Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-12-09

tions may not be sufficient absolutely to
exclude the disease The progress of
medical and sanitary science has been
| such, however, that il approved precau-
tons are taken at once to put all of our
cities and towns in the best sanitary con-
dition and provision is made for isolating
| any sporadic cases, and for thorough dis
| infection, an epidemic can, ! am sure, be
| avoided. This work sppertains TO the local
| authorities and the responsibility and the
penalty will be appalling if it is neglected
or und1ly delayed.
RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.
We are peculiarly subject in our great
ports to the spead of infectious diseases by
reason of the fact that unrestricted immi-
grafton brings to us out of European cities,
in the overcrowded steerages of great
steamships a large number of persons
whose surroundings make them easy
victims of the plague. This consideration
as well as these affecting the political
ward, and industrial interests of our cour-
try leads me to renew the suggestion that
admission to our country aud to the high
privileges of its citizenship, should be
more restricted aid more careful. We
have, l think, right and owe a duty to
our own people, and especially to our
working people, not only to keep out the
vicious, the Ignorant, the civil dlsturber,
the pauper, and the contract Iaborer,bu to
check the too great flow of immigration
now coming by further limitations.
WAsAMAKER's INDUSTRY.
The remarkable increase in revenues in
the number of postoffices aud mail carriage
furnish furtl er evidence of the high state
of prosperity which our people are enjoy
ing New offices mean new hamlets and
towns. new routes mean the extension OF
unr border settlements, and increased rev
enues mean an active commerce. The
postmaster general reviews the whole per
iod of his administration of the office and
brings some of his statistics down to the
month of November last. The postal rev
enues have increased during the last year
nearly $5,000,000. The deficit for the
year ending June 80 1895, is $S4s, 34l less
than the deficiency of the preceding year
The deficiency of the present fiscal year
il il estimated will be reduced to 1882,
423. which will not only be extinguished
during the next fiscal year, but surplus
of nearly one million dollars should then
be shown.
SILVER PURCHASES.
During the last fiscal year the Secretary
purchased under the act of July IA, !o9O,
"a, $50, 748 ounces of silver, and issued IN
payment therefore $51, 196, COS in notes
The total purchases since the passage OF
the act have been 100, 49, ,98l ounces, and
the aggregate of notes issued SIG, 783, ,599
The average price paid for silver durng
the year was "a cents per ounce, the high
est price beng s1.024 July l. 1891, and
the lowest so SO March 81, 1892. In view
e . 10 con hat mn afa a0nfprpnHl
now sitting, and that no conclusion mas
been reached. withhold any recommen
dation as to legislation upon the subject
The exhibit of the work of the executive
departments is submitted to Congress and
to the public, in the hope that there Will
be found in it due sense of responsibility
and an earnest purpose TO MAINTAIN the
national honor and to promote the happi-
ness and prosperity of all our people And
this brief exhibit of the growth and pros
perity of the country will give US level
from which to note the increase or deca'
dence that new legislative policies may
bring to us There is no reason why the
national influence, power and prosperity
should not observe the same rates OF
increase that have characterized the past
80 years. We carry the great impulse and
increase of these years into the future,
There il no reason why in many lines of
production we should not surpass all other
nations, as we have already done in some
There are no near frontiers to our possible
development. Retrogression would be
crime.
BENZ HARRISON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Dec. 6, 1892.
THE discovery that the rifles used by the
German Army are worthless has created
a sensation in that country. Some OF the
officers have been in collusion with the
contractors, and inferior arms have teen
fnrnishad the army