Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-06
SUMMARY OF THE INAUGURAL.
Salient Points of the Address Delivered
by Cleveland.

Salient Points of the Address Delivered
by Cleveland.
WASHINGTON, March 6-The following is
comprehen sive synopsis of President
Cleveland's inaugural address, covering the
pith of what he said referring to the policy
of the new administration. The address
begins by dec airing that there are certain
conditions and tendencies among our peo-
pie which seem to menace the integrity and
usefulness of heir government" OF these
the first is 'the exposure of a sound and
stable currency to degradation" and this
peril is of a character that should arouse
to activity the most enlightened statesman
ship" He promises to exercise every execu-
tive power deemed necessary to maintain
our national credit or avert financial dis
aster
Protection and the Pensions.
another danger that confronts us and
is not less serious" he describes as "the
prevalence of a popular disposition to ex-
pect from the operation of the government
especial and direct individual advantages"
The verdict of the voters, he says, has con-
demned the maintenance of protection for
projections sake; and it also demands the
obstruction OF the whole progeny of pater-
nalism." This destruction requires "a re-
fusal of bounUies and subsidies to aid ILL
advised or Ian gushing enterprises" and "a
challenge of Wild and reckless pension ex-
penditure" with the limit of public appro-
priations to the public necessity
Against the Spokesman and the Trust.
He holds also that appointments to Office,
instead of being the rewards of partisan
activity" should be bestowed on those
whose efficiency promises a fair return of
work for the compensation paid them" He
commends the good accomplished by civil
service reform and the further usefulness
it promises. Still another peril he finds
in immense aggregations of kindred en-
terprises and Combinations of business in
terests, formed for the purpose of limiting
production and fixing prices" and these he
pronounces to De conspiracies against the
interests of the people and in all their
phases unnatural. He says that they
should be 'reao he'd and restrained by fed
eral power" so far as the general govern
ment can reach them.
Tariff and Rights of Citizenship.
As to the tariff, changes in it, says the
president, musU be made. wisely and with
out vindictiveness" and on the principle
that "the necessity for revenve TO support
the government furnishes the only justifi-
cation for taxin g the people" He adds that
anxiety for the redemption of the pledges
which my party has made and solicitude
for the complete justification of the trust
the people has reposed in us, con strain me
to remind those with whom / am to CO.
operate that we can succeed in doing the
work which has been especially set before
US only by the most sincere, harmonious,
and disinterested effort Even if failure is
caused by lperable obstacles it will
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or neglect the people will hold us to a swift
and exacting accountability" He also
touches on the color line, saying: "The
rights of citizenship should be protected,
without regard to race or color" and the
Indians should De led to civilizations.