Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-03-15
rh. rrs.l.sn,.. Inauguration.

The 4th of March, 1893, was a gay
 day in Washington City, barring the
 inclemency of the weather.
 About l2 M. by the senate clock, (which clock, however, has been turned back more than oncel, the
 President elect stood on the plat
 form bare headed, with the snow,
 sleet and wind blowing in his face,
 and spoke his little speech before
 thousands, very small number of
 whom could hear him. But as it
 was all written by him for the occa-
 sion and committed to memory, We
 have what was written.
 The questions in the document
 are simply a rehash of democratic
 speeches and newspaper deatIibes
 during the campaign ot last au-
 tumn.
 The silver question he touches
 very gingerly. He favors a stable currency, but fails to define what a
 stable currency is, whether a bi-
 metallic or a mOnometalie one it Is
 he fayors. But from his former ideas on this subject, we are warranted in
 saving that he considers gold as the only currency that the country should have. The people of the west and southwest can glean but little hope from the inaugural, that their cherished hopes for the free coinage of silver, or that silver as money will be adopted, if it depends on the wishes of the executive. He gives Tammany Hall and the hun gry office seekers a slap m the face, but we take all that, with the civil service, with many grains of allow ance, in other words, buDeome.
 He makes two attacks upon the tariff, first in the beginning of his speech and next towards it's close. He still clings to his free trade theory, by eontending for tariff for revenue only. That protection of home industries is unconstitu- tional, forgetting that the first con- gress, which was composed of emi- nent men, many of whom were mem bers of the convention that made 1 that constitution, gave their ad- hesion to the doctrine of protec- l tion, and this too in the second act 1 passed by that congress, which act ] was signed by Washington, who, as will be remembered, was the presi- dent of that constitutional eouyen- 1 vention. Mir. Cleveland, therefore, arraigns those sages of the revolu- | tion and members of the first con gress, under that constitution, for | either inconsistency or wsnton dis regard for the oaths they had taken to uphold and maintain that consti- | tuition. He slaps in the face, not onl y Washington, but John Adams, Madison. Hamilton, Mon roe, Jackson, Webeter, Clay, land at one time) Calhoun, and many other men with equal capacity, learning and political acumen with himself. He and WatteTsou and the majority of the democratic party, by their sayings, ignore the great lights of our fathers, and mosto the intel lectual and solid men of the east and present generation.
 nc htSiucuA setlilS nOt tO huOW the difference between a policy and . constitutional act. As protection does not agree with his policy. he therefore dubs it unconstl utional. It certainly is a very easy way to bridge over the chasm.
 He gives thel pensioners a thrust that is the unkindest cut of all. He tells them that only those who were m battle, during the late lnpleasantness, should be the Ie- ,ipients of the bounty of the gov srnment that those who based their breasts to the storm of shot and hell and: :trudged through mud and lush, and snow and rain, but failed O be shot or knifed, those who suffer III the vicissitndes of camp life and nd bard tramps, either in calm or .sg---'. %-'l -ii ti----s~ .s--..>~.s--vs- s.-,-g that he, Grover Cleveland, night have the opportunity to be- { ome the President of these United , tates. ( On, ingratitude, how hateful is hy smile. W. H. MCGREw.