Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-03-19
ADMINISTRATION.
President Harrison on the Political
Outlook.
The LATE CONGRESS COMMENDED.
No More Financial Legislation Needed
Extending Reciproeity-Agitationo on the
Mckinley Tariff Not Favored
Hopes of the Future.

New YORK, March 1S.-The Tribune
publishes review of President Harri-
sons administration and gives an in
terview with the president by Mr.. L. c.
Crawford, in which General Harrison
speaks of the work of the Fifty-frst
congress as of the most important
character. 1t had maintained the prin-
ciple of majority rule, both in congress
itself and as expressed in the elections
bill, which dealt with what must in the
near future become a dominant issue If
the public conscience is not dead.
The president also expressed much
pleasure at the passage of the shipping
bill extending our commercial rela-
tions. The new navy, the president
says, puts the nation on a respectable
footing and is the best guarantee against
the possibility of any war.
The president does not think we need
any more financial legislation for the
present. He said: ~ have favored sill
yer coinage up to a point where 1
thought it could be safely used. 1t is
not always easy to determine exactly
the danger point 1t is best, however,
to be conservative, and l think we have
gone about far enough for the present
in the direction of the free coinage of
silver. To go further might result in de-
preciating it. A deprecated dollars first
mission is to go out and cheat some
workman in the payment of his days
wages. 1t is the poor man who feels
first the i'll effects of a cheapened cur
rency."
President Harrison also said that he
was engaged in considering further sub
jects of the treaty under the reciprocity
policy, which he was confident would
result in great good. AS to the future
of the republican party, he believed
there was already strong reaction IN
favor of the party and that it would
show in the future that it still merited
the confidence of the country.
The president was asked if he did not
think the tariff issue for the present
was ended, so far as the republican
party was concerned, and that the
party, as party, should not resort tC
further agitation of the subject for al
least time. The president answered
Most decidedly think there should
be no more agitation upon the subject
until the Mckinley bill has been fair
| ly tried. 1t has been charged
with numerous faults. There
is no reason why its workings should
be prejudiced by malevolent predic
tons. The bill has already been long
enough in operation to indicate thai
much that is charged against it is IN
! true. If it can be shown by such fail
and impartial trial that it has faults le'
them be eliminated; but until sucl
period is passed should be strongl!
against any further agitation of th'
tariff question"
At the close of the talk 1 asked hin
what he thought of the future of thu
republican party. He said that Their
was strong reaction in favor of tn
party. Its future would show that
was upon the side of good government
and modern progress and we'll merite'
the confidence of the country. In eX
pressing this opinion the president said
emphatically: 81 think it is about tim
to abolish the craftsmanship of tn
apologists for the republican party"