The Russellville Democrat., 1889-12-19
The Presidents Message.

will m US entirety ma lew reaueFs. The following synopsis will suffice and serve to indicate it's general tenor: Foreign relations, which are eminently satisfactory, first receive attention. The country is congratu- lated on the assembling at Washing ton of the various international con ventions. The new Brazilian repub- lie is given God speed. The excess of receipts oyer expenditures for tue year is estimated at $60,000, 900. This surplus should be looked after and diminished not by anticipating our bonds nor by ''loaning of public funds to the banks without interest.
 A revision of the tariff laws IS urged. Says MT. Harrlson:
 Some disturbances of business may perhaps result from the consid- eration of this subject by congress, but this temporary ill effect will be reduced to the minimum by prompt action and by the assurance which the country already enjoys that any necessary changes will be so made as not to imperil the just and reason able protection of our industries. The inequalities of the laws should be adjusted, but the protective principle should be maintained and fairly applied to the products of our farms as we'll as of our shops. These duties necessarily have re- lations to other things besides the public revenues. We cannot limit their effects by fixing our eyes on the public treasury alone. They have direct relation to home pro- duction, to work, to wages and to the commercial independence of our country, and the wise and patriotic legislator should enlarge the field of his vision to include all of these.
 The necessary reductions in our public revenues can, l am sure, be made without making the smaller burden more onerous than the larg CT by reason of the disabilities and Limitations which the process of re- ductlon puts upon both capital and labor. The free list can very safely be extended by placing thereon articles that do not offer injurious to such domestic pro ducts as our home labor can supply.
 The removal of the internal tax upon tobacco would relieve an i'm portant agricultural product from burden which was imposed only be cause our revenue from custom duties was insufficient for the public needs. If safe provision against fraud can be devised the removal of the tax upon spirits used in the arts and in manufactures would also offer an unobjectionable method of re- ducing the surplus.
 The amount of National Bank notes in circulation has decreased during the last year $37, ,799, 299. The quantity of gold and silver coin in circulation and of gold and silver certificates has increased, the net in crease of the circulatory medium be- ing $599, 225, 1O3. In other words there is $5 per capita more money in the country to day than year ago. Neither Secretary Windom nor Secretary Falrchild issued the coinage of silver allowed by law. The president is inclined to favor the plan of issuing silver certificates upon the depositing of silver bullion at It's market value. He says: II have always been an ad- vocate of the use of silver in onr currency, we are large producers of the metal and should not discredit it. Any safe legislation must secure the the equality of gold and silver"
 Coast defences should be provid- ed for more literally. "The securi- ty of our coast cities against foreign attacks should not rest altogether Tn the friendly disposition of other nations Liberal appropriations should be made for the improvement of our rivers and harbors. Fuller protection should be extended to judges, jurors and witnesses. The salaries of the judges should be in creased. An international copy. right law should be enacted. Not agreeing with Secretary Blaine that "trusts are private affairs" the Pres Ident recommends that the subject of ''prohibitory and even final legis lationn concerning them should be A revision of the natu ralization laws, in order to keep out criminals and anarchists, is sugges ted. The recommendation Of the Postmaster General regarding in creased efficiency in postal service are laid before congress. The gen era! condition of the navy is declar- ed better than ever. The American seamcn at Samoa recieves word of appropriate compliment. Snbstan- tial progress has been made in the education of the Indians. There should be continued co operation be tween the federal and mission schools.
 The breaking of tribal relations and the treatment of the Indian as an individual is declared to have
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