The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-12-13
B0ttinenu Pioneer.
JOHN W BENNETT, Editor & Publisher.
BOTTINEAU, Dakota.
GROWERS LAST one.
President Cleveland Submits His
Last Message for the Considera-
ton Of Congress. 4.
He Touches at Length On the Wild
Auing Gulf Between Capital
and Labor. -
Reduction of the Revenue Advised
A Year of Tranquility With
All Nations. 49,
-. 49, r
The Chinese Question - Treaties
With Other Nations-The Ma
tons POcketbo0k.
Consideration Of Reports by the
Various Heads Of Departments
The Pension Question.
Reduction Of the Revenue Advised
A Year of Tranquility With
All Nations.
The Chinese Question - Treaties
With Other Nations-The Ma
tons POcketbOOk.
Consideration Of Reports by the
Various Heads Of Departments
The Pension Question.

Eou assemble for the discharge Of the duties
you have assumed as the representatives of
free and generous people, your meeting is
marked by an interesting and impressive in
cldent. With the expiration of the present
session OF the congress the first century Of
our constitutional existence as q nation will
be completed. Our survival for one hun
dred years is not sufficient to assure us that
we nc longer have dangers to fear in the
maintenance with all it's promised blessings
OF q government founded upon the freedom
OF the people. The time rather admonishes
ca to soberly inquire whether in the
past we have always kept in the course
OF safety, or whether we have before us o
way, plain and clear, which leads to happi-
cess, to perpetuity. When the experiment
OF our government was undertaken, the
chart adopted for our guidance was the con-
stitution, and departure from the lines there
laid down ia failure. II is only by a strict
adherence to the direction they indicate, and
~ restraint within the limitations they fixed,
that we can furnish proof to the world Of
the fitness of the American people for self
government The equal and exact Justice Of
which we boast as the underlying principle
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. thati In the exercise Of it's
functions and powers tt will deaf with the
body OF our citizens in q manner ~Ecrupulous-
~ honest and fair, and absolutely just It
has agreed that
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
shall be the only credential necessary to
Justify the claim of equality before the law
and tnst no condition in life shall give rise
to discrimination in the treatment Of the
apostle by the government. The citizen OF
our republic in it's early day rigidly insisted
upon full compliance with the letter of this
bond. and saw stretching out before him q
clear field for Individual endeavor. His
tribute to the support Of his government was
measured by the costs of it's economical
maintenance, and he was secure in the en-.
toyment Of the remaining recompense of his
steady life and contented with it In those
days the frugality OF the people was stamped
upon their government, and was enforced
by the free, thoughtful and intelligent SUI
frage Of the citizens Combinations, monop-
olIes n iaggregations Of capital were either
avoided or sternly regulated and restrained.
The pomp and glitter Of governments less
free offered 10 temptation an presented no
delusion to the plain people who side by side
IN friendly competition wrought for the en-
noblement n dignity of man, for the solu-
ton Of the problem Of free government and
for the achievement of the grand destiny
awaiting the land which God has given
Them. Acentury has passed; our cities are
the abiding places OF wealth andl luxury;
our manufacturers WELD fortunes never
dreamed Of by the fathers of the republic;
our business men ara madly striving in the
race for riches and immense aggregations of
capital outrun the Imagination in the mag
nitude Of their undertakings. We view with
pride and satisfaction this bright picture of
our country's growth and prosperity. While
oniy q closer scrutiny de velops a somber
shading, upon more careful inspe ction we
ind the wealth and luxury of our cities
mingled with poverty and wretchedness and
un.emunerative toll A crowded. and con-
stautly increasing urban population suggests
the impoveriahm emit Of rursl sections and
discomfort With agricultural pursuits The
SaImer's son, not satisfied with his fathers
simple and laborious life, joins the larger
chase for easily acquired wealth.