Arizona republican., 1902-10-22
CURRENT COMMENT
 The Party of Kill or Cure.

What a fine lot of prescriptions the democratic doctrines have offered the country in the last ten years as reme- dies for the ills the political flesh has fallen heir to, In 1892 they recom- mended tariff reform as a sure cure for the distended condition of the treas ury In a moment of madness the peo- pie took it. It was effective. It not only cleaned out the surplus, but it killel most of the business of the country. In 1896 they prescribed free silver for the tired feeling which had resulted from an allopathic dose of the Wilson bill. Heaven only knows what would have happened if the country had taken that nostruTi. For the Phil ippines troubles they recommended scuttling-a remedy which would have won us the derisiCn of the entire civi- lized world, lost us billions of dollars worth of trade, and left the poor devils
 in the archipelago in a worse plight than they were in before we rescued them from Spain. For the trust evil, they again recommend their famous tariff revision pellets. which are guar anteed to cure the disease, but are nor ally sure to put the patient again fiat
 on his back and gasping for breath. But it was left to the democratic medicine makers of New York to place the capstone on this wonderful edi-
 fee. erected by the hands of political quackery. As a cry for the coal strike they offer government ownership and operation of the mines-a leap from the coal famine frying pan into the so- cialistic fire. It mattered little to them that before their policy could. be adopted the constitution of the United States would have to be amended-a long and tedious operation-and that
 meantime. so far as their remedy was concerned, the strikers might all starve and the people of the country all freeze
 to death They must propose a consis- tently democratic remedy. and, of course. the most radical and drastic
 one in the political pharmacopoeia. For now were the votes of the incendiary | and dangerous classes in New York | state to be caught except by means of
 wild insane and revolutionary prop | osition?
 The democracy seems to be undergo ing process of progressive degenera-
 ton. It has seemed bad enough for several years past. but its last state is
 worse than it's first. and it's next. if we
 may accept the past criterion, will be
 worse than it's present one. How can
 anybody hope that 1t will soon recover
 its sanity, when it's convention in the leading state of the union-a conven-
 tion dominated by a man like David B. Hill, who, not long since was regarded as ervative-declares for scheme which is not only contrary to spirit of American statesmanship and public policy, but which is directly op-
 posed to the old states rights" doc
 Urine of the ancient democracy-the
 doctrine which was the cornerstone of
 the foundation of the party?
 The next thing in order, is for the democrats to declare in national con-
 vention in favor of absolute socialism. Having dore that they will have com
 pleted the circuit from the position of the mort conservative to that of the most radical party in the country. The people having. after that. given them the worst drubbing they ever received, a reaction might set in which would restore the party to place somewhere nearer itT old rank as great political organiza zation.-Kansas City Journal