The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-06-15
wAsHINGTON LETrEM.
From Our Regular Correspondents
Warrington. Tune q 1893.

wAsHINGTON LETFEM.
From Our Regular Correspondents
Washington, June 8. 1898.
The democrats now claim that Mr..
Cieveland's formal announcement of his
to call an extra session of con-
gress in September has cleared mp the
financial sky and that all doubts should
be brushed aside by everybody. THIS
would be very nice and very satisfactory
il it were true. But unfortunately it
isn't. The financial sky has not been
cleared by Mr.. cleveland's announce
ment, which read between the lines in
forms the country that he doesn't know
what congress will do with the financial
question after he gets it together, and
prays the people to help him to Influence
congress to repeal the Sherman silver
law. Always the Sherman silver law.
The Sherman silver law never was con-
sidered very desirable thing by any.
BODY and it only became law as
cumpromise to prevent something get.
ting through that was thought to be
even less desirable. But with all its
faults the Sherman SILVER law is not
responsible Tor one-tenth of what it has
been charged with by Mr.. Cleveland and
some of his advisers. Republican sena-
ators and representatives with few ex
captions will vote for the repeal OF the
Sherman law, but it remains to be seen
what the democrats viii do. It will in
any event take much more than the re-
peal of the Sherman law to inspire pub
lie confidence in this administration, and
public confidence is the thing that is
needed above everything else.
The appointment ola Tammany post
master of New York city was double
slap in the face for the mugwump ele-
ment. In addition to giving one of the
best federal Offices in New York to a
hated follower of Croker it was a viola
ton OF the rule that postmasters should
be allowed to serve out their full terms,
rule which has received the adulation
Of the entire mugwump tribe. The tenn
of the republican postmaster would not
hare expired until the 10th Of next De
cember. Rules don't count under this
administration, anyway.
One of the most notable things about
this administration is the disposition of
every one connected with it, from the
president to the head OF petty bureau,
to regard the United States Government
as their personal property, to be used as
they may see fit. To read the daily con-
versations, all duly chronicled in the
newspapers, Of the new Comptroller of
Currency, a foreigner would suppose
that he was the sole owner of the entire
national banking system. This young
man is doubtless honest and well-mean-
ing. but he has case of the big-head
that is bound sooner or later to get him
into trouble. Mark this prediction.
There is a difference between efficiency
and ofiiciousness.
1t is ian open secret here that four mem
bers of the cabinet havea at every meeting
of the cabinet at which financial matters
have been discussed advocated an imme-
date issue of bonds to the extent of
500, 000, 900, to strengthen the gold
reserve of the treasury, but Mr.. Cleve-
land will not agree to it; he isso anxious
to continue to impress the "object les
son." which he is pleased to call the
present financial stringency, upon the
country.
Secretary Gresham has temper which
often becomes stormy, and just now it is
in one of its stormiest periods. The new
Russian extradition treaty was officially
made public this week, but one news
paper printed the treaty and all ofthe
correspondence between the two govern
ments one day before it was given out
BY the department, and Mr.. Gresham
says it was stolen, and that it could not
have been stolen without connivance OF
some employee of the department. He is
trying to find the guilty man.
Secretary Tillman of thr National
Farmers Alliance thinks the assistance
his organization gave to the democratic
party in the last campaign deserves re-
cognition, and that his appointment to
beregister of the treasury will just about
cancel the obligation. Mr.. Cleveland
well-known hatred for the alliance and
its foster brother, the peoples party,
does not augur well for Mr.. Tillman's
prospects of getting an Office.
In view of Mr.. Cleveland's expressed
confidence in the early repeal of the Sher-
man Silver law the opinion Of Senator
Henderson, who has never been radi-
cal in his financial ideas, is significant.
He says that the Sherman law cannot
be repealed by the next congress, unless
it be coupled with free coinage in some
form. He thinks it probable that the
silver men would agree to increase the
amount OF silver In the dollar in order to
get free coinage, but that free coinage
they must have or they will not allow
the Sherman law to be repealed.
Beware Of OIntments for Catarrll
that Contain Mercury,
40 mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on pre-
scriptions from reputable physicians, as
the damage they win do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls catarrh Cure, nanutact.
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