The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-04

the message which are, OF course, OF
importance. The American peo-
pie care more for good sense than for
rhetoric; they are fond OF facts
and are not unduly worried about the
In q general way, h mes
In remarkable for h wide range
OF topics to which IL makes
passing reference. In brief review, its
introduction recites the relations which
the United States hold with foreign
powers, referring particularly to the i'm
portant results that may flow from the
conference of the representatives of the
governments of North and SOuth
America. The army m navy, home
affairs and foreign relations, copyright
and coast defense, commerce.. bank
ruptcy and postal affairs and the In
dian question, are among the themes to
which attention Is given.
Regarding the question Of pensions,
the message has no suggestion OF ac-
count to soldiers of the republic and
gives not even u passing reference to
the recommendations of Secretary
Proctor. As to civil service, n
President mildly reflects the ~utterances
of his inaugural, leaving the country in
doubt as to his opinion of n conduct
Of the civil service commission and re-
peating platitudes which do not har-
mOniZe with his own conduct and
which are as insincere. when measured
by his action, as the deciamations OF
any national convention.
Every reader of the STANDARD will
wonder why President Harrison failed
put himself Oh record on the ques-
ton of the transcOntinental railroads
and the people of the Northwest. The
story runs hat the white GUS knows
about what il going on in this sec
ton Of the Union, as the official house
hold has u representative i'm Montana,
i'm the person of the Presidents son
whose chief title to nOtOriety is that he
il a ~busybOdy i'm other mems matters.
II the royal infant had not been chiefly
engaged i'm coaxing the President to
help along i'm the contamination of
fraud i'm the Montana election returns,
there would doubtless have been space
in the message for refer
to the fight which this
new state il waging against an AFRO
giant railway corporation. II fight so
large i'm its proportions that it is well
entitled to mention. at least, i'm any
message of any president.
However, the average western man
will forgive anything il only the mes
sage takes broad grounds on the silver
question. Read what Mr.. Harrison
says on that question. Give all else i'm
the presidents columns of annual talk
the merest passing glance, if you
choose. but sean closely the paragraphs
touching the silver question, m then
make up your mind as to where the re-
publican President of the United States
on this vital question. The Ian
guage of tine message itself il too plain
to nee any added comment. On this
cardinal question, n message is absO-
lutely without remark that is friendly
to the cause of silver, the best inten-
tiOns of the President finding express
sion in the sentence that 'he has been
able to give only a hasty examination
to the subject. owing to the pressure of
other matters!"
Every line of the message referring
to the silver question il carefully
quoted in the columns of the STAN
DARD this morning. These show Pres
ident Harrison To be actually afraid of
the coinage of silver, opposed to its
Rance with the sentiment which shows
how the debtor class of this country
may proft by its liberal purchase. To
put the situation i'm a sentence, we af-
firm that this country has not read.
in sixteen years, a more cOwardly
message to congress on the silver ques-
ton than hat of President Harrison
and IL any republican newspaper wishes
to call this broad declaration in ques-
ton, this is the proper time and place
start the discussion.
Time n again, the STANDARD has
asserted that the hope of the West is in
congress-, not in the President. Read
the tlabby phrases of the Harrison mes
i'm relation to silver, as we print
them this morning. and see whether
they sustain that declaration.