The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-10-26
Editorial Department.
By F. w. Meyers-

The REVIEW has not sought this
year to overload its columns with poll
tical matter and We may now perhaps
be parioned if we consider the Issues
of the present campaign somewhat a.
length.
The similarity of this campaign With
that OF 1892 has to us been the mos,
dangerous symptom of the contest. II
1892, as in 1904, the people were happy,
prosperous ana contented. While g
man is ever ready to ascribe his fail
ures to bad luck or to the fault of others,
ne is ever prone to lay the responsible
ity for success upon himself alone. For
this reason, those who were the first to
recognize the hand of government in
the hard times of the middle nineties
are now unwilling to give due credit to
the government that has brought about
conditions under which good times
prevail
la China. it is said, physicians arc
pad while the patients are we'll: wheL
The patient is sick the pay stops and
does not commence again until he is
on his feet. Ii America we are apt to
regard either political or physical doc
tors as a very worthless class, excep
when we are ILL We give no credit to
continued health, and when we are sick.
we are apt to become 80 scared, like
wise, that we rush to the first quack
whose patent nostrum is most loudly
and glaringly advertised. For this
reason it is sometimes said of certain
physicians that they nurse the illness
rather than the patient.
In 1896 the country was desperately
sick. 1t was not govt. 1t was physical
and nervous prostration brought on by
insufficient diet, lack of exercise and
weak circulation. There were symp-
toms of hysteria. DR.. Bryan came for
ward with an attractive advertiseme nt
DO you feel blue? Are.your muscles
fiabby and weak: Do you have a dark
green taste in your mouth when you
think of your bank account? Is your
commercial pulse low and hutter.ng !?
Have you dread of the morrow? If so,
you have 'Golditis.' Our Free Silver
Remedy cures Low Prices, regulates
Supply and Demand, and makes one
dollar do the work Of two. Free testi-
monials furnished from Mexico, China,
India, Turkey and other highly civil
lzed countries
Very wisely the American people
chose an old-line, reputable physician
OF many years practice and experience.
AS a result the Nation became well and
strong as it is today.
In 1900 the people remembered and
were grateful, but in 1904 they are SO
aboundingly well and strong that they
have commenced to think, some of
Them, that they never needed doctor,
that they weren't very sick in 1890,
and that any old doctor will dol
Democracy this year has abandoned
its old free silver advertisement and
presents sort of ''elective' physician.
For eight years he practiced under
the free silver school although he now
intimates that he did not believe in it
any of the time He is prepared to ad-
minister osteopathy to the trusts. faith
cure TO the. labor problem: homeopathic
reduction pills to the tariff: physical
culture tc the race problem: free silver
to the west; old line gold treatment to
the east and to prescribe "a strictly
vegetarian diet to the army and navy.
He also has an Elixir Of Life to prolong
the usefulness of old soldiers 30 that
they may not ba in need of pensions ct
the sprightly age of si1tytws. No sick
A>n wsals think fer an Instant Of 70.
Tag to such doctor, bat Z well man, Or
a mss wins only bhisks iiaself sick,
will take almost any chances
Tls is the danger Of the present
caMsaigs.
The Denscratis party, ~ We have
said OF some hysicians, i. an
expert at nursing tho illAess rather
than the patient. The sedy polite is
at this time afflicted with Asnersus
oftea attendant upon growth,
full rich blood and hearty constitu-
ion Democracy would have US be.
ieve that these are really dangerous