Nevada County picayune., 1889-03-13
The Inaugural.

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 ment of the revenue (without a re-
 form of taxation), and after that
 .the application to the public debt
 of any small or unforeseen surplus.
 This is his revenue policy and it
 will surprise no one. The Republic
 predicted it four months ago in say
 ing that the surplus would vanish
 The surplus is to be spent, anal to
 prevent further accjlhnia,IbH". larih
 taxes are to be raised aud the taEes
 on wmshey and tobacco lowered.
 This is not statesmanship. It is Re-
 pubicanism, for which Harrison IS
 only responsible as Republican who
 allows himself to be used for the pur-
 poses of his party.
 He will find himself antagonized ill
 this part of his policy at every point
 by the Democracy. The views he
 expresses and the plan he outlines
 were conceived in injustice, matured
 in fraud and forced on the country
 as official by the spirit of plutocratic
 usurpation represented by the money
 contributed by the protected corpo-
 rations to buy New York and
 Indiana.
 We must commend iMr. Harrison
 for the tone of his inaugural, though l it lacks the force of honest, earnest
 conviction apparent in every line Of
 his Grandfather inaugural, with
 which it is most natural and perhaps
 most appropriate to compare 1t. 1t
 convinces us that Mir. Harrison has made an honest effort to be as lm- Ipartial as his party record and party
 obligations allow. It does not con
 ceal from Us. however, that he speaks
 less as President to the people than
 as partisan to partisans. This
 weakens it throughout. There are
 places in it where, holding in memory
 the recent past while reading it, 1t becomes difficult not to lose patience
 with 1t as with downright cant. II It is better, however, to take no such view, but rather remembering his personal limitations and party , restrictions, to give the President all l credit for good intentions. He de- clares that he 'thas altogether rejected 5 the suggestion of a special executive , policy for any section of our coun, 5 try" and this is well. He carefully separates what he has to say of cleo } ton frauds from this part of the inaugural, and from what he says oI
 the negroes. The tact was com, , mendable. We are afraid, however
 that we understand him too well il , understanding him to mean that sec. f tional agitation in Congress, is not tc , be abandoned as measure, of Repub lican policy.
 We agree with him when he say; , that "a community where law is the , rule of conduct, and where courts not mObs, execute it's penalties, iS the only attractive field for bushes:
 investment and honest labor" There are few communities where law is not s the rule of conduct and crime the t exception. Indiana is not one ot them. Neither is Kansas, though both States have of late been notori- , ous for lawlessness of this kind ) which, however, Is SO strictly under } State jurisdiction that the President has no right to take any cognizance of it whatever.
 What is said of the corruption of r the ballot lacks the ring of sincerity.
 It does not mean that W. w. Dudley should be sent to the penitentary forthwith. It does mean that all 7 Democrats who commit frauds should be punished, and in that we agree with it.
 The clause devoted to the Civil Service is lamentably weak. Repub- , licans are earnestly requested not to crowd and claw each other in scramb- , ling, and they are assured that they have only to wait to get everything in sight. The President is of course in favor of enforcing the Pendleton ? law, but he does mot expect to
 attain the ideal or even my (his) own ideal" This is not the language of a man who intends to hold at bay q horde of hungry spoilsmen, He even goes so far as tostell them it Is
 quite the proper thing to seek spells providing they do not bite and gouge each other in doing it,
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