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.
