8E child rests on a wire hammock sus pended from the four corners and In front are two swinging glass doors made to close tightly while at one side is a glass window through which the child may be seen This box is heated by air which is made moist and agree able by being passed through a small IllS I t vtWf 111 9i 3f 1 wifl W - 77 a tv In the night should be sufficient incen tive to him to respond to the call and take his chance of being paid later that a case of life and death cannot wait until the morrow as a lawsuit or any other business might Physicians of years of experience in general practice in Chicago make the startling atement that from 25 to GO per cent of a doctors work is donated Some physicians say about one third of their time and experience goes for nothing others place it at a quarter and two declare that fully GO per cent was never paid for Some of this work of course they know will not be paid for that done at hospitals and for people who frankly confess their in abiUty to meet the bill But it is the other part that rubs It is the bills of people who can and will not pay that make doctors shy about going out on night calls and increasing the annual percentage of charity work It is well known that doctors donate a far great er percentage of their work than other professional men do The medical charities of a great city like Chicago says the Chronicle are enormous in the aggregrate The time that is do nated by hundreds of doctors to hos pitals and dispensaries Is worth many thousands of dollars and by many in the profession the claim is made that the doctors are far too liberal in this regard since the free dispensaries and hospitals are taken advantage of by people well able to pay for medical at tendance and thus the profession is cheated out of thousands of dollars ev ery year In very many of the cases where doc tors are called upon at night and urged to hasten to the bedside of a dying child such action would not be neces sary had the parents of the child taken precaution to visit a dispensary the day before and secure what was nec essary for the suffering little one Complaints of a serious nature do not NIGHTLY SCENES IN A DOCTORS LIFE thing does not tend to make a phy sician fall in love with night messages He finds a case almost at his door which was passed over his head to a doctor in another part of town when the patient became ill but when a crisis arises the family rushes to the nearest aoctor and in nine cases out of ten he Is not paid for the call After a few dozen of these experiences he is a little shy about chasing out into the night on a hurry call The majority of doctors however go on the principle that a physicians time is not his own that he is enlisted in the cause of suffering humanity and should be ready at all times to render aid to the needy These doctors for the most part are the younger generation who have not had so many hard SB SMITH GOT HEBE FIRST knocks as their gray bearded brethren and who are striving to build up a practice in the fierce competition which obtains in large cities They insist that whoever calls on a doctor at any hour for aid should be answered at once TIley look at the question from - - - - A sheet of absorbent antiseptic wool sus pended in medicated water Kien Long and His Physicians There used to be related a curious an ecdote of old Kien Long emperor of China He was inquiring of Sir George Staunton the manner in which physi cians were paid in England When after some difficulty his majesty was made to comprehend the system he ex claimed Is any man well in England that can afford to be ill Now I will inform you said he how I manage my phy sicians I have four to whom the care of my health is committed A certain weekly salary is allowed them but the moment I am ill the salary stops till I am well again I need not inform you that my illnesses are usually short Harpers Round Table Spitzbergen Hotel The hotel recently erected in Spitz bergen is thus described Built in Nor wegian style it has a large hall and a quantity of smaller rooms with thirty beds It is also provided with a book for visitors names among which may now be seen those of Sverdrup Fulda Prince Hohenlohe Schillingsfuerst E Vely and others The climate of Spitzbergen is said to have the most favorable influence on persons suffer lng from chest diseases Real Mean Miss Olds Have you seen my new photographs I have had a dozen taken and am very much pleased with them Miss Smartleigh Ah you wore a thick veil I suppose What has become of the old-fashioned man who banked up his housl every fall A sick man never gets sympathy as long as his appetite is good V - Vhjp Msliilsip y The Doctor and the School There is a demand for a professor ship In sanitary science In our normal and medical Institutions The condC tlons which conduce to health In our school buildings should be Included Int the Instruction given The medical school and normal school should join hands in the new crusade for human itys sake The duty of the public schools is to train boys and girls so they may be- come healthy clear headed upright men and women capable of producing oud perpetuating a race of stalwart American citizens To accomplish this the doctor must re enforce the teachers He should make himself acquainted with the conditions under which the children study so that he may Intelli gently advise parents and school au thorities The word of the Intelligent physician should be law and under his direction the pupil should be allowed to attend a half day to drop some studies or even to study at home and recite at school But the physician should not place the school at a disadvantage Under such conditions he should place a right restraint upon evening parties unwholesome diet and insufficient sleep All that the schools ask of the physician is fair play I have discussed this question from the physical side because I think it is of the most immediate importance t am aware that there are other lines along which Ave ought to push Investi gations and discussions bnt we must first establish more favorable condi tions before we decide other matters which depend largely upon the sanita tion of the school Every school room whether public private or parochial ought to be carefully Inspected and ap proved by competent authority before it can be usJed for school purposes The State does not lose Interest in the child because his parents elect to have him educated In some other than a State school Dietetic and Hyglenlo Gazeete School Luncheons America likes to think herself veryl progressive but constantly the oldl world is reminding us that it does new things better and quicker than wej do as well as the old ones says the Brooklyn Times While New York and1 other cities of the Onion are agitating the question of noonday luncheons for the public school children Paris has quietly been providing the same for years Every public school has its can teen service as it is called for furnish- ing meals to children who cannot pay The meals are set out in the play room and eaten under the supervision of a teacher Often in addition to Its nap kin aud wine the child will bring some fruit or a bit of cheese which in that country even among those who are not supposed to be epicures is always an esteemed dessert Here in this big city of New York not only are there no good luncheons provided but no effort is made to pro tect the ignorant little students from very bad ones Bakeshops and candy stores abound in the neighborhood of every public school and thrive at the expense of the scholars physical No movement on the part of scientists and educators is more im portant than that now started in many places to reform the childrens school luncheons Too Many Kulcs The teacher who gives her pupils simple rules outside of the authori ties for determining questions which confront them and particularly grain matical questions is apt to findthat her rules disastrously fail to fit all eases One time the county superintendent of schools was questioning the pupils of a country school He wrote on the blackboard the sentence The fly hasr wings and asked a class what part of speech each word was They parsed the the without serious trouble Why part of speech is fly asked the superintendent Adverb shouted all the class in unison What Fly an adverb Yessir shouted the children with great positiveness What makes you think it is an ad verb Cause teacher told us that all words that end in ly are adverbs Youths Companion Brooklyns Largest School The largest public school in Brooklyn had last year 2650 pupils enrolled with a daily average attendance of 2374 In 1896 the great number of children seeking admission made necessary the building of an additional house on ther same grounds This new building has twelve classrooms making in all fifty- five class rooms belonging to this school The staff consists of theprincipal three heads of departments and fifty five regular teachers May Paddle Pupils The prosecution and acquittal of a teacher for punishing a pupil in the Muncie Ind schools accidentally de i veloped that there is an old statute passed by the Legislature several de cades ago requiring that incorrigible pupils must be paddled or else expelled from school the paddling to be by the consent of the guardian or parent and administered by the teacher Thel school board has ordered observance of this statute in emergency cases May Have a -Reason Do your pupils like school If not where lies the trouble Inquire with in Possibly you may find the reason there If so have the good judgmeab to correct the error at once