The record-union., 1894-11-12
Weather Forecast.
For Northern California-Generally fair.
A SUGGESTION TO MR.. CLEVE-
LAND.

After the 4th of March, 1885, Mr.. Cleve-
land will be about the only Democrat
having any voice or influence in national
legislation. If the administration of the
Government in Great Britain had re-
ceived a rebuke like that which has just
been administered to the Democratic Ad-
ADMINISTRATION in the United States, the
Prime Minister would have resigned
and this appears to be most natural
proceeding in a popular government.
Mr.. Cleveland need not resign, but he can
do something which will be its equivalent.
He should issue a proclamation calling
q special session of the newly elected
Congress for the 5th of March, 1895, and
we suggest something like the following
formulation of his proclamation. After
the formal opening he should say:
WHEREAS, 1t appears to the President that
the people OF the United States have recorded
their condemnation of the tariff measures
passed by the present Congress, and have
made that condemnation SO emphatic to
broadly suggest the propriety on the part of
the Democratic party OF the United States 10
adopt that parliamentary courtesy in vogue
in popular conventions, wherein the defeated
party moves TO make the action unanimous;
now
Therefore by the authority vested in me by
the Constitution of the United States, 1 here
by call the Congress OF the United States to
meet in extraordinary session on the 5th of
March, 1895. to the end that the Inaugural
ton OF the impost and financial policy which
the people OF the United States appear TO de-
sire snail not be delayed until the usual time
for the assem- bling of a new Congress. And
hereby make known to the people of the
United States my Willingness to sign any bill
relating TO a schedule OF tariffs or tariff re-
vision; also any bill reforming the financial
policy of the Government, believing that |
have received the equivalent Of al express
command from the people of the United
States to do so. respectfully urge upon the
attention of Congress hereby called to as
semDle the necessity for immediate action.
We surmise that proclamation of this
kind would carry CONSERVATION to the
minds of the Republican leaders. The
Wilson bill is held responsible for the
existing depression. Mr.. CleveIand's
administration stands charged with the
deplorable commercial condition of the
country. Mr. Cleveland's views concern
ing silver legislation are made account
able for the scarcity of money. In short,
Democratic supremacy was believed to
be the source of all our woes, including
the drought, frosts, cyclones and other ma
tural causes phenomena.
We believe that business Will in mea-
sure recover in consequence of the Re-
publican victories throughout the coun-
try. Manufacturers will recover their
lost confidence in the future, and encour-
agement in the direction of greater in
dustrial activity will be found in the fact
that tariff modification will be in the di-
rection of a higher rate of protection
rather than in the opposite direction. At
the same time we feel degree OF conf
dence amounting to knowledge, that the
recovery of the country from the exist
ing condition will be slow and painful.
Nothing could disclose the truth of this
position more clearly than the assembling
of the Republican Congress Immediately
after the close of the present Congress.
Nothing would so clearly expose the i'm
potence of men to create prosperity by
law. If to make stringency and its at
tendant paralysis OF industrial pursuits,
and in turn its attendant sequela, adver-
sity, sunlawful, lwould abolish these con-
ditions, then humanity would indeed be
fortunate. We still hold, however, to the
faith of the old maxim:
OF all the good or i'll that men or States
endure,
How few there be that kings can make or cure.
Mr. Reed of Maine, the great COM
moner, foreshadows his own doubt of the
possibility of an immediate restoration
by any legislative device. He puts the
case with the cunning of skilled parti
san. In an interview published in the
RECORD UNION last week he is reported
to have said that the scars of Democratic
legislation will remain for more than a
twelvemonth. By this Mr.. Reed warns
the country not to expect too much, and
he is right in his warning. The depres-
sion which aff1icts us is common through
out the world. 1t is therefore not attrlbut-
able solely to legislative mistakes in our
own country. AS we have frequently
pointed out, it is simply the reactionary
condition from a period of phenomenal
prosperity. The inflated period embraced
more than fifteen years of duration, and
il 10 the law, as certain in its operation as