Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-08
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The Co.dition of the Country Reviewed
Congress Ceusured for Nesiecsins
Necessary Legislation at the tx
peese of ExtravaE1nt Aeasures.
The President Maintains His Position ON
the Tariff; Defeuds BIS Course Toward
Canada and the SackviI1e-West Incl
cent-Fears . Revolution.

the Tariff; Defeuds his Course Toward
Canada and the SackviIle-West Incl
Gent-Fears Revolution.
President Cleyeland's Last
fone Congress Of the United States:
As you assemble for the discharge Of
the duties you have assumed. as the rep
Iesentatives of free and generous peo
DIE, your meeting is marked by an inter
esting and impressive incident and the
expiration Of the present session OF CON
Rress, the first century OF our constItu
uonal existence as nation Will be COM
pleted.
Our survival for one hundred years il
not sufficient to assure Us trial. We No
longer have dangers to fear in the main
tainance with all its promised blessings
ofa government founded upon tie freedom
OF q people. The time rather edmonishes
to soberly inquire whether In the past
we have always closely kept
N the course Of safety and whether We
have before Us a way plain and clear,
which leads to happiness and perpetulty.
The citizen OF our republic In it, early
days rigidly insisted on the compliance
with the letter and the law, stretching
out before him clear field for individual
endeayor. His tribute to the support OF
his government was measured by the
cost of its charter, economical maintain
ance, and he was secure In the enjoy
ment Of the remaining recompense OF
his steady and contented adherence to it
In those days. The frugality OF the peo-
pie was stamped upon their government
ErS ha frao ShnuohSfn!
and intelligent suffrage of the citizen.
Combinations, monopolies and eggresa-
ton of capital were either avoided or
sternly regulated and restrained. The
ponp and glitter OF governments less free
offered no temptation and presented no
delusion to the plain people who side by
side, in friendly competition, wrought for
the enoolement and dignity Of man, for
the solution OF the problem OF free trrde
government and for the achievement OF
the grand destiny awaiting ths land
which God had given them. a century
has passed, our cities are the abiding
places of wealth and luxury; our manu-
factories yield fortunes never dreamed OF
by the father Of the republic our business
men are msdly striving In the race for
riches. Immense aggregstions OF CAPT
tai outrun the imagination IN the msgni-
tuje Of their undertakings.
When the experiment OF our govern
ment was undertaken .hs chart adopted
for our guidance was the constitute IN. A
departure from the lines there laid down
is failure. It Is only by strict adher-
ence to the direction they indicate, and
by restraint within the limitations they
lay, that We can furnish proof to the
world OF the sbility of the American peo-
pie for self government The equal and
exact Justice, OF which We boost as the
underlying princi pie of our institutions,
should not be confined to the
relations of our citizens to each
other. The government itself
Is under bond to the American people
that in the exercise of its functions and
powers it will deal with tie body OF our
citizens In manner scrupulously honest
and absolutely just. 1t has agreed that
American citizenship shall be the Only
credential necessary to justify the claim
Of equality before the law and that no
mation in the treatment OF the people OK
their government.
TWO PICTURES.
We view With pride and satisfaction
this bright picture Of our country's growth
and prosperity, while only closer scru-
tiny develops a sonbre shading. Upon
q more careful inspection We find the
wealth and luxury OF our cities mingled
win poverty and wretchedneSs and unre-
munerate TO IL. 4 crowded and constant
~ increasing population suggests the
impoyehshment OF rural sections and
discomfort with agricultural pursuits.
The farmers son, not satisfied with bis
fathers simple and laborious lie, begins
the chase for easily acquired wealth.
sCRPLCS-TRCsTS-LA
He then denounced the aggregation of
money By trusts and fears tina. the exist
ance OF the nation is threatened by the
corporations which are calculated to
bring communism to the land. He
thinks the surplus in the treasury con-
slant menace as the people Will rise to
throw of the yoke that places the unnec.
essary burden upon them. He accuses
the government of entering into q part
Dership with the rich by which ali the
poor are made to succumb to the combi-
nation and the love of country Is stihad.
He claims that the farmers are daily
growing poorer through the detsrior.
atlon OF their lsnds and the lower.
ing OF prices OF their products.
He says the vorkingmen are CRYING
ter relief and demanding eteadisr EMPLOY.
ment as under the present system they
are last approaching perpetual servitude,
he thinks this condition viii surely bring
an uprising against the government. IL
some relief Is not given.
TIE TARIFF
A just and sensible revision of our far.
m Law should be made for the relief of
our countrymen who suffer under the
present conditions. Such revision
should receive the support Of ell Who
love that Justice of equality due to Amer.
scan cifizsnship; Of all Who realize thst in
thus Justice and equality our government
finds Its strength and its power to protec.
The citizens, and his property:
OF all who believe that the CON
tented competence and comfort of
msny accord better With the spirit of our
institutions than colossal fortnnee nm