Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-05
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

lot " ltiltI llSS stOoNC tiC toIiC oi a Phi- functory attempt to strike the keynote of his administration. The presidents antecedents did not warrant the eXpec- tation of any startling novelty either i'll the line of suggestion or expression, and those who hoped for any such have been disappointed. Those who knew his past career in public life expected nothing striking, and they rose from a perusal of the address confirmed in their belief that our new president is very ordinary kind of man. His letter of acceptance gave hint of what we might expect in any public utterances of official papers, and the impression made by that letter is strengthened by the inaugural address. President Harrison lacks force, original ity and brilliancy, and his state papers will be far below the standard of eX- President Cleveland's.
 The presidents views, whether in re- gard to protection, civil service reform or any other public questions, in so far as they are disclosed by the address, follow in the beaten path of republican, lSIH IllS SttHIc ol ElotStlloh are trumpeted, though the admission is made that "a treasury surplus is a serious evil" Such an admission made before the election would have been the doom of his presidential aspirations. In fact, 1 had President Harrison in his letter of acceptance presented the views of the surplus that he has in his inaugural ad- dress, Senator Quay might have found it 1 impossible to bleed the tariff barons of Pennsylvania for funds to ''divide the floaters into blocks of five" The asser- tion that it is ''the duty of congress to so adjust our revenue laws that no con- siderable annual surplus will re- main is exactly the position held by President Cleveland and de- scribes perfectly the doctrine of able annual surplus" remains from the revenue laws as now adjusted-some hundred millions approximately-that President Cleveland urged the revision of the laws and the reduction of taxa tion. That President Harrison has 1 come around to MT Cleveland's position is encouraging, and if his utterance on this point could be taken for a guar antee of what his party will do it would do much to quiet the misgivings of the country. But such is not the case. The party is for high taxes, the spirits who guide its policy and control it's destinies are irrevocably and irretrievably slaves of capital and instruments of monopoly. Under republican administration it is not the revenue laws, but the governss mental expenditures, that will be ''so adjusted that no con- siderable annual surplus will remain
 In view of the rush that has already
 to note that to President Harrison ''hon- orable party service will certainly not
 be esteemed disqualification for pub
 lie office." He might have expressed it
 differently and said at once that party service would be an eminent qualitica- tion therefor. But it has become fash
 ionable apparently to talk in a Pickwick-
 ian vein about this greatest of modern l political humbugs, and President liar.
 rison is in the fashion. He probably tip
 ped a wink, though, to the party, and anyone that wants to know his real sen
 timents concerning the civil service are
 referred to his record in the senate, when
 according to the man who is now to con
 trol his actions, he applied for thirteen
 more consulships than there were on the
 whole list President Harrison never was believer in any other
 civil service reform than that which put , republicans in and democrats out o office, and he isn't going back on his re cord now. Democrats who are holding office will build their house on sand i they swallow the stuff that was peddlet out to them yesterday.
 The one statement that will arrest at , tention in the address, and that vii
 meet the approval of every true Ameri can is that wherein he says: II have
 altogether rejected the suggestion of ; special executive policy for any section , of our country" We have had enough
 of carpet by governments in the south
 enough of bloody shirts trailing thei , gory course over the land, and any effor , t. retard the growth of the south by fed eral i.te ference would meet the approva , only of the Forakers and Fairchilds an, l Chandlers who feed on sectiona
 hatred like vampire on blood t The remaining portions of the addres l will excite little attention, and takel t altogether it has less interest than vii 0 be felt at the first utterances from tn s state department where the controllin :, spirit Of this administration is installed t The country is more concerned wit e James C.. Blaine's views than with Pres '- ldent Harrison's, and the inaugura dTy ,x>f% l,%%- IA. r '