Wichita eagle., 1889-02-01
HIS POLICY.

| An Intelligent Forecast Of What President
Harrison VIII Do-His Inaugural and
His Cabinet.
General Harrison n presumed to be a,
work In the preparation of his inaugural
address and making up his mind as to tbs
formation of his Cabinet. He has vas,
field Of duty before him, and his sense OF
responsibility displays itself, not in talka-
tiveness and the vivacity Of personal ex'
element but in the reserve of his utter
ances and the constant and candid serious
ness of his spirit of inquiry. While nothing
has been said by any of the very able gen
tlemen who are connected with the press
and are soiourning in Indianapolis that they
may convey with the atmospheric effects
from that city the intelligence that informs
or misinforms the people, it is yet apparent
that progress may, upon general appear
ances, be reported. 1t seems to be settled
that there will go into the Cabinet Repub-
hcan from some one of the Southern States,
and one from the Pacific States, and one
from the Northwest, one from New En-
gland and one from New York, and one
from Pennsylvania, and this arrangement
leaves one from the region north Of the
Ohio river, east of the Mississippi and south
of the great lakes.
Further particulars can be deferred. In
the same large way the outlines of the in
augural may with some certainty be traced.
The country is already fully assured that
the Harrison Administration will be IN
favor of the revision of the tariff with a
view to its reformation-that is to say, to
the adjustment of details that it shall be
equitable, and to the reduction of revenue
that it may not be superfuous; and these
things are to be accomplished along with
evolution OF scientific system OF protection
OF American Industries. Customs duties
carefully studied with a view of discrimi-
mating in favor of ourselves, can be defined
with exactness, and the political economy
which teaches US to do this is one of the
sciences. 1t is the will of the people that
the revised and reformed system shall be
maintained, and we may be sure that the
inaugural will contain an affirmation OF the
public judgment.
There is no doubt, says the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, that it will be the
policy of the Harrison Administration to deal
with breadth of liberty with the soldiers,
to hasten to perfect the pension legislation,
which has been permitted to fall into con-
fusion; to deal justly-justice to be inter-
preted in the spirit at once of gratitude
and of generosity-with those who person
ally contributed to the force of arms that
saved the country, remem bering at the
same time that the Republican party can
afford-for its record is all right from the
beginning-to draw the line strictly upon
that which is just and fair alike to the
soldiers and to all citizens. The inaugural
will not fail in this respect to express the
sentiments of craftsmanship with the SYM
pathy of a soldier
First in action will be the urgency for tho
admission of the half-dozen new States
that are waiting in the far Northwest-the
two Dakotas, Washington, Wyoming, Mon
tana and Idaho, while New Mexico. Utah
and Arizona shall pause. One good reason
for this is because it is right. Territories
that should have been States have been bar
ricaded out of the Union because their adj
mission would have increased the margin
that the Democratic party would have been
obliged to put up in addition to the solid
South before overcoming the whole coun-
try with their evil system; and not only is
it needful as matter OF deferred righteous
ness and the accomplishment of justice
grown weary, but it is demanded for the
imperial reason that it gives ability for the
performance of good works. 1t Is the pur-
pose, of course, of the Republican party to
extend and consolidate its power that the
capacity to bestow the benehcence of its
policy upon the country may be continued
and abide. This the inaugural can not omit
to consider.
Last and greatest of all, most intricate,
difficult, delicate, the questions that re-
late TO the sectionaIisrns that have been
developed and consolidated in that part Of
the country which has been afflicted with
slavery and with war. 1t is in the treat
ment of the sectional-the Southern-ques-
ton, involving the question OF races, that
we reach the higher sphere OF statesman
ship The handing of those issues VIII Try
the courage and temper, the patriotism and
the humanity of those who must mark out
the paths to be pursued fer the redemption
of the people and the saving OF the Nation.
No man can venture 10 put words IN Gen
eral Harrisons mouth, or to write the sen
fences that are to define his position, in this
grave matter. His lips alone may speak.
and his pen only can trace the -~oros do
ciarins tue COZ. sc mat N his deepest sense
o. W rgatioa he finds he must pursue.
The hopeful reflection in this association
is, we may believe, that under the encour
agement OF a conslGerate and strong Ao-
kindly and yet firm. friendly
ard still veracious, adhering to the truth as
the only medicine for the diseases OF the
body polite, we shall succeed IN extending
aud increasing the influences that have al
ready so far softeued the consolidated
Southern sectionalisu IN all the border
States, beginning with Missouri extending
through Tennessee and Kentucky, and that
have especially entered into the Virgiuias, !
and appearing in Maryland and Delaware,
invade and almost pervade North Carolina, |
and, through their progressive develop /
nent, expect before long, If tie reactionary !
Influences Of the Democratic party can De !
kept in suoordination by the enlightened /
patriotism Of the people. TO succeed IN max |
ing the indissolub.e union Of indestructible /
States homogeneous Nation
TIE humorist who said the Potomac was /