The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-15

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powerful and too necessary to the happiness
and sustenance Of mankind We are at once
the most pacific and the most martial of the
nations, but our relations with France are
those of fraternity, with Germany and Aus
tria of cordial amity. We have no enemy
but England, and she is too vulnerable in
syery quarter of the globe and Gu every sea
to go to war with us. We have an unsettled
score with Great Britain for her malevolent
insolence, but nothing is so improbable as
war. Hence there is no need of costly arma-
ments Our standing army is only national
police force, and the demand for a navy
comes from contractors, from marine cities
whose pusillanimous population pretend tt.
believe that their accommodations are in dam
ger from foreign ironclads and from commu-
mites adjacent to ship and navy yards who
desire to profit by such enterprise.
THE WASTING OF MILLIONS ON THE NAVY.
sin ten years the ships we are building
will be worthless, either for attack or de
Tense. The millions we are spending might
as well be with the gentleman whose name l
have forgotten-at the bottom of the sea-
With every industry depressed and general
cutlery for economy in administration, in a
ehiiO VI HiciOubu tt,dSts VIC eilc ulSpdbCllln2
costly fleets, at an enormous daily expendi-
ture, on luxurious pleasure excursions, to
play spectacular parts in the pageantry of
the sea; exchanging entertainments and hos
FATALITIES with other potentates, drinking and
carousing in foreign ports, upon the pretext
that such performances are necessary for the
national honor and national defense be-
Ncve Democratic administration claims the
distinction Of inaugurating the policy for
squandering our resources under the theory
that we must be prepared to protect ourselves
against somo unknown danger. 1t is as alb
surd as it must DO for q secretary of the navy
80 start out on his morning walk down the
avenue with Winchester over his shoulder,
pair of revoivers in his belt and bowie
knife in each boot upon the idea that some
ruffian might attack him before reaching the
Capitol"
Senator, would you mind giving us your
estimate of the administration of President
Harrisonl"
TOO EARLY TO GIVE A VERDICT on HAIR
RISOy.
"Harrison's administration has been much
more successful thus far than Cleveland's was
at the end of his first year. Cleveland salts
fed nobody, and was openly and unsparingly
denounced by his party organs 1t is great
mistake for president to suppose that by
neglecting his friends he can propitinte his
enemies. Cleveland got no support from the
Republican party by allowing Republicans to
remain in office, and he alienated many Dem
ocrats. The most formidable error of Harri-
son is in regarding himself bound to follow
pernicious precedent Cleveland saw his
hlunIar n late 70 Ia TO,
cover. Most people are human and prefer
that reform. should be tried on their enemies
rather than on themselves. And if President
Harrison acts on this line he will have no
trouble. 1t is too early to predict what the
verdict will be. The statistics do not exist
Two years hence will be soon enough He
has had rocky time so far, but has acquitted
himself with dignity, courage and prudence.
His temperament is dispassionate, but his
ideals are high, and am confident that he
will grow constantly in public estimation and
approval"
As president pro tempore of the senate
for several years, your Interpretation of that
clause of the constitution which relates to the
making of a quorum in either house OF COLI
gress would be read with interest, in view of
the recent contest in the house of representa-
tives," the interviewer suggested
"As president pro tempore OF the United
States senate now" replied the senator, Il
must decline at present to attempt any inter-
probation of the clause"
"You have never, think, senator, been
what is called strict consuructionist of the
constitutional
NOT A STRICT CONSTRUCTIONS.
THAT question l cannot answer better, ="
said the senator, than by referring you to
some remarks which l had occasion to make
on the subject in the course Of debate in the
senate the other day." And he turned over a
file Of The Congressional Record till he came
to the report of speech, from which he read
as follows:
"Mr. President, the people Of the United States
have reasonable degree of respect for the con.
sttution, but they are not afraid of It A consti-
tuition is u growth, not o manufacture, and the
constitution Of $780, by reason of the operation Of
the viii of the people who made it. is a vasfi~