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cavities not too.highly developed have im¬ 
proved considerably and are almost cured; 
and only in those whose lungs contain 
large cavities can no improvement be 
proved. The inference is thatconsumption, 
when treated in the early stages, can cer¬ 
tainly be cured by this remedy, though of 
course no conclusive experience can yet exist 
to prove that the cure is lasting. Relapses 
may occur, but it can be assumed that they 
they can be cured as quickly as the first 
attack. On the other hand, it seems not 
unlikely that,as in other infectious diseases, 
patients once cured may retain immunity 
from another attack. The remedy does 
not kill the tubercle bacillus, but the tuber¬ 
culous tissue inclosing it It can influence 
living tuberculous tissue only and has no 
effect on dead tissue. In such tissue living 
bacilli may still possibly be present and 
are either thrown off with the necrosed tis¬ 
sue or may possibly enter the neighboring 
and still living tissues; hence, first, the 
living tuberculous tissue must be caused 
to undergo necrosis, and then every 
thing must be done to remove the dead 
tissue as soon as possible. The fact 
that the remedy kills the tuberculous 
tissue and acts only on living tissue 
explains the phenomenon that though ex¬ 
tremely active it can be given in rapidly 
increasing doses, for it is found that the 
dose in about three weeks can be increased 
to 500 times the original quantity. The ex¬ 
planation is that at the beginning of the 
treatment there is a good deal of tuber¬ 
culous living tissue and that consequently 
a small amount of the active principle 
suffices to cause a strong reaction. But 
after each injection, a certain amount of 
the tissue capable of reacting disappears 
and then larger doses are necessary to pro¬ 
duce the same amount of reaction as before. 
Such Is the briefest possible acc unt of 
the chief points in Professor Koch’s benefi¬ 
cent discovery, which appears destined to 
effect a marvelous revolution in theraneu- 
tics, the world over. 
AFTER ELECTION VIEW. 
The latest election returns show clearly 
that the farmers’ movement has had a 
powerful effect on political matters alike 
in the National and State legislatures and 
in local affairs. It has accomplished far 
more within the two old parties than at 
first appeared. It has toppled the dominant 
parties from control in several of the States; 
it has made sure of a respectable farmer 
representation in both Houses of the next 
Congress, and in a large number of the 
State legislatures, but more significant 
still are the local revolutions it has 
wrought in a thousand minor political dis¬ 
tricts where a change of control nas been 
swift and unexpected. It happens that 
the granger revolt from old political domin¬ 
ation has resulted in a tremendous Demo¬ 
cratic victory; but the Democrats will make 
the most egregious mistake of their lives 
if they interpret the result as a distinct tri¬ 
umph for their own party. The farmer’s 
muscular right has just delivered a knock¬ 
out blow to the most successful of the old 
parties—that now in power—its brawny 
left may, two years hence, strike out with 
equal force and effect against the other. 
It may be necessary to teach both alike a 
severe lesson before either will acknowledge 
the rights of the tiller of the soil and his 
determination and power to enforce them. 
Here are a few of the effects of his first 
bout in the political arena. 
The present Lower House of Congress 
consists of 177 Republicans and 153 Demo¬ 
crats, so that the Republicans have a ma 
jority of 23. The next House will con 
sistof230 Democrats, 93 Republicans and 
eight Alliance men from old-time Republi¬ 
can States. Colonel T. L Polk, President 
of the National Farmers’ Alliance, says 
that up to the present time there is a 
certainty that the House will contain 
at least 38 straight-out Alliance men, 
besides from 12 to 15 others who are pledged 
to the Alliance. In the present House there 
are only a baker’s dozen farmer Represen¬ 
tatives, so that there will be a very decent 
increase in the next; but they will not hold 
the balance of power, as was hoped; for 
the Democrats have such an overwhelming 
majority that they outnumber the Repub¬ 
licans aud Alliance men combined. Still 
the influence the Alliance and kindred ag¬ 
ricultural organizations can bring to bear 
on Congressmen belonging to the two old 
parties is so great that the agricultural in¬ 
terest is likely to have far more power in 
the next Congress than in any that has 
ever existed. 
The South is still solidly Democratic, 
whether controlled by the old party or by 
the Farmers’ Alliance and the other labor 
and agricultural associations that have 
been cooperating with it. Failing to secure 
their demands from the Democratic party 
in Arkansas, some of these started in to aid 
the more compliant Republicans, but dur¬ 
ing the campaign most of these swung into 
line with their old associates, and the State 
went Democratic by increased majorities. 
