The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-03
sTATEsMANsHIP REQUIRED.
Circumstances Which shoy Against Dem-
 ocratie FinancIerIng.

Circumstances Which Show Against Dem- ocrptie FinnncIcrIng.
 It is apparent that President Cleve- land, in order to restore public conf- dencd in himself and his party, is en- deavoring to devise somethingSin the way of financial policy whichV shall furnish the promise that trouble in the business world win be less ire quent in the future than it has beenin the past. .---s....s:,,s,
 If such plain could be proposed and should be adopted, it would show that Mir. Cleveland is financial genius, and that the confidence which was re- posed in him two years ago was not misplaced.
 But, unfortunately, Mir. Clcveland's fscalexperiments have been so disas- trous that the people will regard with suspicion any proposal he may now make in the way of financial re- form They will examine it with care and act with the greatest deliber- ation. h,.r
 The democracy claims that all the trouble the country has endured dur ing the last two years was due to re- publican blundering with the finances when they were in power. In connec- tion with this subject our democratic friends lose sight of the fact that only twice in the last twenty years have the republicans controlled the house of representatives, and the house is most important factor in perfecting the financial legislation of this land. The democrats have contented them selves with abusing the Mckinley law, and indhlging in ponderous generali- zations about lack of elasticity and adaptability. of the currency sys- tem,p and similar phrases which are high sounding, but have not much meaning after all. rf.
 It is quite true that since March 4, 1893, it has appeared as though the currency system was suffering from a lack of elasticity and adaptability," or something quite as serious, for the treasury has been in constant. danger of being depleted, and the general business of the country has been in q. state of great confusion.
 It avails nothing to claim now that this condition of affairs did not pre-. vail when the republicans were in power. It will not improve existing conditions by pointing to the fact that the republican policy always brought such abundant revenue that in addi- ton to meeting all the ordinary ex- penses of the government the repub- licans at the same time were able 10 reduce the public debt from S2, ,Si5,9 ,907,- 626 al the end of the war to S5S5, 029,- 33O, the figure at which it stood when Grover Cleveland became president the second time.
 These circumstances either show that the republicans were in office at a fortuitous time and were able to exc cute laws in a way which gave them an unearned reputation, or they show that they were good laws, and that the republican party possesses the gov ernmental instinct. Is it likely that that party could go along year after year with illogical, blundering and unscientific laws, paying the nations expenses, reducing the debt and piling up a reserve in the treasury, and as soon as the democratic party came in to power-the party which has claimed to be especially endowed with fnan cial wisdom-that the whole fabric should collapse, if the party which had boasted of it's proficiency really possessed the ability which it had claimed?
 But this is no time for invidious comment or for reviling adversaries. The financial question is one which must be treated in a broad and liberal manner. 1t is not question for party nsideration-though there are mil lions in the country who are thorough ly convinced that the democratic party is unfit to deal with this aud the other grave problems which must be solved.
 Therefore, if the president, regard ing the question from a national stand point, shall propose plan which will not involve partisan consideration he will have republican support as he had it last year when the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was re- peaIed Albany Journal