The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-12-06
ULEYELANUO D OA1.
President Cleveland Submits His
Last Message for the COnsidera-
ti0n of Congress.
He Touches at Length On the Wild
ening Gulf Between Capital
and Labor.
Reduction of the Revenue Advised
"A Year of Tranquility With
All Nations.
The Chinese Question - Treaties
With Other NatiOns-The Ma
tion's PocketbOOk.
Consideration of Reports by the
Various Heads of Departments
The Pension Question.

To the Congress of the United States: AS
you assemble for the discharge OF the duties
you nave assumed as the representatives OF
free and generous people, your meeting is
marked by an interesting and impressive in
cidenr With the expiration of the present
session of the congress the first century OF
our constitutional existence as nation will
be com pleted. Our survival for one hun
dred years is not sufficient to assure us that
we no longer have dangers to fear In the
maintenance with all lis promised blessings
OF government founded upon the freedom
OF the people. The time rather admonishes
US to soberly inquire whether in the
past we have always kept in the course
of safety, or whether we have before US
way, plain and clear. which leads to happi-
ness, to perpetuity. When the experimen
of our government was undertaken, the
chart adopted for our guidance was the con-
stitution, and departure from the lines there
laid down is failu1e. 1t is only by strict
adherence to the direction they indicate, and
by 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, that in The exercise OF its
functions and powers it will deal with the
body of our citizens in a manner scrupulous-
ly honest and fair, 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 tnat 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 hin
clear field for individual endeavor His
tribute to the support of his government was
measured by the costs of its economical
maintenance, and he was secure in the en-
joyment 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 suf
frage of the citizens Combinations, monop-
olles and aggregations OF capital were either
avoided or sternly regulated and restrained.
The pomp 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 en-
noblement and 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. century has passed; our cities are
the abiding places OF wealth and luxury;
our manufacturers WELD fortunes never
dreamed of by the fathers of the republic;
our business men are 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
only a closer scrutiny develops a somber
shading, upon more careful inspection we
find the wealth and luxury of our cities
mingled with poverty and wretchedness and
unremunerative toll A crowded and con-
stantly increasing urban population suggests
the impoverishment of rurcl sections and
discontent with agricultural pursuits. The
farmers son, not satisfied with his fathers
simple and laborious life, joins the larger
chase for easily acquired wealth.