The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17
CLEvELAND'S VISIONS.
Progress That b Ruinous to NatIons
 Prosperity.

Progress That Is Rulnous to National
 Prosperity.
 President Cleveland is a remarkable person. In his recent veto message of the seigniorage bill he rescued from innOcuOus desuetude some startling dis coveries that deserve to be set in gilt frames and posted where all can see them. The first of these remarka ble discoveries is as follows:
 ''No. L-Our recovery has, neverthe- less, steadily progressed"
 This reminds us of the boy in the district school when the teacher one day gave him an example. It was the old familiar story of the frog in the well: He climbs up two feet during the day time and slides back a foot at night" The inquiry was: How many days will it take him to reach the topP' In this case, however, the teacher set it little different for the purpose of testing the pupils ability. He made the frog climb up two feet during tho day and slide back three feet during the night
 The boy worked all the forenoon, all during the incoming, and all the after noon. At various times the teacher asked him if he was in trouble. No" he said, "I am doing first rate. I un- derstand the problem, and I'll get 1t after awhile" Four o'clock, closing time, arrived, and still the boy was ciphering. The teacher stood over him, and surveyed the vast amount of fig ures covering both sides of the slate and all the white paper he could get hold of. The boy looked up from his work, blushed, and triumphantly said:
 Well, teacher, haven't got it through, but I have done we'll I've got him clear into hades and tomorrow Pll finish him"
 If Cleveland's recovery is progressing in the same direction as the frog, the explanation of the Coxey movement and the general unrest throughout the country is made more clear.
 His second discovery is: Confidence is to such an extent reinstated as to pro- duce the most encouraging results"
 Our comment on this is that there are strikes throughout Pennsylvania and all the coal countries of the United States there are hungry workmen in every city, populists, Coxeyites, and a general class of unemployed working men who are talking of marching on Washington to cause legislation in their favor. This sort of confidence and these results are not nuch as to tend to produce an abiding trust in the future. or faith in the stability of such government as we now have
 His third proposition IS: "The wheeis of domestic industry have been slowly set in motion"
 They may be set in motion, but most ly and like the frog, they are going backward. There are no industries in this country, and there are no farmers, except, perhaps, a very few, who arc finding in these days fair equivalent for their labor, their capital and their skill
 His fourth is: ''Our recovery being So well under way, nothing should be done to check our convalescence"
 If we are to convalescence in this fashion it would be well to have the hearse at hand, as this sort of conval- essence requires a funeral sermon. From his eyrie in the white house he thinks he knows the condition of the country. As he has not been west of the Mississippi his eyes must be those of faith While we are convalescing, while the wheels are slowly set in mo. tion, while confidence is producing such encouraging results, trains are be- ing seized, the militia is ordered out in various states and the wise every- where are thinking with anxiety what is to be the outcome and whither we are drifting.