The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-01
A CONDITION AND A REMEDY
WHAT TILDEN'S LIFE
TEACHES.

OF new leaders WITH cruue views upon
public questions, and the many distract
ing and clashing opinions, the average
honest man is minded to ask, "where is
truth 2" The superficial leader offers
him the shadows with which he is &C
quainted with all the assurance that
charlatans always display. The dema-
gogue studies to find out what will best
please the populace, and comes up glibly
with specious arguments to prove that
what they are supposed to want is the
very thing to solve all problems and cure
all diseases. The true and honest seeker
after truth, mindful of the fallihility of
all men, modestly and in straightfor-
ward manner points the way that
experience and wisdom have blazed out,
frankly avowing that there is no nos
trum that will cure all the ills that af-
fiict the body polite. In an hour of
passion, disappointment and prejudice
the man who offers something drastic
and quick, with guarantee, no matter
whether the guarantee is worth the paper
1t is written on, is apt to be chosen as
the adviser and leader, while the honest
practitioner who depends upon nature,
good nursing and time, as muehas physic,
is apt TO be ignored. But, when the
shallow doctors and the mountebanks
have well nigh destroyed the system and
shattered the nerves, the sick man is
glad enough to send for the unpreten
tious old doctor, who claims no super
human power, and beg him to use COM
mon sense remedies in his treatment.
But he will try the amateur and the
quack until they have Disguised him
with their ignorance and deception.
For some years, owing largely to the
corrupt, selfish and sectional legislation
that has cursed the country, particularly
the South and West, the people have
been turning bither and thither to find
remedies for the hard conditions that
have come upon them. Ambitious dema-
gogues, taking advantage of the great
unrest and dissatisfaction among them,
have gone out and said: "The trouble
with you is that you have no money in
your pockets. Feel aud see. What you
need is more money" The most ignorant
man in the country could have presented
this fact with equal clearness, but the
question with the dissatisfied multitude
was: How can we get more money!"
Three ways were pointed out:
/. Let the government issue $50 per
- OF paper money. But" said the
poof(naa, what good will that do me9
How can | get my shares" The blind
leader Of the blind, or the demagogue,
for there are both who seek to lead
by near cut made reply: 1.-THE gov
eminent will establish great warehouses.
Take your crops there, get money ad-
vanced on them, and do not sell
until the price goes up. You will then
have the power to force up the price to
your own figures" This sounded very
plausible, and many burdened souls,
without rejecting upon the impractical
bility of this new Ethiopian condition
presented, gladly hailed the sub treasury
and other kindred schemes of silly self
seekers as the solution of all their diff
culties. Many of them followed the
men who invented and promulgated this
air-castle with all the joy that an inno-
cent child parsues the butterfly over the
hills and vale VS..
2. The second doctor said that the
only trouble was that the paralysis of bust
ness had been produced by fear of
change of conditions; that it was not the
more than war taxes, the contraction Of
primary money, the extravaganza of gov
eminent, nor the sectional discrimina-
ton that oppressed the people, chat
these things were good in themselves),
but the fear that taxes would be reduced,
the single gold standard terminated,
economy put in the place of extrava-
gance,-it was the fear Of these
threatened changes that had brought
distress upon the people. This
doctor argued that the assurance of sta.
bility was all that was needed.
3. The third doctor, the Oldest of
them all, said that no immediate cure
could be effected by any remedy known
TO man. He argued that the disease,
being of thirty years standing, had per
rneated every part OF the system, and
that the man could not be restored to
his normal condition by drastic medi
cine. The first thing he advised was to
ouit bleeding the man, and to let nature
sake it's course. He has been kept down
N akin and bones by taking from him
every drop Of blood he could spare with
ont killing him. The first thing to do
40 reduce the process of blood letting.
Z ! would give nature chance to heal
him without much medicine. The heart
onght TO be given free action, so that
sbe blood would flow naturally into all
tho arteries, some of which had been
bmnd with tight cords since 1873. I'm
,,;,a these and restore the circulation,
fhnF fob