Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-17
The Harrison Administration.

The administration of President
Harrison is leading the diplomatic
intercourse of the nation out of be-
wildering fog and spiritless ambigui-
ty into plain-spoken directness, un-
derstood and needed everywhere, and
is adjusting on honorable terms loug
postponed and irritating questions or
difference with other nations. 1t is
taking hold in dead earnest of finan-
cial questions hitherto tossed about
by tentative experiment, or suffered
by neglect to drift at will. The Ma
tional Banking system and the silver
question have at last gone into "the
orders of the day''in the halls of con-
gress, for the consideration that their
Importance demands. The tariff is
being so reformed that the receipts
will not exceed the just expenditures
of ths government, and at the same
time American producers and Ameri-
can laborers will be protected in the
enjoyment of the markets and the
labor Of their own country. The re-
habiliation of the navy and the res
toration of the merchant marine are
being pushed forward with zeal and
enthusiasm never known before. In
ship yards on the Atlantic and Pa
cifc coasts, resonant with the fall of
the hammer and the music of the
lathe, and animate with the genius
and skill of American artisans, ships
are being built for the navy and mer-
chant service that have no superiors
afioat. American capital and labor
and brain have at last conquered on
our own soil, and the occupation of
the preacher who would close our own
soil land the occupation of the preach
ers who would close our ship-yards
and purchase our naval and merchant
marine abroad, is gone. MOrmOnism
has lost the lnsolent bravado which
past temporizing has fed, and now
stands at bay. Hope has been kim
died anew in the breast of the color
ed citizen, that his constitutional
rights will no longer be a mockery,
and that the utmost power of the con-
stitution will be invoked for his pro-
lection. Other territories, following
the example of the four new states,
which were the first fruits of repub-
lican ascendancy, are putting on the
garments of statehood in the conf
dence that they will not be turned
away when they apply for admission.
The positive and aggressive Amer
icanism that won for the republican
party the opportunity to administer
the government, has in this short year
so infused itself into national enter
prise, has so quickened development
anu u6INSu tllC al III VI lADOiS ohoN -
period of general prosperity unsur-
passed in our history testifies to the
wisdom of the policy thus inaugural
ed. With it have come confidence
and courage. The government has
put itself on the side of that "gener-
al welfare for the promotion of
which the constitution was ordained.
1t acknowledges its obligation to ed
ucate for the ballot those to whom the
nation has given it, and its duty to
open wide the gates OF opportunity
for all the people in every walk of
life. This review can not be extend
ed farther. Nor is there need for
further comment upon what has thus
far been accomplished by the present
administration and what it promises
in the years to come. The future is
full of encouragement. The public
Judgment is clear and unmistakable,
that the public confidence has not
been misplaced.-Sen0tor Henry Il.
Daaoes IN the March Forum.