The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-12-19
The President. Business, Industry.

Ihe President Business, Industry.
The abstract of the elaborate
message of President Cleveland.
given in tO-dsy's paper, intelligent
ly and fully presents the views of
the new executive on all the vaIi-
GUS questions he discusses. Many
details of limited interest to the
general newspaper reader. are
necessarily embraced in the first
message of a president whose ad.
ministration dates a political de
parture in the government after
nearly quarter Of a century of
practically unbr0ken rule of one
party; but the vital points affect
ing our finances, our currency,
our commerce aud our industry,
will be carefully aud considerably
read by every political faith.
AS has been clearly foreshad
owed III these columns, President
Cleveland gives the most positive
assurance to business aud indus
try. There is no ambiguity in his
language. What he believes he
says; what he says he means, and
he meets the question of revenue
reform with a degree of candor
and hdelity to our great business
aud industrial interests, that must
command the general approvesl
of business circles and the cordial
trust of the whole nation.
The assumed protection leaders,
who have come to the front in the
face of the demand of the republi.
can platform in favor of tariff re-
vision aud revenue reduction, to
forbid any modification of our rev.
enue laws, must be balted IN their
folly by the plain and pointed
expression Of the president, unless
their ill.advisad zeal for the mo
nopoiy features Of protection has
wholly clouded their judgment.
AS this Journal has repeatedly as
sured them, they will have faith
full ally in the Cleveland admiuis-
tration for just snch protection to
American labor, aud their duty is
so plain that he who runs may
read, to cordially co operate with
the administration in the reduc
ton of revenues OIL tho basis OF
the message.
The widespread apprehension
in business aud industrial cilcles,
that a democratic administration
might uusettle business trust aud
imperil our vast industrial enter
prise by tariff revision IN the drift
toward free trade, is now dissipa
ted by the broad aud positive dee
larations of both the president and
secretary of the treasury, ant
both capital and labor can accept
tho assurance that there can b,
no shock to their prosperity Will,
Grover Cleveland shall be presi
dent. This emphatic assurance tt
! our business aud industry mus
quiet all unrest created by reck
less partisans, and our business
!. aud industrial channels can Civ,
, to the government their heart,
co operation and confidence.
The clear and uneQuivocal as
surance given to business aud in
dustry by the official utteranceI
from the president and the treas
! ury department should at one,
( change the attitude of the friend
K of protection to American labor
They entered the present congres
. with the chief protection inhu
ences impelling them to take
stand against any and every forr
of tariff REVISION. Inconsisten
and indefensibls as that position
: is, considering the positive deliy
!. erance of the republican platform
IN favor of tariff revision aud re
, duced revenues, it is pow eve
/ more plainly inconsistent and in
= defensible when the administrs
c tion proposes the tariff revisio
tnelr PLATFORM demanded ana Ell
phasizes his purpose to maintsi
our industries and give adequat
3 protection to American labol
The president does not seek 70
snperrefned expressions to oil
scure his views OH the tariff.
He calls protection to America
Y labor by its proper name; he d.
clares it to be insuperably intel
;. woven with our great source G
- national wealth, aud if in the fac
: of this assurance to our bushes
and industry, the assumed repr,
" sentatives of protection refuse {
fulfill their own voluntary pledg
II to the country for revenue redu,
ton, they must cease 10 comman