St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-06
FACTS CONVENIENT TO IGNORE.

! S'eo' pouHu 10 OeIenQt 1t right or
| wrong and to misrepresent, distort
ana, IN an emergency, falsify the do
?, ings of the opposition. Even where.
an act such as the attitude of Presi-
dent Cleveland on the coinage ques-
ton commands general approval. re-
.. CARELESS of party. there is, if any, a
grudging and reluctant recognition
OF 1t by the regular party organ.
The files Of these papers since the
incoming of the administration are
replete with illustrations OF this. Not
to go too far back, much has been
| made of the deficit in revenue the
| administration has had to face ever
since its advent; which, after the
manner of the wolf in the fable, these
| papers have pointed TO repeatedly as
illustrating the ineficiency of the
! Democrats and their incapacity for
administering the affairs of the gov
! eminent. Nowhere is there a hint of
an admission of the facts in the case.
| There is a Democratic administra-
! ton, and there is a deficit; there
! fore the deficit exists because the
! Democratic administration is in
charge, is their logic. Secretary Car
| Isle is held up as an incompetent
| financier because his estimate of a
| deficit on June so of $4,000 600 be-
comes one of S43,OOO,OOO, ignoring
their own predictions that it would
be $S0,O00,OOO. That the secretary in
| cluded in his estimates the revenue
OF the income tax, which alone would
make the difference, these papers fail
to mention.
| 1t is true there is deficiency in
therevenues, but it is not of the MAX
| ing of this administration. Surely
these papers must trust to the breY-
ity of the memories of their readers
| when they assert it. Have they for
gotten the closing days of President
Harr1son's administration, when Sec
rotary Foster was cutting every
corner to make ends meet? Do they
not recall the interview in which Mr..
Foster admitted that he would use
the gold reserve to pay bills with ION
a pinch" Has his order of Feb. 20,
1898, to the chief Of the bureau of
| printing and engraving, to prepare
designs for a 3 per cent bond pro-
vided for in a pending senate meas
ure, passed out of mind In thatord
! he directed the chief to hasten
their preparation" and gave him in
structions in advance of the passage
of the bill, Gin view Of the pressing
| contingencies"
Have they forgotten or do they
! think their readers have forgotten
| that when Mr.. Cleveland turned over
the administration to Mr.. Harrison
in March, 1889, there was a surplus
| of income over outgo of $S7, 761 ,0S1,
and, on June 30 after, $50, 400, 74S net
cash in the treasury, and that when
Mr.. Harrison again gave way to Mr..
| Cleveland there was surplus of but
| $2,341,6 74, and but $11,274,7S7 of net
cash in the treasury on June so fol-
lowing? Do they not know that in
| formed people knew that this sur
| plus" would have been heavy def
| icit had not congress covered into
the treasury as an asset $54, 1000, 900
deposited by the national banks as
more sacred trust even than the gold
reserve? Why do they ignore the
counting among the assets the $780,
100000 of wind" otherwise called the
seigniorage, and the $4,000, 900 of
subsidiary coin, in order that the adj
ministration that went in with a
handsome surplus might go out with
out an apparent deficit? Apparent
only; for deducting the spoliated
redemption fund and the ''seignior-
age" from the net cash in the
treasury, there was an actual deficit
as the result of four years of Re-
publicanism of S72,00O,0O0.
Has any reader of any of these
papers ever read in any comment on
the condition of the revenue under
Mr.. Cleveland's present administra-
ton any shadow even of a hint that
until the 2Sth day of August, 1894, all
the revenue producing laws of the
country We're those enacted during
Mr.. Harrison's administration? We
do not recall any. Do they ever al
Jude to the significant fact that the
Mckinley bill was entitled a bill Ito
reduce revenue?" Have they given
their readers the story Of how the
surplus was got rid of by increasing
the appropriations and reducing the
income by the notorious Fifty-first
congress? Has anyone of them told
how the customs revenue that yielded
1929, SOS, 5S4 in 1890, fell steadily each
year, under the effect of the revenue
reducing force of McKinleyAs meas
ure, to $131, S1S,5 $50 on June so, 1894, a
loss of nearly s1OO, 900? Do they
mention the fact that the expendi-
lures jumped in these four years
from the $685., $50 of Cleveland's
last year to $459, s74, 1897 in 1893, when
a Democratic house succeeded to the
care of the purse? Here is income
diminished 100000, 900 and outgo in
creased 500, 0O0 600; and even Wilkins
Micawber knew what that meant
The shrinking surplus tells an elo-
quent story, and lays the blame
where even these ingenious eXeusers
and defenders cannot evade it, The
operation of Republican fiscal policy
was to reduce the magnificent sur