The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-12-09
NO COMFORT FOR CUBA
President Holds Out Little Hope
to Insurgents.
ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
Executives Views on the Various Sub.
jests Which Are Before the Peo-
pie of tbs Country.
RETIREMENT OF THE GREENBACKs


L. Pointed Out as the Remedy To str light
en- Out the Financial Questionable ven-
s.ueis boundary Question Has Now
Ceased To he "a Matter of Difference he
tween This Country aud Great britain
The Wilson Tariff Bill Favored by the
Touched Upon.
Washington. Dec. Following Is
the final message OF President Cleve-
land TO congress:
To the Congress of the United States:
AS representatives OF the people in the
legislative branch of their government
you have assembled at a time when
the strength and excellence of our free
institutions and the fitness of our citi
zens 10 enjoy popular rule have been
again made manifest. A political con-
test involving momentous consequences,
fraught with feverish apprehension.
and creating aggressiveness so intense
as 10 approach bitterness and passion,
has been waged throughout our land
and determined by the decree of free
and independent suffrage without dis
turbance of our tranquility or the least
sign of weakness in our national struct-
ure. When we consider these incidents
and contemplate the peaceful obedience
and manly submission which have sue
ceeded a heated clash OF political opin-
Ions we discover abundant evidence of
a 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 established. 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 service
In their behalf as can only be prompt
ed by serious appreciation OF the
trust and confidence which the accept
ance of public duty invites.
Refers to the Unspeakable Turk.
The president then says that in obed-
tence to constitutional requirement he
submits certain information as TO ma
tional affairs with such suggestions as
his judgment approves. and that he
shall omit details regarding domestic
and foreign matters that are contained
in departmental and other reports sub
mitted TO congress. He then refers TO
Turkey and the Armenians, stating
that he would like to assure congress
that the European powers having
treaty rights to interfere had miti-
gated the shocking features of the stu
alton. This he says has not been done
and that reports of bloody butcheries
are still all too frequent. With refer
ence TO our own action he says we have
left nothing undone to protect those
coming under our care, and that our
efforts will not be relaxed
The claim of American citizens for
indemnity for loss of property will be
pressed, although the validity of these
demands has not been admitted by
Turkey, in spite of the strongest evil
dence OF the actual completely of Turk
ish soldiers in the destruction. Happily
no American life has been taken. He
closes as follows on the subject:
/ do not believe that the present
somber prospect in Turkey will be long
permitted to offend the sight of Chris
tendon. 1t so mars the humane and
enlightened civilization that belongs to
the close of the nineteenth century that
IL seems hardly possible that the earn
est demand of good people throughout
the Christian world for its corrective
treatment will remain unanswered