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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1901)
the Cctiseratfa. Priv a t o John WIT AND Allen , of Tupelo , WISDOM. Mississippi , was famous for several congressional terms , as one of the most witty and attractive members of the House of Representatives. His droll method of speech , his quaintness of expression , and his original phrase - coinage , gave him a national reputa tion as a genial and most entertaining ly agreeable humorist. But John Al len has , besides great wit , a large store of old-fashioned wisdom. Quite recently , in a moment of re miniscent confidentiality , Private John Allen related Wisdom. this circumstance to a chummy re publican friend , who has been a noted member of the United States senate from Montana and is now prominent as a member of the Louisiana Pur chase commission , so that he and Pri vate John are colleagues working to gether for the success of the great St. Louis exposition to be held in 1903. "The fact is , Tom , " said John , ' ' that I shall never forget being one of a committee of members of the na tional legislature who called in a bpdy upon Grover Cleveland during the year 1898 , to solicit his influence in behalf of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 in unlimited quantities. There were about twenty- five members of that committee. Each one presented the best possible argu ments in favor of the fad and fallacy of free coinage of the white metal. Nearly all declared to President Cleve land that they believed that unless the administration favored silver and the monetary doctrine we all repre sented , re-election to congress or the senate would become an impossibility in their states. No cause was ever presented with more intelligent zeal than was that of silver on this occas ion to which I refer. The friends of the money fallacy ( as it has turned out to be ) were fervid and ardent in requesting Mr. Cleveland to change his views so that the democratic party might be strengthened and each one of the statesmen then present returned to Washington. ' ' After we had all finished , Grover Cleveland , with great pathos and depth of feeling evinced in every feature , said : 1' ' I obstruct John , would not willingly struct the path which for any of you leads to further political prominence and success. Towards each one oi you I have only the kindest persona ! feelings , but this money question is else so grave and serious a nature tha one's own feelings , preferences and desires must be subordinated to his sense of duty. The honor and credi of the United States are at stake. It is my dutyto adhere firmly to the single gold standard for this country. The government bonds hayo-b < ien. issued with the distinct.uudersfcwd- ing , both by sellerAiiidl , tiuyer , that they are to be paid in gold. National loner and national or edit ft"e superior to any partisan considerations. Pa- ; riotism and the duty thai it imposes , compel meindor my oatli of office' , to utterly disregard partisan success1 , and to firmly act for what I consider the honor , the integrity and thetpros- perity of our common country. If you jentlemen could only convince your selves of the error of your views and iome over to the support of the ad ministration and the support of the gold standard , I honestly believe that it would not only do the country great good , but that it would make the de mocracy permanently the controlling political party of the republic. ' ' ' ' ' And now , ' ' said Private John Al len , ' ' looking back to that momentous occasion , "I wonder why we did not agree with that old man. If we had supported his views and upheld the policies of his administration , the de mocratic party would have been in power today , and all of us gentlemen who have been left out because of our adherence to the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 in unlimited quanti ties , would have been returned to con gress again and again , with unlimited possibilities as to our political future. 1' When the historian comes to write of Cleveland and the fact that when he ended his first administration he left $800,000,000 in the United treasury , and that when he returned to llta seobnd administration four years' er , he foujid that treasury ' drained. | p Jpw at-there was' money 'enough jfn it to meet maturing obligation and current expenses , and that Charge Foster had already issued his order""for the printing of govern ment bonds "with which to raise gold to redeem greenbacks , he will char acterize Cleveland as a wise and sa gacious statesman and financier. That ; historian yH ? | tt&o | ' say that Cleveland last adrniWtrjJon $ was four years of lost bpiplmuity on the part bt the demoor til | nd their pseudojid - ers. If that o d dmiuistratioU p < 3 been upheld fe ? ifously and vefjt mently as It. was denounced , the demon , racy' would ftave remained in power- time without end. The very things that were denounced by the , Bryau- archists and tfl'rpwn overboard as unacceptable ' acceptable , were.'jak.en up and adopted by the republicans Upon the money question , just as/Cleveland stated and adhered to , the republicans have twice ridden into power pver the vagaries and fallacies which the democracy's false leaders had set up. ' The Bland-Allison actQ ! which Itkfigure was succeeded by so-'calledHshermau ? urohase"act. . It too failed to main- lain the market value pf ' silver , tiiid hese two bills were the prirrfary causes of our financial disasters in 1898. They were p6MyrepubliCrtTliV and squarely antagonistic to ev'e'ry'- thiug that Bentou , Jackson , Cleveland and the best erfeniplars of ho'mfs't democracy have MODERN tfft'lVbhrose mint MEDICINE , j"rWhich they coin > , uf fi8v tor''oil sort $ of allegedly'Ame | ij u di8eases. Astute physiciang pj ? 'JJ e United States declare that because" < | > he intense and strenu ous life o { $ e ptizens | of this republic there is evpjVgd" type of diseases en tirely different' from types o6mmon among slow-going and. old-fashioned people in Europe Thus We hear every day a great deal about "nervous pros tration. " This disease afflicts , it is said , only persons with a plethora of money and of .all those luxuries that money can purchase , and it scorns to invade the homes of jfche poor , or the domiciles of merely eUp-do ; , comfortably-fisted people. T iey Jiave only the nervous elation jand' nervous exaltation which oome pit repupua effor i | 'better one's * - Ijn nervons prostration is a disorder. It 'pught to be Hflervous satiety. " It is nervous r because it is " $ he ouJgr6vHh ; of undented appetites , desires , ' whims and caprices. When i without endeavor or labor na everything that he or she 00)1 ] ask , for , nervous satiny develops. Another charmingly , til , , r v - - phrase of the doctors of today is "In failure. " When any hurn n " of a disease unknown or ui the doctor j htf oprrugotes his i , , V1 looks wisr tHaii it is possible for any " " toyman toGyer get in this world , says : t'Dled ' p | heart failure ! * ' , The naly of dyln without having a fe\ttre ] [ \ of the heart has not as yet been covered and reclaimed by the med ical men of this country. Their meek- hess mokes the meekness o ( Mp es high pride , for.vhen . they lose a patient they reverently and lachrymosely remark : "The ays of Providence ore past ? find.- ing out ! " But when a patient , who has withstood the assault of a diseaset & drug store and a doctor combined * thoroughly recovers , the profession says : "How skillfully and wonderfully we did pull him through ! " Thus it is evident that God dp0s all the killing of sick people and doctors do all the saving and curing.
