The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-12-16
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

It cannot be denied and it must b.
confessed that the message Of the Pres
ident is a great disappointment to ev,
cry Dakosaian, for we fail to find in
it., one word, either of encouragement,
Or hope that our great territory which
in the highest sense absorbs Sc large a
measure of the public thought, will
secure that attention which It's impor'
lance demands. On Dakota and its
PARAMOUNT necessities our President is
dumb.
Though d document able and elabo.
rate and in many respects exhaustive
and certainly lengthy; except in one
respect; it does not 70 &c the sent.
ment Of the Democracy Or people
Of the Northwest. To paraphrase
b very much worn out expression
Attributed to our esteemed Excou.
tive, the m sage may be said to be a
gem Of consaetudinal innocuousness,
for it is to be feared; that, lacking
the vigorous, emphatic. and assertive
influence which a Presidential recon-
mendaticn should have, it will go I'M
needed and unrecognized as many a
message has done that has gone that
way before It.
Upon n Of the great live issues of
the day, however, involving the ques-
zion Of the disposition of the constant
~ increasing surplus revenue of the
sountryy its sound is not uncertain
and there is great reason to, believe
Chat in the genuine earnestness that
tharacterizes his Recommendation on
Che subject Of the tariff; the promised
measure Of relief which the country
SO imperatively demands, there is hopes
may spselily
Upon this subject we quote from Il
recent article in the St. Paul Globe!
which is dehomfiinated byi it as the great
tariff extortion.' What it therein. says
# Minnesota is true Of and applicable
to Dakota,' which, SO far as the Presi-
dents message is concerned, Is sun.
known, unhonored and unsung." The
Globe says:
There is one sentence in the presidents
message which will attract the attention Of
the Minnesota farmers 1t is the one which
occurs in his discussion Of tariff reduction,
and read,'as follows "our farmers, too,
and those engaged directly and indirectly
in supplying the products Of agriculture
see that day by day, and as often as the
daily want, OF their households recur, they
are forced to pay excessive and needless
taxation, while their products struggle III
foreign markets with the competition o
natiols which, by allowing a frecr exchang,
ef pro ~luctions than we permit enable then
people to sell for prices which, dis tess tie
American, farmer" That is a picture so
familiar to every Norta*esterh farmer tina
none will fail to Recognize it. lie knows
that the protecSise pol .cy has rcluced the
price Of his wheat and his farm, products.
He never sits down to y meal nor stretches
himself for rest on his couch that, he due,
NOT realize that in procuring these comforts
he has paid a tax into the treasury OF some
manufacturing or ~impo.ting firm which on
iy serves to- make them richer and to max
him poorer. The President has succeeded
ip drawing o homely picture O. the extor-
ton Of our system Of felerul taxation that
will be q more for i IL argument 10 the
minlssof ,Minac s,ta farYn srse ip,r favor Of ia
riff revision thar all the elegant sopbistries
that the advocates Of proseetion canlile up
from now until doomsday.
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