The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-12-12
OPINIONS OF THE MEss.,-
What Republican Senators and p.,.
Say About 1t. '0fa

i say ABOUT 1t.
The message is disappointing ,ro,.
fact that 1t suggests no practical I'm inc
Tor the unsatisfactory conditions wbiay
| Mr. Cieveiand,s currency panacea ia .,,,
the same old gold cure. His last wora sun
| the American people is like his first Nheto
IN. Y. Recorder. 'ohds.
The message Of the president 10 -
in one respect. 1t considers but two ta
the relations of this government ~ 'p ps
| eign powers and the currency probIera 'r'
Chicago Tribune. ''n.-
On the financial question the mes,,
sounds like the argument Of an attnrsee
| for Wall street and Lombard street ~ .ey
| interest of his clients. 1t will be a d,s. .ns
pointnent to the country, think,-Amap
| Neb. en'
l do not think the message has ,,s.
much OF an impression on the senate Ia
not think his recommendations relative ~
the retirement of the greenbacks will w
carried out.-Teller. Col. 'e
In the sense of laying down a plan for 81.
future 1t is disappointing, as it does NV.
deal comprehensively with our curreno'.
difficulties. 1t is especially disappo,n,ins'.
In not suggesting measures as to how -
| raise revenue for carrying on the govern
| ment.-Allison. la.
The un-American tone of the pres,der,,.
discussion of foreign affairs wiz be tss
theme no doubt of good many congression.
al speeches. and 1t is safe to say that bI.
critics will not be confined to the rennh'
lican party.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
These extreme measures 1.-THE pronos.,
to retire greenbacks) would not have heen
necessary IL the country had remained nm
der a protective tariff. The insuffcier,
revenue provided by the Wilson bill is re-.
sponsible entirely for the present state a,
the treasury.-Clucinnati Tribune.
Without extended acquaintance with tho
financial history of the country, full of ths
knowledge that comes from the schools
and from a circle of New York bankers ba
gives expression to theories that have no
chance to be worked ont Into administra.
tive policies.-Cinc,nnati Commercial Ga.
zette.
The trouble with Mr.. Cleveland in hi.
consideration Of the national finances "a
that he has mistaken effect for cause Hede-
votes all his attention to rehabilitating the
currency, while the real secret of the finsn
cial weakness which afflicts us is the in.
sufficient national revenue.-Boston Jour.
nal
In a word, his only new policy is bis
scheme for the cancellation of the green
backs and the enlargement of the national
debt. The somewhat dogmatic spirit in
which he insists upon this as the panacea
for our financial ills does not afford much
assurance of harmonious cooperation be-
tween the executive and congress.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Suppose we adopt Mr. Cleveland's plan
and retire these greenbacks. He proposes
to substitute an Understanding debt
for a non-interest bearing debt. 1t
will add S20,000,000 a year to our govern
mental expenses. And it will take away
from us, for use in our traffic among our
selves, $500, 100000 of currency.-N Y. Press
The public will be disappointed with that
part of the message which relates to the
war in Cuba. Whether intentional or not,
the sympsthies of the administration ap-
pear to ne with Spain rather than Cuba
The president In his intense anxiety to en-
force the neutrality laws, seems to lose
sight of the larger American view Of the
question involved. baltimore American.
The president makes no direct allusion
to the inadequate revenue provided by the
tariff act of 1894. He denies that the bond
issues were made to remedy deficit and
insists that there has at all times been an
ample fund to draw upon for the current
expenses of the government: but he does
not say that the existing tariff yields a
sufficient income. neither does he suggest
an increase in that direction. He simply
ignores the matter altogether-Washing
ton Post.
No president has ever delivered another
message affronting so large share of the
people. Its treatment of the silver ques-
ton will offend more than two-thirds Of
that party, and its demand for the substi-
tuition of bonds for greenbacks will sffront
W N
respect will the message satisfy the great
majority who elected more than two-thirds
of the present house of representatives
n. Y. Tribune
If anything Is absolutely certain II would
seem to be that the credit of no nation
whose income is less than its expenditures
can be permanently maintained In fact
such a condition involves not only the i'm
pairment but the destruction of credit.
The president is consequently wrong not
only in assuring that an increase of revenue
is not requisite, but in not recommending
to congress the way and means of increas-
ing it.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
That portion of the message relating to
our foreign affairs is exceedingly well writ
ten, and seems to cover what is generally
desired. The rest of the message is freer
from the turbid platitudes that character
lied former messages. His remedy for the
distress into which he and his party have
brought the country is the retirement Of
the greenbacks, thereby destroying the
national banking system: avoidance of the
free coinage of silver, and the adoption OF
the single gold standard. These are in
admissible and childish proposals, as they
do not either stop imports or fill the treas
N. H.
The message is verbose, discursve.
and, as a whole, disappointing.
The president justly condemns the free sill
yer fallacy. but fails to acknowledge the
of his administration, from
It's very beginning, for having given an
impulse to this fatal financial heresy. He
IS probably right i'm recommending the
permanent retirement of the greenbacks.
out he is guilty of gross perversion Oh
ruth and distortion of facts when he at
tributes the doleful failure of his own
policy to this form of currency.-N- y.
Mail
Regarding finances, the paper is for Inc
most part somewhat tiresome restate-
nent, and Is wanting in those striking
phrases which have been SO
frequently quoted from former messages.
'ossibly in his argument for the retirement
md cancellation of United States green
JACKS and silver notes he is more forcible
han in any former utterance. but TINS
'hase of his policy has been so often dis
'ussed by members of his cabinet that II
contains nothing observation-disclosures Times.
In two years and half Mr.. Clevel2nds
has run behind to the ek-
ent of $l4O,00O,O00. 1t has Increased the