The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-08

eoQulaiuon OF the elhno or an tntertefonco WIN It's
control BY any 9th sr Powbr.n
shave deemed u not smiss to remind the Con.
gress that q time may arrive when . correct
policy and care for our lnterests, a. well as
q regard for the intsrestA Of other nations
and their citisenh, Joined by considerations Of
humanity and q desire to zee q rich and fertile
country Intimately related to ua saved from complete
Devastation, will %constraln our Government TO auch
action - will subserva the interests thus involved,
and at the same time promise TO Cuba and its in.
haoitants an opportunity 70 enjoy the blessings OF
peace"
These are manly words, brave words, taken
alone; but the time has not arrived, and,
meanwhile, I'VE should continue in the line
of policy heretofore pursued 7" by Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND. Thus struggling, bleeding Cuba goes
to the MCKINLEY kalends.
The same with the perishing furs seal Of
Alaska, another victim of C~LEvELAED's
policy Of evasion and delay. Commission
ers will soon report on the habits Of the
fur seal, and, " with the exercise Of patience
and good sense on the part of ell interested
parties, 1t is earnestly hoped that hearty CO.
operation may be secured for the protection
against threatened extinction of seal life in
the northern Pacific and Bohring Sea-"
That, likewise, will be after the 4th Of
March, IL there be any fur seals left.
The foremost domestic question, that of
the startling inadequacy Of our revenues, Ia
discussed by Mr.. CLEVELAND as cheerfully
as II he had had nothing to do with the
direful situation confronting us. Concern
ing the operations Of the WILSON bill, which
10 piling up an annual deficit OF seventy or
eighty millions this year, he complacently
remarks that whatever may be Its short
cominRs as u complete measure Of tariff re-
form, 1t must be conceded that it has
opened the way to . freer and greater ex-
change of commodities between us and
other countries. and thus furnished a wider
market for our products and manufac-
lures" He has the assurance to add that
the WILSON law. as a revenue producer.
can by no means fall under just
condemnation" He believes, or pre-
tends to believe, that, IL allowed a
fair opportunity, it will in the near future
yield q revenue which, with reasonably
economical expenditures, will overcome all
d~elciencies." Meanwhile, mo deficit that
has occurred or may occur, need excite or
disturb u.s." Why this amazing calmness
in the face Of an eighty million deficit! Be
~cause-and the information is pumped either
from unsupported depths Of humor in Mr..
CLEvBLAND's own nature, or 1t proceeds
from the unsophisticated M~icawberism of
Mr.. CARLIsLE's financial philosophy-be-
cause to meet any such deficit, we have in
the Treasury, in addition to q gold reserve
of one hundred millions, q surplus Of more
than one hundred and tl%penty-ctght miltton
dollars applicable to the payment Of
the erpensss of the Government, and
tchtch must, unless expended for that
purpose, remain a useless hoard"
Not a word to indicate that this
m sum is what remains of
the proceeds of 9aee, 900 900 of bonds sold
by Mr.. CLEvELAND's Administration to
statement by Mr.. CLEVELAND, often re-
peated, that the loan was in no sense an ex-
pedient to meet current expenses. He goes
on to draw q contrast between the individual
struggling to accumulate funds not
needed for immediate expenditure, and
q Government charged with the duty
Of expanding for the benefit of the
people and for proper purposes all
the money it receives from any source"
' 1t is immeas, ra ly better" he adds, ITO
appropriate Our surplus to the payment OF
j%ustifable expenses than to allow it to be-
come an invitation to reckless appropria-
tiuns and extravagant expenditures." This
our surplus" is the sublimest. not to say
checklist. phrase in the official literature of
a whole century. Why excite ourselves
about any deficit caused by the CLEvE-
A y experiment in tariff reform, when we
l.r1 T., Az q. - II, nj .;tt-v
of a gold reserve of one hundred million dol
lars. and one hundred and twenty-eight
millions more, borrowed by Mr.. CLEVELAND
to protect the gold reserve This is enough,
II applied to current expenditures, to keep
off the wolf at least until after the 4th of
next March.
Passing for the present over the Presi-
dents suggestions for the retirement Of the
Rreenbacks, we come to his final topic.
Once more he grapples with the Trusts.
He has learned enough now to admit
that the Trusts do, in many cases, re-
duce prices and thus benefit the public;
but he sagely observes that where Trusts do
in any case lower prices to the consumer,
at Is only because 1t dccords Nth the pur-
poses or Interests Of those managing the
bCftVtS. hIS dcliCiOub lOIbC tiOLl
Mr.. C~LEvELASD's own mind would be
spoiled by II word Of comment. He pro-
ceeds to explain that he hates the Trusts
not so much because they lower prices, as
because " their tendency is to crush out in
dividual Independence and to hinder or pre-
vent the free use of human faculties and the
full development of human character"
Mr.. CLEVELAND despairs, however, Of deal
ing adequately with the Trusts by
Federal action" He turns over the awful
subject, which has occupied his intellect for
so great u part Of the past ten years, to the
indefinite future and to "the several
States" for effective treatment.
With the happy consciousness Of hav-
ing unloaded everything, this wonderful
statesman winds up his last message to
Congress with a beautiful tribute to him
self: when our differences are forgotten,
and our contests Of political opinion are
no longer remembered, nothing in the
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