Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-11

inmates in ga an intimation that tn,
United States may not continue it,
policy of non interference much long
er. Indeed, Spain will, in all likeli
hood, take it as threat on the par
OF this government to stop the wal
In Cuba at no distant day unless il
is sooner terDiuated by tie Spanisl
on one side or the revolutionis.s O,
the other. This part OF the rresi
dents message is characterized b,
marked conservatism and great good
sense.
AS was to have been expected, Mr.
Cleveland has learned little from the
terrific agitation of the currency
question which has shaken tbs ua.
ton to its foundation for the past
three years. Consequently he AL
heres to his preoonceived policy of
currency COZ traction by proposing
to retire our non interest beuring
paper currency and substitute for it
national bank issues, based on a
bond debt of $500, 0C0,0O0 for an
extended period. This simply means
that the people Of the United States
are asked 10 pay SIS, 900, 900 per an
nil. for what they now get for moth.
ing, which in thirty years woIld
amount to the enormous sum of
S45O,O00,000l No party in America
fnvors any such plan The brainicst
men of tine Republican party have
time aud again opposed the PROPOSE
ton; the New York Sun, ablest and
EXTREMIST of the gold standard or.
saus on this continent, recently de-.
clared that ''ihc attempt to do this
would sink any party under heaven
ont OF sight, and nobody has the
hardihood to propose such thing
but the E'st IN money jnlers and
the only President of the United
States who ever surrendered the
ie1eral treasury into their Keeping.
There is good assurance in the re.
lection that such II thing cannot be
done by tue Cleveland administration
and will not even he proposed by
LlsSuccossor i'll Office.
The message on the tariff is n
weak and meaningless thing com
pared with Mr. Clevelands other
radical declarations on the same sub
ject. 1t is n tame defence of the
Wilson tnritt' law, which is, indeed.
an indcfcnsible scheme of tariff taxa
ton but which is the progeny Of
Ci' elandism. the product of all his
pm e'ons promi les. Ard it is n
significant fact that, whereas the
President "denie1 with swearing. in
his last message that there was any
deficiency of revenue or that IL single
dollar reserve had been expend, d TO
meet current expenses, in the mes
sage To Congress yesterday lie puts
up an elaborate plea for the right to
use the reserve in that behalf.
The denunciatlon of trusts and
monopolies-'iEe communism of
pell,' rs the President once called
these rich corporations-comes with
little grace from an administration
that maden trust lawyer Attorney
General and that h0s never lifted n
finger to execute the federal laws
that were enacted to put down com
binatlons i'll restraint of trade. All
"f the disasters which the President
depicts rs being rcferable to such
corporations have had wide range
nnder the present Il, ministration
than under any other in the history
of the Republic.
Altogether there is nothing sur.
prising in the Presidents message
On near every vital topic discussed
he is out of touch with the Congress
to which his message is addressed
out of harmony with the next SIC
ceeding administration, and ont of
sympathy with the great body Of
American people -Lynchburg News
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