The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-05
The Presidents Message.

The last message Of President
Cleveland to the SD Congress is
voluminous affair covering over four.
teen columns of closely set matter.
1t deals of nothing new, and is more
10 the nature of rehssh of depart.
ment reports. The President seems
to think there has not been enough
tariff tinkering yet, so he recommends
coal, iron and refined sugar be plac'
ed on the free list. OF the bulky
state paper the Derrick says;
President Clevelaud's last message
to the Fifty.third Congress is dis
appointing document in many re-
spets. There is hardly enough fire
and vitriol in it to suit the few
friends who still stand by him, or sat.
isfy the people, who we're curious TO
know in what light he regarded their
criticism of his policy, as expressed
10 their disapproval Of the Democrat
ic party by the verdict of the ballot
box. But Grover has nothing new to
offer, and he takes up twelve or fif'
teen columns of newspaper space, in
synopsis of our foreign relations,
and a rehash of the reports presented
by the chiefs of his various depart
meuts He approves of their several
recco IN mendations with monotonous
verbosity and with brief eulogy in
behalf of civil service reform, winds
up his formidable document with q
strong endorsement of Secretary Car.
isles scheme Of currency reform.
The entire message is trite and
commonplace and suggests the an
guish of a man suffering from a sore
toe and disappointed hopes. The
reader who has patience enough to GO
through it from beginning to end
cannot fail to be aware of the strain
it cost to strain it out, and few
grains of sympathy involuntary &c
out to the writer. 1t is hard work &c
read it and it must have been infinite
ly harder to have written it.
1t is difficult to realize in the few
words that the President devotes t,
the tariff that this measure was 81
unsatisfactory to him that he refused
to give it his signiture Beyond say
ing that it needs a few amendment
and that he is in favor of free coal
free iron and free sugar, he almos
entirely ignores it.
His recommendations for a Ma
tional Board of Health are com
mendable, but he is on safe ground
here, as the subject has been thorough
ly considered heretofore. His re
marks about American ships ant
sailors have been the spread.eagl
arguments of the free traders 70
years. He devotes considerable at
tention to the Blue6elds incident, an,
the little discussion it aroused be
tween the United States and Grea
Britain, but has nothing to say for o
against the Nicaragua canal enter
prise.
But it is Mr.. Cleveland's fnancia
recommendation that will call dow
the vials of wrath upon his consecra
ted head. He calls attention in
vague way TO the governments fusu
cial difficulties, but fails to apprehen
the cause. Free trade means dimir
ished revenue, and diminishe
revenue means that instead
paying off the national debt it wi
be necessary to increase it by issuin
more bonds. The bonds have a
ready been placed on the market /
Mr.. Cleveland and now he sees
great light in the direction of a mo
elastic currency. This is to be o
tanned By chasing financial rainbo
and complicated system of bar
currency guaranteed by the Cover
ment-a system cumbersome, il
practicable and impossible of bell
put in operation by an Americt
Congress.