The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-28

tho work Of n statesman. 1t is. of course.
e,nectcd that party newspaper will
saw this of such an important document
cmanating from its party's oanhinate'
but we state il as our conviction, never.
,bolcss. And we think none the less OF
Il because. as be admits. it justihes his
ehoine accused Of addressing his country
mon upon trite topics and in homely IAN
ouaoe" fpr The Times believes with him
that important truths arc found on the
surface of thought, and that they should
no stated in direct. simple terms.
Politics and government have TO 90
with the people in their everyday affairs
Of life. and we want him who Is to De
at the head of the government TO tell us
his views concerning those matters that
touch us in our daily life, and we want
him TO express those views in simple,
Main. nnmistakable terms. When he has
dealt with these subjects in this manner
no has given 20 us a statesman's paper
lust the sort Of paper Mr.. Cleveland has
put out. And in what marked contrast
does it stand TO Mr.. Harrisons petty lit
tie piebald cffusion. spotting the surface
with dips like a swallow skimming
lake, Compared with this. it is like the
pyramid Of Cheops beside sand-diggers
mound.
In the outset of his letter Mr.. Cleve-
land shows himself, as he has so often
before shown himself, thoroughly per-
meated with that great apprehension
which all citizens should have of the true
relation of government to the citizen.
Well does he say, in speaking of the ques'
tons before the people:
"This is time above all others when
these questions should be considered in
the light afforded by a sober apprehen-
sion of the principles upon which our
Government is based and clear under
standing of the relation 1t bears 10 me
people, for whose benefit it was created.
And in another place he adds:
1--WE cannot. With impunity. permit in
Justice to faint the spirit of right ana
equity. which is the life Of our republic.
and we shall fail to reach our national
destiny il greed and selhshness lead the
way
In these two statements are contained
all Ithe law and all the gospel OF politics.
and he who will keep both rehgiously be-
fore his mind can never go wrong JUST
MS he who ignores either will certainly
commit crime. Our government IS one
to which the people have delegated GER
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good of all. and whilst rulers recognize
that they have no powers whatever e1-
cent those which the people have dele
gated TO them. and whilst they exercise
those mowers in way that will secure
equality and justice to all they VIII pe
carving ont the purposes for wmcn our
Government was instituted aud forward
inc our destiny as q people upon earth
When they depart from the course thus
marked out to them or ignore the pur-
nose for which the government was IN
stituted, progress upon the downward
grade will have been commenced, to be
arrested only at the bottom of the abyss
We do not think it possible to sum up
I'D more happily in one passage the IN
sidious and detestable methods by which
the present state Of affairs has been ar"
rived at than Mr.. Cleveland has summed
them up in the following paragraph:
Never have honest desires for growth,
natriotic devotion TO country, and sincere
regard for those who toll been so BETRAYED
to the support of a penicious doctrine
In it's behalf. the plea that our infant IN
dustries should be fostered did service
until diScredited by our stalwart growth
Then followed the cxigencies Of n terri
bic war. which made our people Needless
Of the opportunities for Interior schemes
afforded by the willing and patriotic pay
ment Of unprecedented tribute; and now.
after a long period of peace, when our
Ovcrburdcned country men ask for relief
and for n restoration TO the enjoyment
of their incomes and earnings, they are
met By the claim that tariff taxation for
the sake Of protection is an American syS-
TEN, the continuance of which is neccs-
sary in order that high wages may be
paid to our workingmen and a home mar
ket provided for our farm products.
There it is exactly. The French say
Gee Test que 10 premier pas qui codte"-it
is only the first step that cOsts-and the
truth Of their saying was never more
thoroughly proved than by the history of
tariff legislation in these United States
Commencing in giving an easy, indulgent
hearing to harmless appeals for trifing
projections. the system received an enor-
nous acquisition from the contributions
which supporting the war, made the peo-
pie choerfully submit to; and when,
weary of these contributions after the ne
cessity for them has passed, the people
ask to have them RENTED, the beneficial
ries of them reply that it has now grown
into an American system that cannot be
abandoned without giving up the very
life of the Republic!
This is the course of thicving at all
times. Let the thief once establish him
self in your house. and he will clamor
louder than any other man in behalf OF
the law that protects him in his lawIess
possession. Protective statutes are the
life of successful thieves.
Upon the whole, we can say that no bet
ter state paper has ever been laid before
the American people than Mr.. Cleyeland's
letter, and we hope every American citi-
zen will read it,
RESTRICTION or IMMIGRATIoN