Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-12-19

/ IN our own markets, and in FOREIGN
trade the stamp gives no added value Ia
I the bullion contained in the coin. The
/ producers of the country have the high.
1 est interest that every dollar. paper. or
/ coin issued by the government. shall be
/ as good as any other. To place bust.
1 ness upon a silver basis would mean a
sudden and severe withdrawal Of gold
/ and gold notes and such an unsettline Of
! all values as would produce a great panic
1 ! believe it is the earnest desire of a ma.
I. iority of people that a full coin use be
made of silver as soon as the co opera.
ton of other nations can be secured and
a ratio fixed that will give circulation
/ equally to gold and silver. BimetalEsm
/ is the desired end and true friends of
| silver viii be careful not to overrun the
goal and bring in silver recommendation
/ with its necessary attendants As
/ scarcity of gold in the European reserve
/ viii be the most persuasive argument for
/ the use of silver, the president speaks of
/ bond redemption during the year, saving
/ it has put into circulation over two hun.
I dred and fifty million of dollars
War ana Navy.
The president concurs in the recon-
mendation of the secretary of war for
the three battalion organizations for in.
fantry; expresses the hope that the adop.
/ ton smokeless powder and the modern
rifle will not be longer DELAYED con
ours in the recommendation Of the post.
master general for an extension Of the free
delivery and money order system: COM
mends to congress the recommendation
of the secretary of the navy, and saws
there should be no hesitation in promptly
completing a navy of the best modern
1 type large enough to enable the country
to display its flag on all seas for the pro.
lection of its citizens and its extending
commerce.
Chinese Smuggling
On the question of smuggling into the
country Of Chinese through Canada the
president says there is satisfactory, evi.
dence that this business is ogauized and
active. The construction placed upon
the exclusion law by some of the district
judges that such Cinnamon must be re-
turned to Canada and not TO China, robs
it of all effectiveness and he recommends
such legislation as will remedy these de.
fleets in the law.
Pensions.
Much attention is given to the work Of
the pension bureau, and the opinion is
expressed that there viii be no necessity
for deficiency Appropriation this year
No triainE with Polygamy.
On the polygamy question the pres
ident says: We can not afford
to experiment with this sub
iect for when a state is once consti-
tuted the act is final and any mistake
irretrievabe. No compact in the enabl-
ing an act could, in my opinion be bind
ing or effective.
The seed Department.
Much space is devoted to the depart
ment Of agriculture the work Of which
| is very highly commended. Reference
is made to the great grain crop of this
/ year, the largest in our history, and TO
| the fact of the opening of new markets.
4 The larger demand resulting from short
crops in Europe, the president says, have
sustained prices to such an extent that
| the enormous surplus of meat and bread
stuffs viii be marketed at good prices,
[ bringing relief and prosperity to an in
dustry that was much depressed.
The Civil service.
He commends the report Of the civil
service commission to the careful atten-
/ ton OF its opponents as well as friends.
4 He believes the law is being executed
with impartiality and that system is be-
/ ing improved.
/ The attention of congress is again ur-
/ gently called to the necessity Of legisa-
! ton for the protection OF the lives of
railroad employ ees.
Gerrymauders.
I The president deyotes much space to
I the gerrymander question, having par
/ ticular reference to the recently adopted
Michigan plan of choosing presidential
| electors bv congressional districts. That
/ concurrence in plan should be broken is,
/ the president thinks, unfortunate and
/ threatening episode and one that may
well suggest whether the states that still
| give their approval to the old method
ought not to secure by constitutional
amendment a practice which has had the
approval Of ALI Gerrymander schemes,
( he says, have already found effective APP
( pication TO the choice of senators and
I representatives in congress, and now an
evil start has been made in the direction
/ of APPLYING them to their choice Of presl-
/ Dental electors. If this end is accomp-
lished we shall then have three great de-
/ partmeuts of government in the grasp
I Of the geTrymander, the Legislative and
! executive directly, and the Judiciary in
directly through the power of appoint
meut The essential features of re-
/ publican government, he says, are
/ the right of the people 70 choose their
( own officers and the nearest praeucaole
equality of value in the sutfrages gwen
/ in determining that choice. The state
! is to choose and. under the pretena OF
regulating methods, the Legislature can
neither vest the right of choice elsewhere
nor adopt methods not comfortable TO
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