Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-09
Some Things the President Says in
His Message.

terised our relations and correspondence
with other governments. No obstacle is
believed to exist that can long postpone
the consideration and adjustment of the
still pending questions upon satisfactory
and honorable terms. The dealings of
this government with other states have
been, and should always be. marked by
frankness and sincerity, our purposes
avowed, and our methods free from in
trigue.
Our relations with China have the at
tentive consideration which their magni-
tude and interest demand. While our
supreme interests demand the exclusion
of laboring element which experience
has shown to be incompatible with our
social life, ali steps to compass this I'M
perative need should be accompanied
with a recognition of the claim of those
strangers now lawfully among US, to hu-
name and just treatment
The report of the secretary OF the
treasury for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1889, has been prepared, and will be
presented to congress. 1t presents with
clearness the fiscal operations of the
government, and 1 avail myself of it to
obtain some facts for use here.
The aggregate receipts from all sources
for the year were $3S7, ,O50, ,058 81, derived
as follows From customs, 1928 ,632, 74l.-
60; from internal revenne, $130, ,S9l, ,513.-
90; from miscellaneous sources, So, $780,
bo avnpn6iturpS for
the same period were 1921, 1896, 615. 60,
and the total expenditures, including the
sinking fund, were $329, ,579 ,929.25. For
the current fiscal year the total revenues,
actual and estimated, are $3.50, ,0OO, 900
and the ordinary expenditures, actual
and estimated, are $293, ,O0O, 900, making
with the sinking fund, a total eXpendi-
ture of $341, 1921, 1869, leaving an esti-
mated surplus of S43, ,67S, ,S63.O1.
The existence of so large an actual and
anticipated surplus should have the i'm
mediate attention of congress, with a
view to reducing the receipts of the treas
ury to the needs of the government as
closely as may be. The collection of
moneys not needed for public uses i'm
posing an unnecessary burden on our
people, and the presence of so large a
surplus in the public vaults is disturbing
element in the conduct of private busi-
ness.
| recommend a revision of our tariff
law, both in it's administrative features
and in the schedules. The need of the
former is generally conceded, and an
agreement upon the evils and incoEveni-
ences to be remeded and the best method
for their correction will probably not be
difficult.
The preparation of a new schedule OF
customs duties is matter of great deli
cacy, because of its great effect upon the
business of the country, and of great
difficulty by reason of the wide divergence
of opinion as to the objects that may
properly be promoted by such legislation
The inequalities of the law should be adj
jnsted, but the protective principle should
be maintained and fairly applied to the
products of our farms as well as of oul
shops. These duties necessarily have re
lation to other things besides the public
revenues We cannot limit their effects by
fixing our eyes on the public treasury
alone. They have a direct relation tt
home production, to work, to wages, anC
to the commercial independence of oul
country, and the wise and patriotic legis
lator should enlarge the field of his vision
to include all of these.
Tba in r,nh1i, f,
revenues can, / am sure, be made withou
making the smaller burden more onerou:
than the larger by reason of the disabili
ties and limitations which the process o
reduction puts upon both capital and labor
Judged by modern standards, we are
practically without coast defences. Man.
of the structures we have would enhance
rather than diminish the perils of thei
garrisons if subject to the fire of i'm
proved guns.
, The security of our coast cities agans
foreign attack should not rest altogethe
in the friendly disposition of other ma
: tions. There should be a second lin
wholly in our own keeping. very ur
gently recommend an appropriation a
! this session for the construction of sucl
worka in our most exposed harbors
The Improvement of our important riv
: ers and harbors should be promoted b.
a the necessary appropriations. A wor
once considerably begun should not b
subjected to the risks and deterioratio
which interrupted or insufficient appro
priations necessarily occasion.
Earnest attention should be given b
: Congress to a consideration of the ques
tion how far the restraint of those CON
binations of capital commonly calle
p ttrusts'' is matter of Federal jurisdiction
: When organized, as they often are. t
crush out all healthy competition and t
n monOpolize the production or sale of a
article of commerce and general necessity
they are dangerous conspiracies agains
the public good, and should be made tn
subject of prohibitory and even penal lie.
islation.
!, The report of the Secretary of the Nav
g shows reorganization of the Bureaus
= the Department that will, I do not doub
: promote the efficiency of each.
- In general satisfactory progress hs
! been made in the construction of the ne
! ships of war authopized by Congress.
;. l recommend that congress grant
- pension to such honorably discharge
;, soldiers and sailors of the Civil War a
having rendered substantial services du
\ ing the war, are now dependent upe
their own labor for a maintenance, al
) by disease or casualty are incapacitate
from earning it. Many of the men wi
would be included in this form of reli
l. are now dependent upon public aid, al
r, it does not, in my judgement, compo
ot with the national honor that they sh
continue to subsist upon the local reli
given indiscriminately to pauperS insts;
y of upon the special and generous pro
at sion of the Nation they served SO gallal
n ly and unselfishly. Our people will, 1
mr. sure, very generally approve such leg
- lation. And 1 am equally sure that I
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