Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-14

pleasure to take his 60, 600, 900 constit-
uents into the governments conf
dence.
When President Harrison was inaug-
urated it was said that he intended to
give the people a business mans ad-
ministration. That pledge has been
kept. The message this year is bus
mess mans document, and must rank
with the ablest, most exhaustive and
suggestive messages ever sent into the
American congress.
Naturally the chief interest centers
about the recommendation of the ex
ecutive, and especially those referring
to the state and treasury departments.
Aside from these two foremost exec
utive departments, all the others are
carefully considered, the work Of each
is commended, and important sugges-
tions submitted, for the consideration
of congress and also of an intelligent
people, The message is clearly the
work of President Harrison's own
hand. Every part of it reveals char
acteristics peculiar to himself. In
some of his most notable utterances
he repeats almost the phrases he en-
ployed in his public addresses. In
dealing with the silver question, for
instance, he paraphrases his famous
Albany speech.-MdiI and Erpress.
President Harrison in his third an
nual message is able to show that all
the gloomy predictions with which the
enactment of the Mckinley tariff was
accompanied have been completely
refuted by our national experience.
There has been no marked or gener
al increase in the cost of the necessa-
ries of life. Foreign commerce has
not been ''stifed." There is no deficit
in the national resources. On the
contrary, there has never been time
in the history of the country when a
dollar would go further in making
domestic purchases, nor time when
a dollar was easier to earn. Our for
eign trade, both exports and free i'm
ports, has expanded within a year to
unprecedented dimensions. When
all the bills of the government are
settled there will be a comfortable
surplus in the Treasury-not large
enough to justify another Bourbon
attack upon our protective system,
butsufficient for all practical purposes.
The official figures of the Treasury
reports this year, as cited by the Pres
ident, afford a complete justification
of the wisdom of the Republican poll
cy of encouraging home industry. The
Mckinley tariff is the law of the land.
Its results thus far have been benefi-
cial. Its success has cOnfOunded the
doleful predictions of its enemies.
Any attack upon it is fraught with
peril to the mercantile community.
There is sound practical wisdom and
patriotism in the Presidents remark |
that "agitation for radical changes in |
in tariff and financial legislation can
not help, but may seriously impede |
business, to the prosperity of which |
some degree of stability in legislation
is essential"
President Harrison possibly did not |
wholly approve of the silver law of |
the last congress. He may have ia
vOred it, as a compromise that could |
not be disastrous in any event and
would certainly save the country from
any immediate danger of free coinage.
He urges, however, that the new leg
slatiOn should be given a fair trial,
and reminds both free coinage people
and the radical opponents of silver
that their evil prophecies of the re
suits of the present measure have
come to naught. Upon the question
Of free and unlimited coinage Presi-
dent Harrison expresses himself with
his customary plainness and vigor.
In the face of Democratic House of
Representatives four out of five whose
members are tainted with extreme
free silver heresies, the President does
not hesitate to say that free coinage
measure would 'Edisastrously affect
our business interests at home and
abroad" This is tantamount to dec
aration to Crisp and Mills and their
associates that he will veto a free sill
yer bill the moment it is laid before
nim. We shall see whether the Dem
ocratic leaders will have the courage
TO meet the challenge of the Republi-
can ecutiVe.-JourndL.