Arizona republican., 1896-12-08
CLEVELAND'S LAST MESSAGE
It Is Devoid of Any Sensational
 Features.
The President Devotes Considera- bIe Space to the Cuban Question. but Gives No EncouraRement to the Jingos.

To the Congress of the United Statesc
 'As representative of the people in the legislative branch of their govern ment, you have assembled at time when the strength and excellence M our free constitution and the ftnesE of our citizens to enjoy popular rule
 have been again made manifest. "A political contest involving momentous consequences, fraught with fevertsh
 apprehension and creating aggressive
 ness so intense as to approach bitter
 ness and passion has been Waged throughout our land and determined by the decree of free and independent tranquility or the least sign of weak ness in our national structure When we consider these incidents and contemplate the peaceful Obeai ence and manly submission which have succeeded a heated clash of DO litical opinions we discover abuna- ant 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 estab- lished for the direction of the affairs | of their government.
 | Thus our people exhibit a patriotE i disposition which entities them to de mand of those who undertake to make
 and execute their laws such faithful
 and unselfish service in their behalf as
 can only be prompted by a serious ap
 preciation of the trust and confidence which the acceptance of public duty aH vites."
 With this analysis Of the recent
 election, President Clev eland begins his annual message to congress.
 The document comprises more than 20,0OO words It contains besides 3
 wealth of departmental information
 and statistics succinct review of the Cuban revolution without committing
 the United States government to an
 avowal of hostility eitheT against the
 sovereignty of Spain or the Cuban iB surgents.
 President Cleveland begins that pox
 tion of his message devoted to foreign
 affairs by referring congress to the re
 port of the secretary of state for all de tails in connection with minor matters He then declares that the disturtes icondition in Asiatic- Turkey has ass,1n
 ed less hideous and bloody aspect dur ing the past year, owing to the deeis- i've action on the part Of the great na- tions and the consequent awakening of the Turkish government to the de mand of human civilization. So far as the United States government M Iconcerned, it has left undone nothing for the protection of American miss sionaries and citizens in the Ottoman Empire. Continuing, tic president
 says:
 T do not believe the present sumbre 2 prospect in Turkey will be long per
 mitted to offend the sight of Chrfsten dom. It so mars the humane and
 enlightened civilization that b~longs to the close of the nineteenth century,
 that it seems hardly possible that inc Eearnest demand of good pe0pfe throughout the Christian world for itg
 corrective treatment will remain Hs
 answered"
 President Cleveland, in dealing wNB
 the Cuban situation, unalterably 0P-
 poses the recognition of the insurgenu as belligerents. He believes the sitH ation to be too delicate for any inter vention on the part Of tue United States at the present time although l his message strongly hints that the sis
 timate outcome may require an aggreE sive stand on the part ot this govern ! ment With greatest delicaey he de
 votes a large portion of his message tc !. a review Of the situation and points ax ) a solution of the problem the offer to l Cuba on the part of Spain, genuine : autonomy The insurreetion, he de
 clares, still continues with all it's per plexities. No decision has been 5 reached in the trial at arms. If Spain has not yet re-established her author : ity, neither have the insurgents -yet
 made good their title to be regarded l as an independent state The preten } that civil government exists on the is- l land except so far as Spain is able 0 ] maintain it, has been practically abaD-
 doned, but that exception being made l r. the entire country is either given over t to anarcy or is subject to military occupation of one or other party. It 2 l is reported, indeed, on reliable author lity, that on the demand ef the com- = mander-in-chief of the inshFgent army l the putative Cuban government flaS l now given up all attempts to exercise
 it's functions, leaving that government 7 confessedly powerless, but there is the t best reason for supposing 1t always to l have been in fact a government merely on paper"
 President Cleveland is disposed to
 acknowledge the superiority of the