Year: 1879

RABID RADIcALs.-Not a few OF the
Radicals in Pennsylvania are rabid over
the act which was passed during the last
hours OF Congress, putting quinine on
the free list Quinine was made no
where else in the United States except
in Philadelphia, and there two firms had
had a monopoly Of the business since
1878, and amassed immense wealth from
Its sale. The works of one company cover
ten acres of ground, near the city limits.
Quinine has been selling at about SIS
an ounce, because of the high protective
duty upon it. This is the high pnce which
the government was made to pay during
the war, and every poor creature who
has suffered with chills aud ague for the
last half century has been made to con-
tribute to the support of these rich manu-
facturers. No pity is shown to the poor
and afflicted of either sex by the craving
leeches after protection and gain. Penn
sylyanans seem to think the whole
country is not only bound to pay tribute
on her iron and coal, but that even the sick
and distressed must BE- kept bound up
forever by the government to pay tribute
to her manufacturers Of quinine. II is
really laughable to read such ebullitions
of their chagrin at quinine being put on
the free list as the following from one OF
its Radical evening papers


Free whisky, free tobacco, free elec.
tions, and free qunine" is the cry of the
afflicted and long-suilering South. They
have been getting down towards free
whisky and free tobacco pretty fast since
the Democrats have had the upper hand
in Congress free quinine they got yes
terday with a rush during the closin,
hours of the extra session-although how
long the English and French manufac
turers will let 1t be free from heav,
charges is one Of those things that South
en statesmen apparently have not takel
nto active consideration-and free elec
tions, or what pass for such. they have
through the prohibition against the us
of the army as police torce and the re
filsal Of Congress to make an appropria
tion for the deputy marshals and the 81
pervisors. The cry that now ought to z
up from the South is free niggers," br
we suppose that We will have to wait
while for that.


If the Philadelphia paper will go dow
to "League Island" and around Il
Neck of low lands that surround tn
Navy Yard with mo bottom,' perha
1t will find that q quinine is as much nee
cd in Its own city as in the South. r.
poor soldier in the army who was tax
at the rate of $11.OO an ounce for
quinine to benefit rich firm in Phil
delphia is not very likely to agree wi
Congress Notwithstanding what is 81
above. Free whisky" '.free tobact
and 'free elections" are things which
Radicals seem just now to dread, es
cially free elections"


How differently this measure is


garded in other places, may be $
from the following in to-day's N.
Herald:


FREE QUININE.--The abolition of
duty on q'inine will probably make
market price from twenty five to tn
per cent less than it has been, which


be great boon to the people.
medicine is almost one of the nec'
ties of life. 1t is as much necessit
coffee. Some remedies are named
the people generally and though
by them only in connection with


diseases for which they are most L
BY this ordinary association Of !
auinine and fever and ague go toget
aud, indeed, as our whole COUNT
more or less malarious, the widesp
use of the medicine due to malal
n,aladies alone makes it a house
article. But it would be great mis-
to suppose that the control Of NAL
disorders Is the only burden put
this faithful servant. It Is a med
now more extensively used than
one other by physicians Of all scho
allopaths, hom9opaths or any othel
,,.tl,. Lad IN n,Iinine and there ar,