The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-03-31

The craze republican spoilsmen
have for holding on 10 contemplate
jobs in the federal service is indeed
disgusting to every friend of reform. =
St Louis Republic
Where is the financial depression
the republicans predicted? The news
indicates that If we have had any it
died with the republican administra-
ton. st. Pau. Globe.
The country has been under COM
plete democratic control several days.
1t will be observed that the sky has not
fallen nor the fountains of the great
deep broken up. N. y. World
This revival of Mr.. Cleveland al
ter the adverse verdict passed upon hi.
administration in 1855. and after fou
years spent out of Office. speaks of d
vital principle behind the man Of no
uncommon power. Montreal Star.
The republicans who are relying
on Mr.. Cleveland to blunder them back
into Office are likely TO be badly disap-
pointed. Mr.. Cleveland does not pro-
pose to drop the democratic bread on
he buttered side. st Louis Republic.
Almost any republican paper Ia
now willing TO admit tina. North Da-
kota has as bad lot Of republicans IA
they claimed the citizens Of Utah or
New Mexico were when the admission
bills were under discussion. st Paul
Globe.
Mr.. Cleveland was in November,
1892, what he had been known to be
for years, and he was made president
because of that knowledge. The peo-
pie got exactly what they wished. and
knew exactly what they were getting.
N. y. Times.
THAT part of Clevelands in
augural which pertains To the currency
reads very much rs il it had been left
over by Harrison. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Eut there was precious little of the
currency left over by Harrison. Louis
Vile Courier journal.
No public document has appeared
in this country for many year so eb
solntely pervaded with the sanity of
SO free from the faint
of partisan politics. SO far above the in
fected atmosphere of demagogy as the
address which Mr.. Cleveland delivered
on taking the oath of Office for the
second time as president of the United
States N. Y. Times.
The most suspicious feature of
MIR. Harrisons administration was the
haste with which he sent in his CHILEAN
message and his Hawaiian treaty. The
new administration is evidently not
afraid that Hawaii will be swallowed
up by the sea or be blown away by the
winds. 1t has not the republican dread
OF tidal waves earthquakes" ''cy-
clones" and 'landslides. louisville
Courier-Journal
There was net Increase of the
public debt for the month of February
of SGls,69y. Our revenues are large,
but our expenditures are larger IL is
not at all improbable that one of the
first things that .he Cleveland admins
tration will have TO do will be to bor-
row money TO keep the federal pot
boiling until an opportunity shall have
been presented for remedial reform
legislation. -Philadel 2hia Record.
Secretary Carlisle's first official
act was the exchange Of a million dol
lars of treasury notes for an equal
amount of gold rendered by the bank
ers of Denver This transaction will
assist in some degree in relieving the
pressure upon the treasury for gold for
export 10 Europe, but if the amount
was increased tenfold it would not be
more than sufficient to meet the ex-
igencv forced upon hin. by the transfer
Of an empty treasury by his prede ces-
sor. Chicago Herald.
We consume in round mum ers
nearly or quite 700. 900. 900 pounds OF
tin year in this country. We have
now had two years of trial under the
Mckinley tariff that increased the tax
on tin plate l20 per cent In other
words the people of the country. all of
whom are consumers Of tin. have been
taxed some S25. 900. 900 to establish the
American tin industry: and the Official
report OF the last quarter shows that
we have not produced 20, 900, 900 pounds
Of all kinds. chiefly Of foreign plate,
foreign labor. and foreign tin -Phila-
dclphia Times.
The private secretary OF Pres
ident Cleveland four years ago de-
clined to accept an Increase Of pay.
voted to the position by congress.
amounting TO over .seven thousand dol
lars. during the last month OF his term
ofservice. The private secretary of Pre-
ident Harrison in the las, month Of his
service is appointed paymaster in the
army over regular army officers who
have been awaiting for years this pro-
motion. and for his first duty is as
signed vacation trip to Europe ut
government expense TO pay the salaries
OF the Bchring sea commiss toner's. Al
baay Argus.
The highest expectations are
aroused as Grover Cleveland takes the
presidential chair. A change for the
better Is expected. Harrison succeed
ed Cleveland by reason OF public I'M
easiness over the latters tariff reform
policy. The people were ignorant Of
it and afraid. But Cleveland succeeds
Harrison because that policy has be-
come better understood. Fear dictated
the change Of lssS Judgment dictates
the change of 1892. bounding conf.