The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-12-17
HIS LAST MESSAGE.
EN0PSiS OF PRESIDENT CLEVE.
LAMBS MESSAGE.
be Business of the Government
Reviewed and atjons
Madeline Cuban situation Dis
cussed at LenSth-Improyements
in the Financial system Urged
The Tariff Considered.

INT Cleveland s message to congress:
10 the Congress of the United States:
representatives Of the people in
e legislative branch of their govern
ent, you lave assembled at n time
hen the strength and the excellence
our free institutions and the fitness
our citizens To enjoy popular rule,
i've been again made manifest. A po-
tical contest involving mOmentouS
knsequenceS, flaught with feverish
bpreheHSion and creating aggressive
lsS 50 intense as TO approach bitter
kss and passion. has been waged
krOughout our land, and determined
II the decree of free and Independent
hffrage, without the disturbance of
|r tranquility or the least sign Of
beakness in IL national structure.
Then we consider these incidents and
.|ntemplate the peaceful obedience
Ld manly submission which have
|ccecded a heated clash Of political
Unions, we discover abundance OF
|idence of a determination on the
brit Of our countrymen to abide by
Fery verdict of the popular will and
J be controlled at all times by an
biding faith in the agencies establish
! for the direction of the affairs Of
Ieir government. Thus people
tbibit a patriotic disposition which
btitleS them to demand Of those who
Ldertake to make and execute their
Tvs such faithful and unSeifish serv-
k in their behalf as can only be
by a serious appreciation of
la tp,re- n ND ,aAyl hlAnHn which Ihn ~
of public duty invites"
With this analysis of the recent cleo
bD, President Cleveland begins his
lnual message to congress. The doe
ment comprises o than 10000
Ords. 1t contains. besides, n wealth
departmental information and sta
sites, Il succinct review of the Cuban
,volution without committing the
States government to an avOW-
of hostility. either against the SOW
of Spain or the Cuban inSur-
'nts.
President Cleveland begins that por-
On of his message devoted TO foreign
fairs by referring to the report of
e secretary of state for all details in
injection with minor matters. He
ZEN declares that the disturbed con
in Asiatic Turkey has assumed
less hideous and bloody aspect dur
gthe past years, owing to the decis-
e action on the part of the great ma
vls, and the consequent awakening
J the Turkish government to the de
hnds OF human civilization. So far
J the United States government is
Mcerned il has left undOne nothing
br the protection of American mis-
and citizens in the Ottoman
Hpire. Continuing, the president
ms: II do not believe that the pres
BIT sombre prospect in Turkey will be
hg permitted to offend the sight Of
Eristiandom. 1t so mars the humane
Ed enlightened civilization that be
|lgs to the close of the nineteenth
injury that it seems hardly possible
bat the earnest demand of good peo-
b throughout the Christian world for
} corrective treatment, Will remain
President Cleveland in dealing with
k Cuban situation ~unalteraDly OPP
keS the recognition of the insurgents
beligcrents. He believes the situa-
Ln to be too delicate for any inter
Ention on the part of the United
|atcs at the present time, although
) message strongly hints that the
outcome may require an az
stand on the part OF this gov
With the greatest dellcacy
J deyotes a large portion of his mes
bee TO a review of the situation, and
bnts as q solution of the vexed prob
IN, the offer to Cuba on the part OF
Eaip Of genuine autonomy. The in
Erection, he declares, still continues
fh all its p~erplcXities. No decision
Rs been reached in the trial at arms.
III Spain has not yet re-eStabliShed
Pf authority, neither have the inSur-
tnts yet made good their title to be
as an independent state
Ne pretext that civil government eX-
rs on The island, except so far as
vain is able to maintain it, has been
lactically abandoned. But that eX-
option being made the entire country
} either given owe to anarchy, or is
inject to military occupation Of one
: the other party. 1t is reported in
ked on reliable authority that at the
tmand of the commander-in-chief Of
ee insurgent army the putative Cuban
has now given up all at
smpts to exercise its functions ,leaV-
" that government (but there is best
sason for supposing it always to have
zen in fact a government merely on
President Cleveland is disposed to
e2nowledgn the ~supariorlt" OF the
vanish arms and of the Cuban tao
yes. He says, however, unless a very
peedy contest in the open Is had the
plcy Of the Spanish government not
% Interfere with the destruction OF
Foperty will ruin the fertility, pro-
a%activeness and consequent CONNER
val value of the island.
The message points out the many
sstangling interests Of the United
Yates in Cuba. Almost S50,O0O,OU OF
ssAerican capital is invested there and
We trade before the revolution reached
Our concern In Cuba Is
uerp fnta nnithar antip,anfa nor vet