The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-12-06
The Message.

PRESIDENT Cleveland's message
was submittedto congress on Tues
day. The full text of it, together
with all the recommendations made
by the chief executive, will be found
elsewhere in this paper. The paper,
like all of Mr.. Cleveland's state doc
uments, is voluminous one, the
president seeming to think to carry
conviction to his auditors by his
much speaking rather than by con-
else arguments, we'll considered
statements, and specific recommends
tons. The whole message is devoted
TO foreign affairs and the financial
situation. AS to the administration
foreign policy,it is in strange con-
trast to the talk of democratic news
papers about the proposed Inaugural
ton of vigorous foreign policy"
Much disappointment will be felt at
the absence of any positive declara-
ton or recommendation in regard to
the recognition of the belligerency Of
the Cuban insurgents, who have the
unanimous sympathy of the whole
American people in their unequal
struggle to free themselves from the
cruel, domineering control of des-
potic monarchy. The president does
seem to be somewhat touched by the
outrages in Armenia, and his eyes
are open to the Importance OF the
Venezuelan matter. All in all,
however, the president says very lit
tie in all the verbiage devoted to
foreign affairs. AS was expected,
the greater part of the message was
devoted to the financial question,
which is as it should be, that being
to-day the most important question
before the American people in po-
litical way. From the previous out
spoken position of the president, it
was correctly surmised that single
gold standard would make up the
sum total of his financial wisdom.
The president is in no sense BIZ
metallist, and his advocacy of the
single standard is a direct slap at
Gov Altgeld, Buck Hinrichson and
other democrats that ilk, with whom
the majority of the Michigan demo-
cracy, as indicated by their last state
platform, are properly to be num-
bered. Concerning the tariff, it is
not surprising that very little is said.
Intelligent democrats are not saying
very much about their tariff policy
nova days. 1t is amusing, however,
to see the president try to lay the
blame on the republican tariff. An
article elsewhere in this department
will show clearly the sophistry of Mr..
Cleveland's talk. An effort is made
in the message to defend the sale of
bonds to the foreign syndicate, and
the president says he is willing to
bear his full share of responsibility
for that course; we have not heard of
anyone who is anxious to share it
with him, especially in view of the
fact that the issue of bonds to the
syndicate or to any other persons was
only made necessary by the ruinous
financial policy of the democratic
party. Taken as a whole, it does
not seem to us that the presidents
message is strong one, or that it
will fill an important position in the
history of state papers. 1t will not
be pleasing to his party as political
document, as it makes no new issue,
and does nothing to help the demo-
cracy out of the hole into which it
has fallen through it own acts. His
party by the message even more
hopelessly divided than before on the
silver question. No, Grover Cleve-
lands message is not remarkable,
either as a state paper or as politi-
cal document.
Germans Exclamation.