The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-12-15
HIS LAST MESSAGE.
SYNOPSIS OF PRESIDENT CLEVE-
LANDS MESSAGE.
The Business of the Government
Reviewed and Recommendations
Made-The Cuban Situation Dis
cussed at Length-1mproveme
in the Financial system Urged
The Tariff Considered.

The following is synopsis Of Presi-
dent Cleveland's message to congress:
TO the Congress OF the United States:
As representatives of the people iii
the legislative branch of their govern
Ilent, YOU lave assembled at time
when the strength and the excellence
Of cur free institutions and the fitness
OF our citizens to ENJOY popular rule;
have been again made manifest. A POI
litical contest involving momentous
consequences, fraught with feverish
apprehension and creating aggressive
ness 50 intense as to approach bitter
ness and passion, has been Waged
throughout our land, and determined
by the decree of free and independent
suffrage, without the disturbance of
our tranquility or the least sign OF
weakness in our national structure.
When we consider these incidents and
contemplate the peaceful obedience
and manly submission which have
succeeded heated clash of political
opinions, we discover abundance of
evidence of determination on the
part of our countrymen to abide by
every verdict of the popular will and
to be controlled at all times by an
abiding faith in the agencies establish
their government. Thus our people
exhibit a patriotic disposition which
entities them to demand of those who
undertake to make and execute their
laws such faithful and unselfish serv-
lee in their behalf as can only be
prompted by a serious appreciation of
the trust and confidence which the ac-
ceptance Of public duty invites"
With tbi- ona1VSIS of the recent cleo
ti0n, President Cleveland begins his
annual message to congress. The doc
ument comprises more than 10000
words. 1t contains, besides, a wealth
of departmental information and sta
tistics, q succinct review of the Cuban
revolution without committing the
United States government to an avoW-
al of hostility. either against the SOW
ereignty of Spain or the Cuban lnSur-
gents.
President Cleveland begins that por-
tion of his message devoted to foreign
affairs by referring to the report OF
the secretary Of state for all details In
connection with minor matters. Lie
then declares that the disturbed con-
dition in ASiatic Turkey has assumed
q less hideous and bloody aspect dur
in gthe past years, owing to the decls-
i've action on the part OF the great ma
tons, and the consequent awakening
Of the Turkish government to the de-
mands of human civilization. SO TAR
as the United States government is
concerned it has left undone nothing
for tie protection of American mis-
sionaries and citizens in the Ottoman
empire. Continuing, the president
saws: Il do not believe that the pres
emf sombre prospect in Turkey Will DE
Iono nprmitted to offend the sight OF
Christiandom it so mars the humane
and enlightened civilization that De-
longs to the close of the nineteenth
century that it seems hardly possible
that the earnest demand of good pe0-
ME throughout the Christian world FOR
it's corrective treatment, VIII remain
unanswered" -
President Cleveland in dealing with
the Cuban situation unalteraDly OPP
poses the recognition of the Insurgents
as beligerentS. He believes the Sltua-
iion to be too delicate for any inter-
yention on the part OF the Uhlleu
states at the present time, altnouSn
his message strongly hints that the
ultimate outcome may require an az
gressiye stand on the part OF TINS gov
prnment With the greatest dehcacy
he devotes a large portion OF MS mes
sage to a review OF the sltuatloii, anu
noints as Il solution of the yexed prob
lem. the offer to Cuba on the part Oh
Snaip of genuine autonomy. The IN
sutrecfion. he declares. still continues
with all it's perpleXities. No decision
has been reached in the trial at arms.
eff Spain has not yet re-establlshed
her authority. neither have the insur-
gents vet made good their title to be
regarded as an independent state
The pretext mat civil government eX-
lists on the island, except so far as
Snain is able to maintain it, has been
nracticalIv abandoned. But that eX-
centiop being made the entire country
is either given over to anarchy, OF IS
subject to military occupation OF one
or the other party. 1t is reported IN
deed on reliable authority that at the
demand of the commandments OF
the insurgent army the putative CUBAN
government has now given up all at
ten,uts to exercise its functions ,leaV-
inc that government (but there IS pest
reason for supposng it always to nave
been in fact a government merely Oh
paper. 5 -
acknowledge the superiority of The
spanish arms and of the Cuban tao
ties. lie says, however, unless very
speedy contest in the open is had the
poIicv of the Spanish government not
10 interfere with the destruction OF
property will ruin the fertility, pro-
ductiyeness and consequent CONNER
eial value of the island.
The message points out the many
entangifng interests of the United
states in Cuba Almost $o0.OO0OOO OF