Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-12-05
THE MESSAGE.
4 LONG WINDED DOCUMENT
BOILED DOWN.

| OF the fresldeDt 10 ont, ana Tor the
benefit of the APPEALS readers Is
boiled down.
The President treats of our foreign
relations, civil service reform and of
army, navy and Indian affairs. He
compliments the army upon its eff
cheney and discipline during the
strike last summer, and the report of
the Commission appointed to investi-
gate the strike and its causes.
He dwells at length upon the issue
of bonds to replendish the gold in the
Treasury. and which he admits there
is some doubt as to the authority of
the Treasury Department to issue
bonds ne avows his determination to
continue issuing them whenever he
deems it necessary. He does not in
innate that the Secretary of the
Treasury has the option of redeeming
Treasury notes in gold or silver, as
best suits his convenience aud the
condition of the Treasury, though
such is the fact.
He recommends the plan suggested
by the Secretary of the Treasury for
modifying the banking laws. Abso-
lutte enforcement of the Government
from the banking business is, in his
opinion, the ideal relation of the
Government to the circulation of the
country. This condition cannot be
Immediately reached, but the plan
suggested by the Secretary is a step
in that direction.
The President is not satisfied with
the new tariff law. He wants coal
and iron on the free list, and, so far
as the sugar schedule is concerned.
he would be pleased to see every par
tic,e of duty on refined sugar stricken
out of the tariff law. He argues that
if the sugar refining interests, which
are now protected, still languish to
the extent of closing reineries and
discharging thousands of workmen,
it would seem to be hopeless to ex-
pect to revive them by legislative aid.
He evidently believes that the closing
of the reineries at this particular
time is for the purpose IF imprcssinq
| Congress with the idea that they
cannot be run protitablv under ths
| present law.
| The President, 1T appears, ignores
the silver question except to express
the opinion that none of our citizens
are willing that the financial oblIga-
tons of the government should be
reduced to silver basis He does
not seem to think that a large major
ity Of the people do Rot care whether
| the financial affairs of the Govorn-
ment are conducted on gold, silver
or paper basis, so long as labor and
its products are in demand at fair
| prices. The average citizen does not
deal in gold and he is Just as we'll
satisfied with a silver note, redeem
| able in standard dollars, as with Il
gold note, redeemable in gold dol,
lars, He knows from sad exper-
fence that since the adoption Of the
gold standard it is extremely difficult
fov him 10 get any kind of money.
He believes with good reason that if
the country was on a silver basis
money would be more plentiful, labor
and the products of labor would
command higher prices and the
country would be more prosperous
than it has been for years The
President, whose associates and ad-
visors ars welded to the single stand
ard, sholld not judge the whole
country by what they say They do
not comprise a majority of the peo
PIE and do not express the aesati-
meuts of TIE masses.
There is one faint ray of hope FOR
the silver men in the Presidents mes
sage. He says he fully apprentices
the responsibility resting upon Con-
gress for all legislation affecting the
of the people and assures
the representatives of the people that
in accordance with recon-
made by him or not he
shall be glad to cooperate in perfect.
ng any legislation that can add to
the prosperity and welfare of the
If this means that the
President has had new revela atom
ince he vetoed the Bland Siegnior-
Ige bill and does not mean I'D the
uture to assume that his judgement