The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-12-17
THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS

of Monroe-to avoid complications
with other nati0ns-to turn aside
from entangling alliances and to CON
tent ourselves with the development
of the great area committed to our
charge, though jealousy alert in pre-
venting our American hemisphere
from being involved in the political
problems of distant governments.
For this good reason the President
will not allow this country to bind it
self to preserve the integrity Of the
Congo Basin or to guarantee the pro-
lection of any proposed Nicaraguan
Canal. The Nation, however, has
not withheld its friendly offices in
keeping open the transit across the
lsthmus during the Panama revolu-
ton. He gives black eye to Ar
thurs Nicaraguan treaty, and rather
favors the Tehuantepec railway, its
neutrality and universal use to be
guarded by all powers. The Chinese
laborer in America is to be protected
in good faith, although the right of a
government to prevent the influx of
elements hostile to its internal peace
is not denied. This sugar treaty with
Spain has soured on this administra-
ton, as ceding too much and seour-
ing too little.
The financial paragraphs are quite
simple and lucid. The revenues of
the Government for the past year
were over $780,, 100000, and the ex-
penses over S260,000,00O, leaving a
surplus in the Treasury of sixty-three
million, which was forty million less
than the balance left by the previous
year. The taxes should be kept
down to the actual necessities of the
Government, and to this end it is
suggested that import duties should
be stricken from the necessaries of
life. It's not a question of free trade
or OF protective policy, although the
| President does not believe that indus
tries representing large investments
and guaranteeing good wages should
be. damaged in the tariff revision.
There is no breakdown from the
opposition to the unrestricted coin
age of silver. The President declares
that $50, 000,0 600 silver dollars are ly-
ing dead in the Treasury, while only
about S5O,O00,000 are in actual circu-
lation. The tendency to hoard gold
at the expense of silver has already
commenced, he states and the dan
ger of this ceaseless stream of silver
is that the dollar of the fathers will
become debased and the gold bug.
will become enriched by the enforced
premium of gold while the laborers
wages must depreciate in purchasing
power. The coinage of silver, the
message says, should not outstrip the
necessities of the Government. and
although the present pile may be as
simulated, its continued issue is LA
bic to bring panic in home finance
and invite disaster from foreign
transactions. None of the foreign
powers have as yet adjusted the stan
dards of silver and gold, and the con-
sequence is that our silver dollars,
which are not legal tenders across
the sea, must lie piled like sands on
the seashore and see the gold 90 out
in steady sluices. Believing that
prosperity halts upon our thresh-
hold" the President recommends
that the act compelling the coinage Of
silver be repealed.
The system of army courts-martia
is condemned, and in accordance with
the admirable report of the Secretary
of the Navy, the President recon-
mends complete reorganization o.
the Naval Departments a precedent
to the equipment of the navy. As
now constructed the business meth.
DDS of that department are loose, and
each division makes its own purchas-
es and expenditures regardless of any
central dispensing board There is
consequently much weakness and
waste in this establishment. Ofic.
ials, too, have been so burdened with
details and finance that the inven
tive and constructive powers of off
GERS have not been available for i'm
provements in the feet-its arma
ment and equipment. The Presiden
is in earnest for new navy, believ
ing that Nation which cannot re
sist aggression is constantly expose,
to it.
The Courts of the land are over
burdened and the message suggest
that Congress place restrictions upol
= the right to remove causes from Stat
to Federal Courts-an abuse whicl
Southern people have long since re
cognized and from which, in the past
they have suffered much.
Mr.. Lrmar's suggestion for the APP