The Forrest City times., 1894-04-06
GOOD GOvERNM ENT.
chief Aim of the Democratic Admin Ine lstration.

l.H iI Q at a grand banquet in memory ntfTbomas Jefferson, the father of dem- 0arats Many democrats of national Oenutation were present and spoke .non the leading political questions of .ha dav. Among them was John E. nnssali of Massachusetts, who, in re- ,so ' to the toast, "The Admins .rotion. Vigorous, Fearless, Democrat ic," said:
 I elections during the last admins tra tion 'to,y that as soon as the policy of the party in sauer 'n WAS developed it lost the confidence of pva naonle and was discredited and repsdiated 10 the end uo.,o,, o, .,, .S sscaI legislation of that period of reaction has ,~s ,o disouiet which now makes all delibera- 'u .'en seem slow. We must judge the vigor of .Sa administration not by this natural impa- ..ance of the people but by comparison with other years
 .rmed the responsibility of government under Circumstances which could not be more dis couraging in time of peace. Four yeas prev avs Mir Cleveland had given the chair to his successor with only one pressing dificulty-ex oessiye taxation creating large treasury sur lna This condition had been clearly put be- fore the country in the famous message to the Fgftieth congress, which responded by the pas sage of the Mills bill, salutary measure re- ected by the republican senate.
 .Our opponents met the condition in their way and at the end of four years we return to change of affairs so radical that the recita, seems incredible A treasury without dollar of working balance and loaded with obligations aeep bedded in laws; a tariff which has taken the name of it's author because 1t is his inyen ton of a new system to increase burdens while fl reduces revenue by turning the stream of taxes from the peoples treasury to the pockets of iudividuais corporations and trusts.
 "The financial legislation, bearing the name of Mir Sherman, had worked adversely 10 the expecta nou of its framers and had so impaired our credit abroad that our stock markets were / hreaking down with securities sold for foreign account and financial panic was well under way These were the conditions MT. Cleveland and his cabinet were called to face.
 Never d.a the people expect so much; there must be economy to make up four years of waste; confidence. chiied by reckless financial measures, was 10 be warmed to lie: trade. tt- ful and feverlsh from excessive stimulation, was to be restored 10 calm health, and, as ours is government not Of men, but of laws, and law is the fruit of wise delay, time wGs neces- sary.
 ..Ihrough the whole admins tration of MT
  values of agricultural products and in the rail xav traffic of every part of the country The iron and steel market the barometer of public prosperity, had fallen until one-third of the furnaces Of the country were cold. But no fair politician would attribute this solely to law or lack of it
 "Unwise and extravagant us the legislation of the Fifty -nr5t congress was, prodigal as its appropriations for pensions. bounties, subsi- dies and public buildings. there were other and deeper causes at work, involving the whole civ nized world, so closely are the nations bound together in financial relations that under any laws the currents of our trade would have been disturbed and we could not avoid our share of The distress which has spared part of the trading world.
 "It is the common cry of partisanship to at tribute the troubles of the past year to an elec- non which implied reduction of the taxes of the people If this were true, If in the second century of our government popular election cannot be held and change made in obedience D the will of great majority of the electors without ruin to the business of the country, then our institutions are a failure. No thought ful, no patriotic citizen will make such an as sertion
 The business of the country Is not carried on by political parties; 1t is based upon the re- sources of the continent, upon the farm, the forest and the mine, and the daily toll of hum ble men. When the farmer of tho south. feel ing the airs of the warm gulf. and looking out upon the whitening cotton field. cries in dis tress. and is answered by the northwestern wheat grower who stands upon his mortgaged farm, hopeless debtor amid his golden sheaves, there are deep causes of trouble that only the shallow politician or the parl of The hour would attribute to the changes sug gested by an election
 "The determination of the people expressed h fn curb the power of privilege has not caused the fall in the price of iron or of silver If the whole fabrlc of protection was swept away in rude disregard of the two or three per cent of our population who may possibly derive some benefit from It there would be no difference in the value of the crops of the country
 we are dependent upon the worlds market, and the world in this generation has become a small planet The submarine cable, the screw. propeIllng an immense steel shtp, and the Suez canal, have brought all lands into daly market and the prehistoric races of the east, whose customs and heredity aniedate our origin jostle us In the worlI's markets The millions who from time immemorial have erouched on the ground floor of a bamboo hut m bronze nakedness. eating a handful of rice, nave their wheat and cotton handled by railway ano steamer, and compete With the products ol our soil in the worlds markets. The result oI such competition was shown on the produce eAehange Of this splendid city, which Is the ere auon of American farming. This condition. Nnich has not been prevented by the power of protecllve tar1ffs has not come suddenly. It nas been the work of years. speak of it as part of that serious embarrassment difcul- aes which no administration since Lincoln nrst took office has had to meet, and which We are called upon to relieve by economy in ex- pehdlture and by such changes of revenue ..ws as will fulfill, so far as possible. these fpsl vii tInf all rha people pay in taxes the government should re- 'eNe that taxes should be so laid as to bear equally upon all parts of the country.
 ih times of public distress and sharp parti san criticism. 1t is hard to comply with the i'm patlence Of the people: but I assert that never