Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-03-07
Els East tax.
Mr.. Cleveland Gives Ills Views Upon
some Important Questions.


Mr.. Cleveland Gives His Views Upon
some Important Questions.
President Cleveland had q conversation
with New York Herald representative
yesterday and here are some OF the things
he said; The President expressed in un-
mistakable terms his sense of personal
relief In view of his release from the
cares and anxieties OF office. He Ia not
ungratetul by any means, he says, for the
high honor which was conferred upon him
four years ago and declares that no man
could be Indifferent to such an expires.
sion Of confidence on the part Of Ameri-
can citizens. a. the same time public Office,
faithfully administered, necessitates a
great many personal sacrifices and an
almost appalling amount Of hard work.
Domestic relations are invaded, home life
Is almost an impossibihty, while accumu-
lating and pressing responsibilities of the
most serious and grave character tax the
physical as we'll as the mental energies of
the incumbent to the utmost.
II am Democrat, with all the word
impiies am, moreover, an intense
Democrat, in that l believe that the true
principles of the Democratic party are
essential to the highest wellbeing Of this
country.
During the war;" he added, "the Re-
publican party had supreme and unques
toned control of public policy. No one
will question the service it rendered at
that time, but the rank and ele of the
army was composed largely of Demo.
Gratis. The generals who won renown were
also many of them Democrats. While
there were among the Republicans small
minority of hothesds who found fault
with the Lincoln administration, and
among the Democrats an equal number
of fossils whose timidity was national
misfortune, the great bulk Of the people
from east to west, without respect to
party affiliations, were solidly patriotic
and ready for any necessary amount Of
sacrifice for the preservation OF our iusti-
tntions. II is folly to claim that the war
was fought by either Republicans or
Democrats il was fought by the Ameri-
can citizens Of the north"
But it 10 plain, he said with great seri-
business, that under Republican admins
srations there has been given fresh and
dangerous impetus to monUpolies, trusts
ard confines. Immense fortunes have
been accumulated, unknown in the days
of our fathers. They are a peculiarly
Of post beIium times, aud the control
which they arbitrarily exercise ever tho
cost or existence ID a direct menace to
the welfare of the workiDgmen and OF
our farmers.
As Democrat the President believes
strongly in the masses, and has a very
large synpathy for the working classes.
Whatever interferes with their interests
interteres with the great msjority of our
citizens.
A combine or trust may begin with the
simple purpose of making money without
oppression of the people, but il tends to
put the consumers of our country under
tribute to greed constantly increasing.
The Democratic party must therefore
be true to itself whether in power or out
1t must keep itself the representative Of
the rich and poor alike, and maintain O
solid front against the ruthless encroach-
ments Of combined capital which result
in dividing our population into the ab-
normally rich on the one hand and large
multitudes OF unprotected and laborirg
masses on the other.
The country wants more of the spirit
OF true Democracy, aud the Democratic
party, IL loyal to itself, must win in the
long run.
There never was time when wise
counssls and harmonious action in the
Democratic party wSre more important ia
the people of the country than now.
ms ifiae fsssi1ebt hrmiy believes thai
The sarl8 refoseu Measures which the
Democratic party stands for are for the
best interests OF the whole people, aud
while he neither sees nor desires to ace
the least disposition on the part of the
Democratic party to recede from the poki
ton which 1t has taken, hs accepts the
result of the election with the placidity Of
the philosopher and the calmnegs which
the minority should always possess. The
people cannot be deceived by false logic
in the long run, however. The working.
men seem already to understand pretty
we'll the question submitted to them al
the last election.
The action of the farmers Of the coun.
try presents the strangeat condition oil
affairs which the canvass developed.
They do not seem to realizs yet how i'm.
portant the question Of paying immense
additions for all they use upon their
farms and all they wear upon their backs
10 to their prosperity, if not to their very
existence, and how much they are neg
looted in the distribution OF tho pre-.
tended benefits Of high protection. Re-
lection and experience the hardest OF
teachers-must set them right, for they
certainly belong in the ranks OF tariff 70.
formers.
Mr. Cleveland has no fear that tho
Democratic policy of an adjustment OF
the tariff to this wants and circumstances
Of these OF our people who work for their
living, with due regard to all other
Legitimate interests aud enterprises, will
not ultimately commend itself TO the
American people. What VIII help the
people and make their burdens lighter is
what they will have in the end; and there
need be no fear that they Will not dis
cover the way to this end CT that they
Will fail to attsch themselves to the party
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