The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-09
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY Q. 1895.
His Latest Message.

President Cleveland is where Ana
conda was in November of last year
he Is on the wrong side of the count.
With this difference, however, as be-
between President Cleveland aud Ana
conda, that the president doesn't APP
pear TO know when he is whipped. a
world of cynical sentiment is wrapped
up in the latest message of the presi-
dent to congress; the STANDARDpr prints
1t this morning
Add the utter imbecility of Secre-
rotary Carlisle to the prevailing I'M
popularity of President Cleveland with
his own party, and you have the
sum total of the present administra-
tons weakness. Not that President
Cleveland is the most unpopular occu-
pant the white house ever had-we
can name two presidents who have
outranked lm-possibly three. But
account should be taken of the fact
that President Cleveland has little
more than two years yet to serve
From next month onward, he will
have republican majority in congress
to deal with He may rise TO popu-
larity in operating with the repub-
licans; that is possible. But if, with
this republican majority, he fares as
lie has Jared with the democratic
majority soon TO expire, we predict
that the day is not a twelvemonth
distant when Mr.. Cleveland can tell
his relations that he enjoys the unique
distinction of being the best desplsed
man American politics ever produced
all Drac iHanf ('launlan1 ic
time The men who are so much bet
ter than their party seldom pan out
Yesterdays message from the ex-
ecutive mansion, deals with the bond
business. The financial policy of the
administration never had saving
strength in the senate; the forlorn
hope has been that the house of repre-
sentatives, prompted by motives that
have their spring in policy, would see
the administration through. That
hope vanished on Thursday.
Now comes the administration, and
it says that it will issue bonds What
for? To keep tn @ one-hundred-
million reserve good; that is the plea
Mr.. Carlisle says that he has revenue
and TO spare for the running
MI. German infers that this statement
is false. These two gentlemen are
democrats; the STANDARD, sometimes
a pretty good democratic newspaper,
does not enter into a controversy re-
spectlng Mr.. Carlisle or Mr.. German
on the ability of the treasury to pay
as 1t goes.
The point is that President Cleve-
land announces his intention to fight
silver always but TO hold his hundred
million reserve good. That will keep
him busy. Toward that end he sold
millions of bonds last February. To-
ward the same end he sold millions
more of bonds last November The
result is that, to-day, the reserve is
lower than ever; and Mr.. Cleveland's
secretary is going TO sell some more
bonds He will sell some more bonds
next May, and some more next August,
and he Will keep on selling, because
the goldbug bankers endless chain is
operating. The clique can send green
backs into the treasury for redemption
to-day-that will pull out so much
gold; II can send the same greenbacks
through the treasury next week-and
they Will pull out so much more gold;
and SO al Hjitum, as they say in
music, or IA your pleasure" as we
say in plain English
This thing could Oe stopped in a
minute, if the Cleveland Carlisle
coterle would simply apply TO the
situation the plain terms Of the law.
Mr.. Carlisle needs only TO announce
that, hereafter, under the explicit
terms of the law, he Will exercise his
option TO redeem greenbacks, treasury
notes and the like in silver But Mr.
Carlisle won't do it-not he; that would
spoil the programme of the gold
clique, and that wouldn't do. Mr.. Car
Isle may be pettfogger in national
finances, but he is no "crook," not he:
he proposes TO stay with the clique
And so the nation sweatS in the
Swale; the democrats in congress,
fayorlng free coinage by liberia. ma
jority, proposed TO let the administra-
tion do its worst: the republicans IN
congress, fayoring the gold clique by
= liberal majority. anxious TO make
the exit Of the democrats as desplca-
BILE as possible. That Is the merit in
the case, as far as 1t involves appeal
10 political sentiment
The message OF yesterday IS in the
nature Of an option. Mr.. Cleveland
says, almost in terms, that if congress
Will be good and come his way. he
Will put out s0-anI-s0.many millions