The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-08-25
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The editor of the Atlanta Con-
stitution, the leading democratic
paper of the south, severely criti-
cises the presidents message. 1t
says:
"Mr. Cleveland's message favors
and indorses the republican policy
of repeal. and entirely ignores the
democratic policy. If he IS right
the democratic party is wrong, and
has been wrong for the past TWEEN
ty years. If he is right, John
Sherman and his republican col
leagues are right, and it is emf
nently fitting that rampant force
bill champion and gold mono-met-
allist, Henry Cabot Lodge. should,
as he did, assume charge of the
message in the senate, and move
its reference to a committee with
instructions. The duty Of demo
Gratis in congress is plain and easy.
They are not in a position to ig-
more the democratic policy put
forth in the democratic platform.
But democratic congressman can
not hold themselves above their
party. The party in the south
must be held together; 1t must
continue to present united front;
but it cannot be held together if
the people become convinced that
the financial policy of the demo-
Gratis is identical with that of John
Sherman and the republican
party"
The Hon. John B. Stoll, editor
of the South Bend. Ind, Daily
Times (Dem. }, is an old-time DEM
ocratlc war-horse, and is of this
opinion concerning the presidents
latest message:
The government will, in the
very nature of things, have to do
something in regard to silver, and
it seems to us that a man who is
so ready to formulate opinions as
Mr.. Cleveland has been in the past
ought to have been able to devise
some plan that would have the
merit of being practical and that
would commend itself TO that great
body of people who are neither
rampant silverites nor vehement
declaiiners in favor of an exclusive
gold standard. What the cool,
level-headed, unprejudiced people
of this country want is some sort
of arrangement that will give
business the full benefit of the
silver already coined and the bull
lion owned by the government as
part of our circulating medium.
without impairing either the gold
in sight and yet to come or the
other form of tested circulating
medium. That's what the people
want, and that's what congress
should give them at the earliest
practical moment"
Great Big Honest Old Tom B,
Reed, of Maine, whom the demo
Gratis delighted to call "Czar .
during his reign on the speakers
throne of the house of representa-.
tives, and whose opinion on the
public questions of the day is sec.
ond to none, speaks through the
New York Press concerning Pres.
ident Cleveland's message like
this:
| Gone can hardly fail to be i'm.
pressed by the resemblance be.
tween the message today and that
of the last democratic president
who addressed a congress of his
, party in 1857. While the disaster
is not the same, the expression oil
sorrow is very similar. Mr., Cleve.
land has set an example of short
single topic messages; but, while
} this message is very impressive, it
is far from being adequate to the
occasion. While my votes in the
past show plainly that agree with
much that he says, | should not be
doing justice to my own sense ol
the truth if l did not record my
entire disbelief in the idea that
the message states the underlying
cause of our disaster. The cause
of our misfortunes is simply this
Utter uncertainty reigns in finance
and tariff, and in everything or
. which business can be based. l
you remove one element of uncer
tainty there remains al! the others
You cannot readjust the economic
> principles which govern a country
> without disaster, especially if thai
readjustment be violent and in
volve the wages and salary o.
every citizen"
, The Now York Herald S1u,S ur