Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-05

the prssldsnt that relate to the business of their respective departments. The mesesRe is practically complete, except as relates to the Cuban question. The varying phases of the campaign in Cuba have made 1t necessary to change con- sidersbly the views the president and Secretary Olney desire to lay before con- gress. Probably not until the very lsst moment will be missing paragraphs be supplied. Of oourse any expression of opinion as to the nature of the presi- dents views respecting Cuba are only speculative at the present. but 90 far there can be found no warrant for the assumption that he has determined up- on any deoidsd chsnge of policy.
 MILWAUKEE, Dec. IA special te the Evening Wisconsin from Chippewa Fslls says: The situation in Cnippsws Fslls is growing more serious every moment. The mammoth ice gorge which formed SIX miles down the river has backed in- to the city and sn imme nse volume of
 water coming from above is spreading on each side iDundstiDg large por- tiops of the town. Today every merchant is moving to 6 place of safety. The water has filled the bssenents Of business blocks almost the entire length of Bridge street. Before evening it is expe cted the water will have reached the court. house eight blocks from the river. There is much excitement but every. thing is orderly. About fifty families on the south side who were forced to move were reported in want. and relief
 was given to some families who had taken refuge in empty housas and were without food or warmth. Bridge Super. inteDdent Csllihsn, of the Central road, was instructed to blsst out tne gorge st the east but would not undertake it. He ssid all the dynamite manufactur- ed could not budRe it. It seems all that can be done is to sit down and watch the approach of the flood. The water this morning began to rise at the rate of c foot an hour. It looks ss though the entire town would be inundated.
 WAsHINGToN, Nov. 3O-Ths Post, in . cable letter from London, will print to-
 morrow an advance copy of sn import ant article written by Hon. William E. Chandler, senator from New Hampshire, for the December issue of the National Review, the Conservative monthly, in
 which he discusses the late election from the republican standpoint His principal object is to encourage Euro pesn bimetallists to continue their prop. agsnda.
 The Review. commenting editorislly upon the election of Major Mckinley, dogmaticslly aseerts that sunless the repu bIicsn party settles the silver ques- tion before 1900 there will be nothing left of that party after 1900"
 Senator Chsndler's article is ss fol. lows: European bimetsllists need not believe that the selection of Mckinley and Hobart by overwhelming msjorities is decision to permanently scceds to the single gold standard. The Bryan proposition was soon seen by the Amer. ican voters to be simply that the United States should accept silver moEometsl- lism, shsll give up all attempts to keep gold and silver at @ ksrity; should send gold to premium and thereby make it merchandise merely, and ehould base all American prices upon silver only. It tion by any true bimetsllist that sue. action on our part should have helped the cause of bimetsllism in any country in the world.
 "It is true that the Bry yanites called themselves bimetallists, and Mir. Bryan, ID hIs recent Outcry from his temporary political eutombmsnt, addresses not the democrats nor the populists, nor the people, but the bimetallIst. This, how ever. is cheer sffectstion. No Bryan or Ator or writer has seriously denied that the adoption of bis polioy-'ihe immed,- ate, unlimited free coinage of silver by the United States alone'--would send gold to premium and keep 1t there for sn indefinite period. Surely that ould be silver monometallIsm, and can it be con'ended that silver monometallism is any better stepping-stone to bimstallism than gold monODetsllism? l had sup- posed that it was generally agreed by thoughtful and rational bimetsl.ists ev- srywbere tbas 1t would not help but rsth- sr hinder the cause of bimetsllism for the United States to leap at once to free silver coinage. How, then, can the late deolsion of the Unite d States sgsinst im- mediate free coinage inJure the contest Tor bimstsllism? Hero the question might be left for fuller survey of all the causes of the defeat of Mir. Bryan and the election of Mr. Mckinley may be useful.
 "Conservative people-snd America nas more conservatives than Europeans alarmed st tho character of the followers of Mir. Bryan, and with .hsir doctrine additional to the one free silver coinage. All the anarchists and wild men of society whom Europe has sent us, by Bryan. although the great bulk of our adopted oitlzens voted for The platform seemsd to ri0ting ss 8 means of re- lress of grievances and it made one of ts plauks reconstruction of the su- ,reme court in order to change legal de- ,isiOns.
 "A majority of the people wish a moro 'nerRetic foreign policy than they be- isve will como from any administration ,smed democratic. They are deeply Affected by the lsmentable conditian of he Christian subjects of the Turkish empire. They mean to annex Hawaii; hey desire to sec Venezuela allowed to etsin her rightful sole ot dominion over he mouth of the Orlnoco. They are in- snsely anxious to see arrested the in Cuba and to aid in making be island free and independent.
 "But none of the foregoing reasone, lot even the one concerning the national lonor in connection with the currency, Dfiuenced SO many voters against MT. Bryan az did the determination of the American people plainly to vindicste | nd firmly to establish the principle of | to American industries by ! dequsts tariff duties on foreign pro- ucts.
 "Tbatthe United States is opposed to ha ainuln 0old etandard and ia in fa.