Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-11

AiS a1eS IN aA an animation that the
UnIied States may not continue IL,
policy of non interference much long
er Indeed, Spain will. in all likeli
hood, take it as "a threat on the par,
OF this government to stop the wal
I'D Cuba at no distant day unless il
is sooner Terminated by tie Spanish
on Que side or the revolutionis.s or
the other. This part OF the rresi.
dents message is characterized by
marked conservatism aud great good
sense.
As was to have been expected, Mr..
Cleveland has learned little from the
terrific agitation of the currency
question which has shaken It's ma
ton to its foundation for the past
three years. Consequently he al
here's TO bis preconceived policy of
currency COZ traction by proposing
to retire our non interest bearing
paper currency and substitute for it
national bank issues, based or a
bond debt of $5OO,OCO.OOO for an
Extended period. This simply means
that the people of the United States
are asked TO pay $4,000, 900 per an
nui2 for what they now get for moth
ing, which in thirty years woLld
amount to the enormous sum Of
S45O,OOO,O00! No party in America
favors any such plan. The braiI,icst
men of the Republican party have
time aud again opposed the PROPOSE
ton; the New York Sun. ablest and
EXTREMIST of the gold standard or
gans on this continent, recently de-
clared that the attempt to do this
would sink any party under heaven
oHt of sight, and nobody has the
hardihood TO propose such IA thing
but the Il 'st TN money inl ers and
the only President of the United
States who ever surrendered the
federal treasury into their keeping.
There is a good assurance In the re-
Election that such a thing cannot be
done by tue Cleveland administration
and will not even he proposed by
GisSuccesa0r In Office.
The message on the tariff is
weak and meaningless thing CON
pared with Mr. Clevelands other
radical declarations on the same sub
lect. 1t is "A tame defence of the
Wilson tariff law, which is, indeed.
an indefensible scheme of tatiff taxa
ton, but which is 'Lo progeny Of
O. 'elandism. the product of all his
pm e Gus promi es. Ard it is
significant fact that, whereas the
President denied with swearing. in
his last message that there was any
deficiency Of revenue or that IA single
dollar reserve had been expend, d TO
meet current expenses, in the mes
sage to Congress yesterday he puts
up an elaborate plea for the right to
use the reserve in that behalf.
The denunriation of Trusts and
monopoles--"the communism of
pell,' as the President once called
these rich corporations-comes with
little grace from an administration
that made ii trust lawyer Attorney
General and that hus never lifted
finger to execute the federal laws
that were enacted TO put down com
blnatlons IN restraint of trade. All
of the disasters which the President
depicts a being reierable to such
corporations have had wide range
under the present n, ministration
than under any other in the history
of the Republic.
Altogether there is nothing sur
prising in the Presidents message
Ga near every vital topic discussed
he Is out of touch with the Congress
to which his message is addressed
out of harmony with the next sec
ceeding administration, and ont of
sympathy with the great body Of
American people -Lynchburg News
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