In Texas, and also in Alabama, the Farm¬ 
ers’ Alliance went into the field too early 
in the season, to capture the Democratic or¬ 
ganizations; but the old “war-horses,” hav¬ 
ing ample time, so manipulated matters 
that they captured the Alliance. In Texas, 
however, the organization secured the nom¬ 
ination of Attorney General Hogg for Gov¬ 
ernor on account of his vigorous action 
against the railroad pool, which had made 
extortionate freight and passenger rates. 
With his triumphant election a constitu¬ 
tional amendment has been passed provid¬ 
ing for the establishment of a State Rail¬ 
road Commission with ample powers to reg¬ 
ulate traffic and make reasonable freight 
and passenger rates. It also ordains that 
the public lands shall henceforth be sold 
only to actual settlers, instead of, as here¬ 
tofore, in large tracts, chiefly to capitalists, 
cattle kings and syndicates. Owing to the 
vast size of the State and to the fact that 
in joining the Union, in 1845, it retained 
its rights to all the enormous domain of the 
Texas Republic, the Lone Star State still 
owns a vast amount of school and other pub¬ 
lic lands. 
In the rock-ribbed Republican States the 
struggle was probably fiercest in Kansas, 
where the Republicans, Democrats and 
Farmers’ Alliance had each a State ticket 
in the field. This was the banner Republi¬ 
can State two years ago, having given a 
majority of 82,000 for Harrison, and sent 
seven Republicans and only two Democrats 
to Congress, and elected a State legislature 
overwhelmingly Republican. Now the 
legislature has a fair majority of Alliance 
men. Humphrey, the Republican candi¬ 
date for governor, has only about 6,000 ma¬ 
jority over Willetts, the farmers’ candidate, 
while the Congressional delegation con¬ 
sists of five Alliance-Democrats and two 
Republicans. Ingalls, the brilliant, learned, 
eloquent, vitriolic United States Senator, 
whose term expires on March 4, 1891, is 
bitterly opposed by the Alliance, and it is 
not improbable that Willetts, or even Rob¬ 
inson, the Democratic candidate for gov¬ 
ernor, may be elected to succeed him. He 
is going to fight, however, and it is said 
that 30 of the Alliance men who secured 
their nominations from the order as op¬ 
ponents to the Senator, were really pledged 
to support him. Backed by these and the 
regular Republicans, he would have 95 
votes, or 12 more than enough to elect him. 
Among the Kansas Alliance men and 
among members of the order elsewhere 
also, there is a growing determination to 
effect a union of all the agricultural asso¬ 
ciations, and start a Farmers’ Party early 
enough to take part in the Presidential 
contest in 1892. 
In Illinois the legislature, on joint ballot 
consists of 101 Republicans, 100 Democrats 
and three representatives of the Farmers’ 
Mutual Benefit Association. These, there¬ 
fore, hold the balance of power, and in the 
election of a United States Senator to sue 
ce?d Far well, their action will be decisive. 
General John M. Palmer is the Democratic 
candidate, and Farwell wants to succeed 
himself as the Republican. Palmer was 
nominated to be elected by a popular vote 
as far as that could be done, and at the age 
of 74 he has carried on a splendid campaign 
on that basis, and as the farmers favor the 
election of Senators directly by the people, 
It is claimed that he will get the votes of 
the trio. On the other hand, the Repub¬ 
licans maintain that because they were 
formerly staunch Republicans they will 
vote with their old associates. In the 
present Congress Illinois has seven Demo¬ 
cratic Representatives and thirteen Repub¬ 
licans; in the next she will have fourteen 
Democrats and six Republicans. 
In Nebraska, the farmers have secured 
entire control of the legislature, though 
the Democrats have elected the governor. 
In the present Congress the Nebraska dele¬ 
gation consists of three Republicans ; in 
the next it will consist of two Alliance 
men and one Democrat. 
In Minnesota Merriam, Republican, has 
been elected to the governorship by 2,500 
majority. There were three tickets in 
the field, the Alliance vote being less 
than two-thirds of either of the others. The 
Alliance men, however, hold the balance 
of power in the legislature. 
In Wisconsin the tidal wave was espe¬ 
cially disastrous to the Republicans. The 
Democrats have elected the governor and 
will have a majority of about 30 on joint 
ballot. This means the election of a Demo¬ 
crat to succeed Senator Spooner after 
March 4, next; and a Democrat is also 
likely to succeed Senator Sawyer two years 
hence. The Congressional delegation will 
be changed from seven Republicans and 
two Democrats to seven Democrats and two 
Republicans. Ex-Postmaster General Vilas 
is likely to succeed Spooner. The farmers 
allowed Governor Hoard to fail of a reflec¬ 
tion, but appear to have gained no counter¬ 
balancing advantage. 
In Michigan the whole Democratic ticket 
is elected. The Senate is also Democratic 
by about three majority and the House by 
about fifteen on a fusion with the Patrons 
of Industry, who hold the balance of power. 
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