New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-06
THE MISTAKE or THE PRESIDENT

Even 10 most of the Presidents supporters
tbe Presidents message seemed tame and fiat.
Those whose pcrfunctory enthusiasm is en-
gagged in advance. like secured seat In tho
atrc. get through their stipulated applause with
out any wastcful expenditure OF emotion. II Is
a business message they say, and SO 1t would
be If there were any business in II. But on III"
questions about which the people most wished
information 1t is singularly fShy. The most
troublesome feature Is that the President does
not seem willing to tell the people what he
really intends to do, or to have done by his
obcdient Congress.
II is not crcditabc 10 the President that his
Hawaiian policy is so concealed that the people
whose business il is to know what Is being done
i'm their name are completely kept in the dark.
There Is insolcnce in this deliberate refusal Of
the pcople's servant TO tell them as the Consti-
tuition REQUIRES. what he is doing or about To
do But as the message itself, and the first in
formation about his Hawaiian policy, came TO
this country through British sources. II Is pos
sblc that Engshmen may now nave more
satisfactory information.
The Presidents approval Of the revenue meas
IRE proposed is even more insolcn The Prcsi
dent actually recommends 10 Congress one
measure of the very greatest importance. tax
on the incomes Of corporations, which the
Committee Of Ways and Means in the
House has not yet decided upon, ana he
thereby declares that the House Committee Is
COMPOSED Of a set Of hirclings employed 10 do
his bidding 1t is not a pleasant thing for
Americans 10 find their chosen Representatives
thus treated by the President as Il set of clerks
whose only business is to obey his orders. But
These are the days of Reform.
The measures which the President does most
earnestly favor are not Of character 10 com
mand public approval. IT is nothing less than
wanton defiance Of the popular decision for
him 10 recommend in advance Il tariff bill which
the Committee Of Ways and Means has not yet
reported and the principles Of which the peo-
plc have condemned In the most emphatic re-
ycrsal of votes for the last thirty years But Il
man who conccvcs that the Nation hangs on
his eyebrows, so TO speak. and must necessarily
| temble at his frown, may be- forgiven if he
treats the voters as unworthy of any attention
whatever.
President Cleveland has not helped himself
by this message, nor has he helped his party.
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evident that he treats it rs n section boss would
treat his hired hands The Democracy has
never had more contcmptuous or more in
solcnt treatment from any President of either
party than ii has received from the first Prcsi-
dent II has elected during the last thirty-two
years One is tempted to inquire whether the
Democratic party could by any possibility have
elected anybody really representing its wishes
and it's temper. and whether its success in the
elections OF last year WAS not altogether due
TO the fact that it was supposed 10 have nom
mated Il man able to browbcat and bully ana
dictate to the party, and TO direct Its policy IN
all sorts Of matters and 10 tramplc upon 1t IN
the most insulting fashion whenever he saw nj.
II the President were in the least degree In har-
mony with the genius and the spirit and the
needs Of Northern institutions and INDUSTRIES