The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-05-10
Washington Letter i.
Fren our regular Correspondent.
WssurEcToy AnriI % I2Q5

hAsd1AG1OAs APIh ZSs 1860.
President Cleveland declines to get ex-
cited because England is engaged in Civ
ing Nicaragua metaphorical spank
ing, and yet there is great howl from
his enemies, who accuse him of aban-
doning the Monroe doctrine If the
Monroe doctrine means that the United
Staieg shall fight, or threaten to fight,
every European country which those
cockey little South and Central Ameri-I
can republics by their hot headed acts
get inta trouble witE. it ought to be
abandoned. is matter of fact no ad-
ministration has ever put any construc-
ton upon the Monroe doctrine. While
EngIand's demand upon Nicaragua may
be extortionate there is no doubt that it
was provoked Wy Nicaragua, which had
somehow get the idea that the United
States would interfere in its behalf be-
fore the worst came to the worst. Eng
land is doing precisely what the United
States would do dnder similar circum-
stances competing reparation for in
suit and injury 10 her subjects-aithough
this corntry would probably haze gone
abont il differently. The administra-
tion deserves commendation for its pol
icy of non interference in this matter
1t is every day becoming clearer that
the republicans are going 10 try to strad-
die the financial question in their next
national r.Ia A nYanOeifi0r * hiah
is said to have received the endorsement
of a number of their moet prominent
men, including two candidates for the
presidential nomination, is that plank
be Inserted in :he platform for the coin
age OF $4O000o, 600 in sIlver, at ratio of
Is to |. The idea being that this will pre-
vent the boiling Of the oliver republicans
In the west.
1t is nothing new to Say that Secretary
Morton ls opposed to the indiscriminate
distribu ion of AL kinds of seeds by the
Department of Agriculture. He has
been opposed TO it from the day he learn
ed OF the absolute waste which accom-
panied the distribution OF seeds, to say
nothing about those Congressman who
sold IN bulk their qu)ta of seeds, and il
he could have had his way Congress
would not haze appropriated one dollar
for the purchase OF seeds for indiscrimi-
nate free distribution during the coming
fiscal year. But he did not have his way,
and an sppropriation-somewhat email
er than usual-was made for at pur-
pose. IL IL not certain, however, that
Secretary Morton will spend that appro-
priatior.
Wonder WHIT those ha'r-trjgger indi-
viduals who were so much afraid some
time ago, thai Secretary Herbert would
not have the Navy properly represented
at the celebration attending the opening
of the SEA cana at Kiel, on June 10, think
OF themselves now? In addition TO the
San Francisco and the Marb.ehead, first
designated, Secretary Herbert has order
ed thai the Ne York and the Columbia
shall also 90 to The KEEL. And there is a
possibiiii, that the Secretary may 20
hinIseli uii the Dolphin.
s.r tny Morton's beef investigat ons
must 'r' ti4quieting the beef trust when
one oi its members makes the lidicu-
lous charge that those investigations are
EeepDg mp the price of beef Secretary
Morton smiles at the charge, which he
correetly ei.aracterizes as nonsense, and
asks pertinently: "Why should asking
plain questions, in order to get the truth
agi,ate anybody, or affect the beef mar
ket? That why will doubtless be echo
ed by tie beef consumers who have been
conpelied to pay t.ibute to the greedi-
ness Of the men who compose the beef
trusi.