Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-03
SAYINGS OF GROVER CLEVELAND

president, March 4th, 1885: Your ev- : | cry voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sane } tion, though in different sphere. ex- ercises public trust"
 Another famed saying of Cleveland, Honor lies in honest toil,' has been quoted by thousands of demagogues, who are not aware that it's source was
 the letter in which Cleveland accepted
 the nomination for president, Aug. IS. | 1884.
 In this he wrote: A true American sentiment recognizes the dignity of la
 Dor, and the fact that honor lies in honest toll.
 In another letter to George William
 Curtis. under date of Dec 2sth. of the same year. President Cleveland wrote.
 employing phrase which the country
 was quick to take up: They have
 proved themselves offensive partisans, and interruptions manipulators of local party management.
 Another oft-quoted phrase comes from Cleveland's first annual message, tai of our workingmen.'' The entire Isentence reads: We should also deal with the subject in such manner as to protect the interests of American la lbor, which is the capital of our work lingmen.
 Probably no phrase uttered by the
 same president attained the wild-fire popularity as did that of ,"innocuous ldesuetude", which was used in his
 message of March 1st 1888. The phrase occurs in his expression: Aft Ter existence of nearly twenty years Iof almost innocuous desuetude these f, laws are brought forth.
 In C1eveIand's veto of the Texas seed
 bill, Feb. 18th, 1887. he makes the Istrong assertion: Though the people support the Government. the Govern iment should not support the people. Almost as frequently quoted as his
 innocuous desuetude phrase is that lother pithy statement from his mes-
 sage of 1887: It is a condition which iconfronts us-not a theory.
 pension list the title of "A roll of hon. or,'' when, in his veto of the Depend
 ent Pension Bill, Feb. 11th, 1887, he wrote: I cannot believe that the vast
 peaceful army of Union soldiers who, having resumed their places in the ordinary avocations of life, cherish as sacred the memory of patriotic ser | vice. or who, having been disabled by
 the casualties of war. justly regard the present pension roll, on which appear their names, as roll of honor, desire
 at this time and in the present exig- ency to be confounded with those who, through such bill this, are willing
 to be objects of charity, and to gain a place upon the pension roll through alleged dependence.
 Later, in his veto of Mary Ann IDougherty's pension. July 5th, 1888, he 1 uses the same phrase, when he writes: II have considered the pension list of
 the Republic roll of honor.
 sion employed by President Cleveland was that of The communism Of cap- ital." This creeps out in his annual message of 1888; when he says: Com 4se-vz7 tx.1
 ace to peace and organied government.
 But the commission of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and sefffshness which assiduously undermines the jus tice and integrity of free institutions, IS not less dangerous than the com munism of oppressed poverty and toll, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of misrule
 In an interview in the New York Commercial Advertiser Sept. 18th, 1889, occurs the phrase, Party hon. eSty is party expediency."
 History records the fact that all of President Cieveisnd's original and happy expressions did not win admir- | tive who uttered them. Unwittingly he himself was the 1 cause of catch phrase which has | won quite as lasting a place in Amer ican famed sayings as have any of his | own. Referring to him at the national | convention at Chicago, in 1884, the | chairman. Edward Stuyvesant Bragg. | said: They love him, gentlemen. and | they respect him, net only for himself | for his character, for his integrity and 1 judgment and iron will, but they love | him most for the enemies he has l made.
 It was during the same campaign l that Abram Stevens Hewitt uttered | the aphorisn, Unnecessary taxatioTf is l unjust taxation.
 Four years later, William Cassius | Goodle cleverly coined a name for the | Republican stump speakers, for hold | ing their audiences speIFbound, when | he said, Here comes another of the | Spell bindersi"
 While on this subject, it is interest | ing to recall that it was in speech | made a few miles north of Norwich, at the Fourth of July celebration in | Woodstock in 1889, that C1eveland's | successor, President Benjamin Harri- | son uttered a sentence which was pithy enough to be preserved in the | list of famous sayings, and which is | of interest-in the light of latter-day II events: Tt is not in the power of any II people upon earth to harm us, except II our own people" II