Good Old Democratic Times

Anv olie now living at the age of 45 or ver can easily remember the last term f ;i democratie adminietration. Attention has already been called to hc tact that President Buchanan'a iirst íessage to a democratie congress was lmost a literal twin of President Cleveand'.s message to a democratie congress. 'hose who recall those days wilt also iud that "good old democratie times" ican now about what thev did then. Curreucy was acaree. Faetones closed, hrowing men and women out of employicnt. Business houses failed. Before he end of the last democratie term the reasury was empty as it threatens to be 10 w. All tlit' gymptome of the two periods ire as much alike as if the democratie officials now in control were only so nanv Kip Van Winkles, who went to leep more than 30 years ago and woke up only to begin where they left off. The resemblancc, however is not a personal but an inherited likeness. ?hey are chips off the old block. The ons are like the sires. The duckling ushes from the broten egg in the water uid Bwinu as easily as its ancestrv did. 'he young tiger hunts its prey in the ame inanner as its forefathers. Tlie lemocratic party of to-day plunges into alamity as naturally as the duckling in he pond, and preys upon business as he tiger kitten leaps upon a lamb. In only one particular is there any lifference between "good old democraic times" and modern democratie times. Vith the exception of silver the money of the country now conunands the confilenceof the people. Then scarcely any of it did so. It was a wild rat currency, ireulating only a few miles from the ank which put it out and paralyzing he business of the land. There are ymptoms that the democratie party is ;etting ready for this sign of its advent at Washington thus helping those "good )ld democratie times." The Chicago ilatform calla tor it and a majority of he party in congress are in favor of t.- Det. Journal.