Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-08
EXECUTIVE VIEWS
On the Momentous Subjects Be.
fore the People.
MISREPRESENTATION MESSAGE
Insurgent Sympathizers Will Not Find
Very Much Comfort in the
Document.
NO RECOGNITION FROM UNCLE SAM

The Insurgents Have Not Yet Made Good
Their Title To BE Regarded as an INDIE
pendent State-The President Recon-
mcnds the Retirement of the Greenbacks
rs y Remedy for the Financial Situation
The Venezuela Boundary Dspute-Thc
Wilson Tariff Bill Favored-Legislntion
for Control of Trusts.
Washington, Dec. 7.-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 O time when
the strength and excellence of our free
institutions and the fitness of our citi-
zens to enjoy popular rule have been
again made manifest. a political con-
test involving momcntous consequences.
fraught with feverish apprehension.
and creating aggresslveness so intense
as to approach bitterness and passion.
has been Waeed 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
d
ions we discover abundant 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 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 unselhsh service
In their behalf as can only be prompt
cd by serious appreciation of the
trust and confidence which the accept
ance Of public duty invites.
The president then says tina. in obel-
ience to constitutional requirement he
submits certain information as to ma
tionai 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
United 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 mti-
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 cur 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
10 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
1t seems hardly possible that the earn
est demand of good people Throughout,
the Christian world for its corrective