Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-12-14
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

dent Harrison to Congress a few days since is an able state document. In view of the result of the recent election, he has the following in re- gard to the tariff:
 'I recommend that the whole subject of tariff revision be left to the incoming congress. The friends of the protective system with undi- minished confidence in the princi- pies they have advocated will await results of the new experiment."
 He then fires the following piece of sarcasm at the tariff reformers:
 "If system of customs rules can be framed that will set the idle wheels and looms of Europe in mo- tion and crowd our warehouses with foreign-msde goods, and at the same time keep our own mills busy; that will give us an increased participa- tion in the markets of the world of a greater value than the home market. that we surrender; that will give increased work to foreign work men upon products to be consumed by our people, without diminishing the amount of work to be done here; that will enable the Ameri can manufacturer to pay to his workmen from % to 100 per cent. more in wages than is paid in the foreign mill. and yet to compete in our market and in foreign markets with the foreign producer; that will further reduce the cost of arti- cles of wear and food without re- ducing the wages of those who pro- dtlee them, the authors and proprie- tors of i. will be entitled to the highest praise"
 The following, in reference to the labor element, who were persuaded to vote for the low tariff proposi- ton, is very adroit:
 The strained, and too often dis turbed, relations existing between employees and employer in our grea; manufacturing establishments have not been favorable to a calm consid- eration by the wage-esrner of the effect upon wages of the protective system. The facts that his wages were the highest paid in like calling in the world and that 3 maintenance of this rate of wages, in the absence of protective duties upon the pro- duct of his labor, was impossible, were obscured by the passion evoked by those contests. He may now be able to review the question in the light of his personal experience un- der the operation of tariff for rev enue enly.
 -. He recommends that that power be given the president by procla- nation to prohibit the taking of seals in the north Pacific by Ameri- can vessels.
 He recommends radical revision of trade regulations with Canada that our relations may continue friendly;
 He recommends Congress 10 take some immediate action looking 10 the completion of the Nicaraugua canal.
 h the clause relating to the mon- etary conference in Brussels, the president says he has no doubt that the free coinage of silver upon an agreed international ratio would probably promote the interests of our people equally wsh those of other nations. The president fur tber says on the silver question, that owing to the fact that the moneta- " conference is not sitting and that no conclusion has as yet been reach ed, he withholds any recommenda- tion as to legislation upon the sub- ject.
 The president agrees with the secretary of war in recommending that the small army posts be aban- doned and the army concentrated at large posts which have proper strate- gic relations to the frontiers. The work of building heavy guns and the construction of coast defenses should be carried on without check.
 He compliments the postmaster general upon the conduct of his office. During the past four years the number of postoffiees have been increased 2,790.
 The president speaks enthusias- tically about the progress of the navy and development in manufac- ture of tin plate, as we'll as of of fensive weapons. The organization of the naval militia is characterized as an important achievement. Speaking of the navy, the president says: 'I earnestly express the hope that the work which has made such noble progress may not now be stayed"
 He recommends liberal appro- priation at this session to maintain a strict quarantine next summer to prevent the advent of cholera in this country.
 The message closes as follows: ''This brief exhibit of growth and prosperity of the country will give us level from which to note the increase or decadenee that new leg islative policies may bring to the United States. There is no reason why national influence, power and prosperity should not observe the same ratio of increase that charac- terized the past thirty years. There is no reason why, in many lines of we should not surpass all other nations, as we have al- ready done in some. There is no near frontiers to endanger our pos sible development, and retrogres- sion would be a crime.