The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-06
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AN ABUSE OF POWER.
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH Editor.

1t is evident, from his conduct, thai
President Cleveland knows the gravity
of our financial situation and that he is
fully competent to render all needed re-
lief. This is apparent first, from has
stolid indifference to the demands OF
more than ninety per cent of his constit-
uents that he should perform the little
service of calling their representatives
in council: and next, the almost cruel
reluctance with which he consents to it
at the end of five mortal weeks. There
is almost unanimous belief Oh the
part of the business men OF the
country that an emergency exists which
calls for immediate action on the part Of
the government, and that the most serl-
Gus consequences may follow his dIla-
tory movements. There seems, how
ever, to be no relief till the meeting OF
congress, since, on issuing his procla-
nation he hied himself to impenetrable
seclusion at GRAY Gables-indeed the
last heard of him was to the effect that
he was lost in the fog IN his fishing craft.
This kind of public service may be quite
TO his liking, but the sovereign people,
who are yet the rulers in this country,
hold different views. The car Of Rus
STA, whose VIII is law. has at least the
support of precedent in enforcing il, but
here it is different.
If the president thinks his real motive
is concealed from the public he is most
grossly deceived. That it is his express
request that on the meeting Of congress
the,Sherman law is TO be repealed, Ieav-
ing silver practically demonetized, ana
that nothing shall be done to interfere
with the return to a gold standard, Is as
plain as that he was legally elected to
his high position. Was ever such pre-
sumption conceived by public servant?
AS an American citizen he is entitled TO
his views on these matters, but the man
ner in which he has made these things a |
condition precedent TO his call for a |
meeting of congress is not III line with |
the popular idea of his official functions. |
1t cropslout further that the whipping-in |
process has been Systematically en-
ployed for these many weeks, and it is |
believed that by August the conditions
will all be right for rushing the meas
ures to vote, after which, it is assumed,
an adjournment is to be had and the
ship of state and business interests of
the country are TO drift at will.
Leaving out OF the question the injuri-
Gus results OF the Sherman law, and
saying nothing of the merits or
dement's of free coinage, or gold
standard, it is certain that these tactics
are most reprehensible and deserve the
contempt of every true American. Ex-
not wanting OF patriotic OBJ
of public duties, and the pres
ent emergency furnishes great oppor-
tunity The financial and commercial
of the entire country are in
volved in most serious complications,
and while the government is Impotent
TO right all the wrongs, it is certain that
errors may be corrected and that the
people of the whole country NAV, at
least, be heard through their representa-
lives IN congress on these vital ques-
tions.
1t lis not recorded of Washington
at Valley Forge or Grant at Vicksburg
that they went fishing; nor of the mar {
tyred Lincoln that in. the hour of his {
peril he found time to revel in
seaside pleasures. If our president
could relax his vertebra and lay his ,
ear 10 the ground he might detect the S
sound of distant thunder which may be
heard in congress before the close of MS
extra session.