Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-01
WELLINGTON, 7HUKSDAr, FEN. I.
Why the Government Needs n "Keely
Gold C!ure.v

why inc government NeeuS n fheely
Gold Cure"
During the campaign Of 1892 Demo.
rats, predicting disaster because of
wills resulting from laws enacted by
Republican Congresses, were shouted at
is calamity howlers," yet 1t seems
strange, even when we consider that
he direst predictions have been sur
passed in the financial stress this coun-
Try has gone through since then, that
The business disasters proving the truth
Of Democratic prophecies should pro-
yoke such Republican reioicings and
lubilation, such unadulterated joy and
glee that it cannot be concealed and
Kept out of the editorial columns of
tho leading Republican daily press.
A sample of the gleeful, witty filings
that are daily made at the country's
financial condition, was contained in
Sundays Philadelphia Press, where a
paragrapher was permitted to print the
following coarse Jest;
The United States Treasury needs the gold
cure.
The metaphor is not so bad. An
habitual drunkard, after the worst of
debarches, never needed more the treat.
ment of Keely Institute than this
great government after the four years of
Republican debauchery, overcome and
staggering from copious doses of
McKinleyism in the Harrison admins
lration, needs the skilful treatment, the
healthy habits, the honest, wholesome
food furnished by clean and economi-
cal administration, and healthy recuper-
ative legislation, such as has been given
and will be furnished by Democratic
President and Congress.
It may be that, as Mr. Wilson and his
supporters in the House seem to fear,
/ the effects upon the patients system of
the high-seasoned food and stimulating
drains enjoyed in times of Republican
debauchery, make it unsafe to at once
cut off all such habits, but an honest
and wholesome diet has been prescribed
and though the twitching and nervous.
ness of the patient may be sad to view
unmoved, no one doubts, or should
doubt, that system of decent life and
healthy habits will make better man
or a better country when the effects of
the stimulants, or rather drugs, are
overcome.
At the end of Cleveland's first admin
istration, one hundred millions of dol.
lars, good honest money, showed the
savings made for the people out of their
taxes, a healthy treasury, high credit
and debts rapidly being reduced.
Four years of Harrison, during which
the Sherman Silver law aud McKinley's
tariff were enacted, and we find the
hundred millions gone and fifty more
beside. In round numbers, three dollars
taken from every man, woman and child
in the United States, was wasted, and a
panic produced from which we are Just
beginning to recover, as it becomes GER
tain that the repeal or modification of
ether evil laws is to follow the good
beginning made when the purchasing
clause of the Sherman Silver act was
annulled.
Remember, the trouble came when
the lauded acts of the Republican party
were in full force, the Mckinley bill,
the Sherman law, the bounties to sugar
men, the outrageous pension laws were
etfectually at work, and the result was
only as Democrats had predicted.
In Republican eyes now it has be-
come almost crime to start the wheels
of any mill. The calamity howlersn
are of different political faith, and if the
distress can only be continued for ten
months longer the party that has in its
last days proved itself the most venal
that ever cursed this land by its sophis-
try aud pretenses may again hope to
secure a renewed lease of life.