Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-09
EXECUTIVE Ll..:.ATIoNs.
Adequate Revenue the Aim Of the He
publican Administration.

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| publican Administration.
What is this administration Tor? The
! people have elected Il president and a
congress. Was il to put one man ia
the place of another-Sherman in place
of olney. Gage in place of Carlisle, Hay
in place of Bayard, and SO on? \ good
thing, SO far, but was il all? The APP
/ pointmeGts count for little. The peo-
pie want To know what is TO be done for
their interests. Government is really
an intensely practical matter to Amer
leans. government which makes
them poor-as Cleveland's did-they
bource. Has the new administration
the wit and the power TO do better? II
il can do better the soreness OK poll
ticians who do not get what they want
will count for little. II il cannot, thas
soreness will catch its semblance OF
justification from the general disap-
pointment.
The public is apt TO suppose that a
tnriH bill which pleases the admin
istration will pass, and one which of
tends il will fail. But the administra-
tion cannot be held responsible for the
preferences of senators and representa-
ti'es, and il would be quite likely to
iail II n should attempt 10 control
them. 1t can and does express pref
crences, Just as il has expressed oppo.
sition TO the sugar schedule of the bill
reported 70 the SENATE; but the re.
sponsibility lies with the republican sen
ators and representatives If they were
to send 10 the president a bill better
than the present tariff. and vet "a bill
Il Igf fffI l....l -.
an extreme supposition-vet IL might
he the duty of the president TO sign il
II he believed that no better could bc
passed this year. The men i'm congress
must frame the laws, and the influence
OF the administration can rarely be
eNerted with wisdom in trying TO die
tate their form.
About foreign matters men are prone
10 say that the administration is sole
ly responsible. But that is not at all
true. Behind the question what ought
t. be done is the question what the
country can do with safety. If il has
at any moment a lack of resources,
what sense would there be in n foreign
policy which would involve the risk OF
vastly expensive conteSt2 That was
the foolishness of President Clcveland's
behavior in foreign affairs. Just when
the treasury was in great need, he pro-
claimed foreign policy which seemed
particularly likely to invite a war Car
itably, it may be presumed that he did
not comprehend the situations; but the
business world knew, and thereupon
dropped Mir. Cleveland from it's list of
safe men forever. IT will not do for an
American president to court war with
Great britain or any other foreign pow
or at time when the treasury of the
United states is, by his own admission,
on the verge of bankruptcy, no matter
what the cause
The present administration has urged
that the raising of an adequate revenue
must 20 before any action on intcrna-
tonal questions. The case does not adj.
init Of argument. But the administra.
ton is equally right in urging that the
raising OF an adequate revenue must 90
before any action on the currency ques-
ton. There must he, first of all. the
entire security which ample resources
in the treasury will give Not one hour
sooner can financial changes be con
sidered which in their very nature
might disturb the business of the whole
country and the revenue of the treas
TRY. 1t is not venturcsomc to predict
that the president will wait some time
before he Invites any such disturbance.
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