The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-21
THESE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES.

THESE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1lA4Eo.
Surely this government is passing
through some strange seas. The pilot
can see breakers ahead but when he
lowers his glass, he is uncertain whether
to turn the wheel this way or that.
Pilot Grover Cleveland. with a muffin
Gus crew, is in a ouandary. TO bis
mind the dangers must be great or he
would not override precedence and slap
the senate in tie face. The ship of
state has been having a pitching time OF
it. Cleveland has hoped for and ex-
pected calm, and better times. They
have not come nor has the prospect OF
better times appeared. The future IS
uncertain. The shoals and the rocks
and the dangerous currents might be
avoided if Cleveland knew where they
were and what they were.
! He has been borne into new condi-
I tions-condi;ions in which old methods
| of reparatIon and avoidance are useless.
! Two weeks ago when an obduTate and
dangerous governor delayed in protect
ing property be took the matter into his
hands and sent United States troops into
/ that goverpo r's domain, over that gov
ernor's head and against his nrotesta-
tions.
Because of the excitement of the time
this was looked upon as tremendous
business.
Much more significant is the presi-
dents letter written to an individual
but intended for the United States
senate.
There are three distinct branches Of
this government. They are tie legisla-
tiv. branch, the judicial branch. and
the executive branch. Constitutional
ISIS have always held chat these branches
must act Independently of enc another
for the good of the government. That
is. that the executive branch must re-
spect the acts of the Judicial branch;
that when a court has imprisoned man
the president shall not override the e9ict
and Judgment of the court by immedi-
ately after hberating the prisoner. Or
again, that the court shall not interfere
with the legislative branch during the
deliberations of that branch. Or, that
the executive branch shall net interfere
with the legislative branch.
Immediate interference between the
three rbanches has never been tolerated.
After the legislative branch has COM
pleted its work. and not until it has COM
pleted it, has the president the privilege
to act upon the result with his veto, or
the court to decide bill or act uncon-
stitutional.
Cleveland has set aside this practice of
non-interference. He has not waited
for the exercise Of his veto. But the ex-
ecutive has sought to rule the delibera-
tons of the legislative branch.
Cleveland has done this because he
realizes that his own party is driving the
business of the country upon the rocks.
He confesses in his letter that the pres
ent calamity is due to his own party.
The people Of this country have
known this for many months. The
business stagnation oates from the dav
that the Democrats went into power,
promising to knock out the protective
basis upon which the country was run
ming and under which it was prosper
Gus, and substitute a free trade era.
Factories shut down. Thousands of
factory workers became idle. Merchants
quit buying other than their immediate
wants. People quit buying of merchants
and the volume of business became
miDimized.
This resulted merely from what the
Democratic party threatened to do, not
what it has done, for it has done
done nothing. But as long as there
is an uncertainty as to its actions the
factories will not make goods under pro-
lection wages and conditions, and be
forced to sell them at free trade prices.
Cleveland's extraordinary methods
Will do neither him nor his own party
any good. The people know what the
trouble Is, and the first chance they get
they Will boost Cleveland and his party
out of public life.