The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-05
WHILE HE HIMSELF
Retires With Vast Fortunes
Accum ulated
During Period Where No One
Else Could Acquire Wealth.

Washington, D. c., March Spy John
]. Ingalls, in the New YoHk JournaL)-The
last day of Grover Cleveland
Had the American people no other cause
for universal joy this alone would suffice
He went into power with much opposi-
ton. He goes out with none. The nation
shares the relief with which he processes
to anticipate liberation from the cares
and burdens of state If he has a hearty,
cordial, sincere friend, advocate, and
champion in either house of congress he
turks privately in ambush and makes no
announcement. Intrusted with plenary
power by the people in 1893. the failure OF
his administration in every department
stands confessed.
His policy at home has been destructive,
and abroad humiiiating and ignoninious.
The degraded coalition by which he was
elected made no promises that he has not
violated, and gave no pledges that he has
fOrded neither revenue for the treasury,
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neither confidence nor prosperity. Upon
serve the nationaI deht has been i5creasd-
and bonds sold to favored syndicates to
meet deficiencies in the ordinary expenses
His diplomacy has been apologize and
vacillating to the verge of dishonor, saved
only from infany by its grotesQue and d.
verting imbecility. The Hawaiian episode
comic opera There has been no day in
the last four years that has not witnessed
bank closed, some railroad in the hands
of a receiver, some merchant broken,
! some furnace extinguished. some manned
| and disabled veteran stigmatized and
| branded with dishonor, driven to the asy-
| lum or the grave. Boosting of his robust
| and incorruptible integrity. he retires with
a vast fortune accumulated during the
most disastrous period of the country's
duced from affluence to want and from
poverty to beggary.
History will record it's incredulity that
such impostor could not long escape
detection. He is the central figure of one
/ to rrvfi Job ~ f1Te try
will ever revert without blush of indig-
nant shame at the destruction of its re
! and honor; period that has no parallel
| except in the time of Walpole, described
| by Macaulay as the era of dwarfish tai
| ents and gigantic vices; the paradise of
| cold hearts and narrow minds; the golden
| age of the coward, the bigot, and the
| slave. He bequeaths to his successor fall
| ing revenues, disordered finances, pros
! which has already obliterated political
| frontiers and will compel the readjust-
tered.
| becoming constantly more jealous of its
| prerogatives. the new chief magistrate
| feet with circumspection. He must take
heed how he stands lest he fall The peo-
| pie are fatigued with adversely. They are
/ tired of hard times. They anticipate some
| miraculous and supernatural return of
| KinIey standing like Moses at Horeb to
| whom Hamilton was hkened by Webster
the rock of the national resources and
abundant streams of revenue gushed
forth: he touched the dead corpse of the
| public credit and it sprang to its feet"
| But the menacing manifesto of the sill
yer Republicans dispelS the hope of a safe
administration majority in that body and
makes the fate of the tariff bill, which
precariOuS.
Meanwhile, with the warehouses rapidly
filling with the importations of all COM
moditieS whose price would be increased
by the new bill. the prospect of increased
! revenues from customs duties is not very
| expect that the president will abandon
| the system with which his name and
| fame are so indissolubly associated. and
to the promotion of which he stands
| pledged, but to the DISTINGUISHED observer
| it looks as though an additional tax on
beer, whisky, tobacco, and some of the
other neceSSarieS of life would be the
safest and easiest expedient for meeting
| the emergency.
| incidentally the attitude of the senate
emphasizes the demand that the consti-
tuition should be amended as to provide
| for the election of senators by vote of the
people. The fathers of the republic dis
trusted the capacity of the people for
self-government- They endeavored to de-
priVe them of direct power in the selection
of president and senate But the great
scandals and reproacheS of our politics
have not come from the immediate suf-
frages of constituencies, but rather from
the culpable intrigues of INSCRIPTIONS
leaders and the venality of corrupt legiS-
! latures. Experience proves that the Wild
est excuses of popular liberty are prefer
able to the dangers of its denial, however
placid and splendid and gilded the SubSti-
tute may be.