Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-11
MESSAGE In A NUTSHELL.
The Presidents Arguments and Recon-.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-President Cleye
land today transmitted to Congress tn
following message:
The present assemblage of the legisla
tive branch of our Government occurs
a time when the interests of our peopl,
and the needs of the country give espe
cial prominence to the condition of on,
foreign relations and the exigencies O
our National finances.
This Government insists that a specia
American Commission should visit tn,
province where the first disturbances oc
Cured for the purpose of investigation
This Commission, formed after much op
position, has gone overland from Tier
Using, accompanied by suitable Chi
nese escort, and by its demonstration ot
the readiness and ability Of our Govern
ment to protect its citizens, will act, it il
believed, as an influential deterrent tc
any similar outbreak, Meanwhile, il
appears that Mr.. Walters confinement
has every allevlation which the state OF
his health and all the other circum.
stances of the case demand or permit.
1t is not to be forgotten that interna.
tional trade can not be one sided. Its
currents are alternating, and the move
ments should he honestly reciprocal
without this 1t almost necessarily degen-
crate into u device to gain advantage or
a contrlvance to secure benefits with on.
ly the semblance of a return. In our
dealings with other nations we ought to
be open handed and scrupulously fair.
These considerations should not, how
ever, constrain us to submit tounfair dis
examination nor to silently acquiesce in
vexatious hindrances to the enjoyment
of our share of the legitimate advanta-
ges Of proper trade relations. If an ex-
animation of the situation suggests such
measures on our part as would involve
restrictions similar to those from which
we suffer, the way to such a course is easy.
The traditional and established policy
OF this Government is firmly opposed to
a forcible increase by any European
Power of its territorial possessions on
this continent; that this policy is as we'll
founded principle as it is strongly sup
ported by numerous precedents; that
as 4 consequence the United States is
bound to protest against the enlarge
ment of the area of British Guiana, in
derogation Of the rights and against the
will Of Venezuela; that, considering the
disparity Of strength of Great Britain
and Venezuela, the territorial dispute
between them can be reasonably settled
only by friendly and impartial arbitra-
ton, and that the resort to such arbitra-
ton should include the whole contro-
versy,
While welcoming, as we should, those
who seek our shores to merge themselves
in our body polite, and win personal
competence by honest effort, we can not
regard such assemblages of distinctively
alien laborers, hired out in the mass to
the profit of alien speculators, and ship
ed hither and thther as the prospects Of
gain may dictate, as otherwise than re-
pugnant to the spirit of our civilization,
Besides deranging the commercial eX-
changes of the island (Cuba) of which
our countrytakes the predominant share
this flagrant condition of hostilities by
arousing sentimental sympathy and in
anUnntnrnns
people, has entailed earnest effort on the
part of this Government to enforce obe-
dience to our neutrality laws, and to pre-
vent the territory of the United States
from being abused as vantage ground,
from which to aid those in arms against
Spanish sovereignty.
On the demand of our Minister orders
have been issued by the Sultan that
Turkish soldiers shall guard and escort
to the coast American refugees, and these
orders have been carried out, and our la
test intelligence gives assurance of the
personal safety of our citizens and mis-
sionaries.
am thoroughly convinced that in ad-
ditlon to their salaries our Ambassadors
and Ministers at foreign countries should
be provided by the Government with Of
ficial residences
BY command of the people a customs
revenue system, designed for the protec-
tion and benefit of favored classes, at the
expense of the great mass of our couA-
trymen, and which, while inefficient for
the purpose of revenue, curtailed our
trade relations and impeded our en-.
trance to markets of the world, has been
superseded by tariff policy which in
principle is based on denial of the right
of the Government to obstruct the ave-
nues to our peoples cheap living or les
sen their comfort and contentment, for
the sake of according especial advan-
tages to favorites, and which, while en-
couragnigour intercourse and trade with
other nations, recognizes the fact that
American self reliance, thrift and inge-
nuity can build up our country's indus
tries and develop its resources more sure
~ IMAM SlSl NutllS pdtcIudllSlll'
The compulsory purchase and coinage
of silver by the Government, unchecked
and unregulated by business conditions
and Needless of our currency needs,
which, for more than fifteen years, di-
luted our circulating medium, under
mined confidence abroad in our financial
stability, and at last eliminated in dis
tress and panic at home, has. been re-
Gently stopped by the repeal of the law
which forced this reckless scheme upon
the country.
The foreign statement OF events and
conditions develops the fact that after
increasing our interest bearing bonded
Indebtedness more than $l62,OO0,OOO to
save our gold reserve, we are nearly
where we started, having now in such
reserve, $79,334,9 800, against $65,43S,377 in