Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-08-09
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

JdDu SenJ lC SOupTe6S } eSGe'TuHy u6dlS
entirely with financial matters. He
enters int0 an elaborate review OF
the business situation, in which he
charges all the ills the country is now
cuff ring to the bullion purchasing
clause of the Sherman law. The
message is a we'll written document
ami concludes ms follows;
The matter rtsas above the plane OF
party politics 1t vitality concerns
every business and calling and enters
every household in the land. There
is one important aspect which
especially shonld never be overlooked.
At Il time like the present, when the
evils Of unsound finance threaten us,
Spectator may anticipate harvest
gathered from the misfortnnes Of
others A capitalist ma. protect him
self by boarding, or may even find
profit in the fuctuatIon of values; but
the wage Garner is the first TO be
injured by II deprecated currency
and last to receive the benefits Of it's
correction, and is practically defense
less. lie relies for work upon the
ventures Of confident and contented
capital. This failing him, his condi-
ton is without alienation, for he can
neither prey OH the misfortunes of
others nor hoard his labor. One OF
the grea est statesmen our country
has ever known, speaking clore than
fifty years ago, when arrangement
of the currency had caused CONNER.
cial distress, SAID: The very man of
oil others who has the deepest inter
esL III sound currency aud whu suffers
by mischi evuus legislation in mone-
cary matters, ia the man who earns
his daily bread by his daily toll"
These words are as pertinent now rs
on the day they were uttered, and
ousht TO impressively remind us
that failure in the discharge cf our
dnty at this time must especially in
jure those Of our countrymen who
labor and who, because Of their mum.
bAr and condition, are entitled To the
most walchful care OF their govern.
meat 1t is of the utmost inportanee
TINT such relief lis Congress can afford
in the existing situation he afforded
at once. Tho maxim He gives
twice who gives quickly" is directly
applicable.
IL may be true thai the embarrass.
ments from which the business Of the
country is suffering arise as much
from evils upprehended as those actu-
ally existing. We may hope, too,
that calm cuuLsels will prevail and
that neiiLer capitalists nor wage
earnerR VIII give way to an unreason-
ing panic and sacrifice their property
or their interests under the influence
of exaggerated fears. Nevertheless,
every days delay in removing one of
TO plain and principal causes of the
present state Of things enlarges the
A'C'hNi NlIShl'y uOJO anu III CTpnEpB
the RESI- onsibility Of tho government
fJr its existence. Whatever else the
people have by right to expect from
Congress, they may certainly demand
that legislation condo canned by an or
deal ct three years disastrous pxper-
fence thall DO removed fro N tho stat.
ute books as soon rs their representa-
tlv's can legiiimatcly deal with it.
1t WAS my purpose to summon n
special session early in tho coming
September that We might enter
promptly upon tho work OF tariff re-
form, which the true interests Of the
country clearly demand and which So
large minority of the people, os
SHOWN by their sufIrages, desire and
expect, and to the Accomplishment Of
which every effort of tho present nd
mioistration Is Pledged; but while
tariff reform has lost nothing of lis