The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1895. 9 o that already outstanding, | treasury obi 000. which wou vyor Py proyosed to b a | confidently expect to see or otizers 10 be organ- ation mpon which its gold could be Withdrawn, but so increased the fear of an over- Whelming lood of siiver anda forced descent to silver pavments that ev. e repeal of these laws did not entirely cure the evils of their existence. sclves of e proposed encourage: are the evilg of 3 and prompily fill any “urreney needed." T | OPPOSES FREE COINAGE. that provisions of TR reg . ol bunks which | Objections to Mints Being Opened to i he suppression of White Metal. the people in : P e, | While 1 have endeavored to muke a_viain state- s. | ment of the disordered condition of our currenc | 8nd the present dangers menaci and to g h le stently had in mind the countrymen, whose sincerity h loca- | I do not doubt, insist that the cure for the ills now rising of National * adapting of banks in | Cial systen ng banks of | fAct that many of m es in ¢ so regulated and | threatenir be found in the single and conservative | simple remed; of sil They be | contend that dur mints at_once thrown - open to ihe free, unlimi dent_coin- s a0 rst glance | age of silv ars of rull ¢ ved from m legal tender quality, regardless tion of any 's that con- | ot nd in full view of the fact that rise, | the he metals which they sugge: longer be the foolish | ¢ 100 cents’ worth of gold ir broad or for specula- | lar at the present standard and ol ns at home, I should | intrinsic worth of s e its natural and normal | \Were there infini s ofthe country and | be adduced for b & the timid of our | cure for us a bim 1siiive imaginations. | of parity an experiment so nc ncellation | that proposed might well stagger those who believe has- | that s imperative condition of sound the | mon roment, no_human _contrivan the “goid dot: ¥ 50 cents in ns than can h action would se v moving on ling ¢l and hazardous as 1oincluding | or act of legislation has ever been able to bold the )00 in stan- | two m er in free comage at a ratio ap- nsideration | preciab nt from that which is established ® be con- | in the markets of the world. | Those who believe thar our independent free | coinage of silver at an artificial ratio of 16to1 ihe coun- | would restore the parity between the metals, and 1should | consequently that by | supported and i danger- | belief and practic teschings of the wisest stat an un- ween the coins, opp eneral probable theory 1o the 14, both in the ps 1 present, and, ze that w fnancially tis far more conclusive, they run counter o o1 to health require | 0ur own actual expericnces. Twice in our earlier | unpleasant remedies, history our lawmakers, in_attempting to establish of ourditticulty it is not easy | & bimetal undertook free coinage upon amount of our revenue re- | A ratio wh ally varied from the actual t. The important on | relaiive v the “two metals not more money received in revenue | than 3 percent. In both cases. notwithstanding kind of money we mainzain and | greater duff; es and cost of transportation than nue in sound financial condi- W exist, coins whose intrinsic worth was 1de he Government’s hold- | undervalued in the ratio gradually and surely dis > soundness of our | appeared from our circulation &nd went to oth our Nati here their real value was better reco; nal credit and | countries = s 1t our gold reserve had never | nized. Acts o 3% weraimpRen ) e b or if no bonds had ever been issuea | equality e I . been no fear and timid- ht Inequulity. Twice in our recent history we to continue gold pay- | have sign led 1o raise by ion’ the enues were not paid in | value c nder an act of Consress, psse 1 ould 100k to our gold receipts asa | in 18 e B R a faining a safe reserve, the amount | than tw d snnually $24,000,000 s would be an influential fac.or in , but un: ately all the circum- ght to this onside rtu; hat migh re entirely lac Government ing in our present predica dit to become 0 gold he Government in allyor practical- ot nor would T beth laws the revenue were increased. The re- ined in vaiue. The the treasury expectation when not £ assage of the ary expenses, and ession does mot in Fing us tokens of jovernment ribute towar ces which ace ord 2 , which is built on gold 1f it 1 said that these notes, if held by the | Of Cong; d 10 obtain gold. for our re. | Per cent The people drew gold na_upon United States > proposition that the e world, on alone old from the people upon | Taise 1o its lost arded in these days with won- | Tatio w . Ou d if this could be done there is nothingte | the fr ge of silver, thus parting with their gold from re- | from actu tive vall be next day or the next hour by the | the complete departure o; ion of our In the real v of all other forms of ed 10 the level of silver tion of notes they received in exchange | tion, and i ry of the Trea: might use such surplus reves to b d in course he could not do i premium. Private holders of gold, veroment, have no parity to main- d not be restrained from making the e when they furnished gold to, ixed sglary ana ev dthe dollar in his hai down 10 a point of A chan would also the momen: the Se y of th old on any terms above par he | bring on \ of credit biish & ral premium upon it which is ba 8 xecosaiant lown the perity batwden gold znd an ¥ S IUALY, Government is pled; niein g entice e v to ur ew und serious comp! at on would be in uncer the consc Teus! ime the premium would not remain | definite expansion (0 m s ! the absurd spectacl ze- | enterprise s older selling gold to t inas ted struggle throngh darkness and 1 by we had parted company and progressive nati desperately and hopel t the stressor modern commerce h a debased and unsuitable the few wea ver alone as Iy warns us n viole nited States his hand immediatel; . ale at a higher premium. hat a large revenue and redundant re- t favorably effect the situation fording an opportunity in the treast T i ing their presentation for gc on to be useful oughi o be rmanent, and and to me m- 1 and e of cheap mc t must result in th 1 integricy and 1 our history has been so d e 0f the traits of true Americanism. edness, whether owing by it or existing between individual contracted with reference to our presen and to decree by act of Congress that Sts shall b able in less valu those tempiation and in- the parties when contracted would ope- fer by the fiat of iuw and without amount of property 1 interests almost inc crien ard and our onal bunks, f treasury ember on has fur- in favor of dpoint. Our dof the cl imetallism now possit in the independent reach of any sin erfal that nation may be as a standard mercial_and b the the that is e na- While lier by 1se, it ent revenue re- | improve the | © 0 our soivency ion, and tain our gold apprehension as d in & sentim: inspi; with such | 4o : x the quesiion whether or not s at < our current 1ses has | 1ts sidein f r nate of our solvency. Of | ume of silver currency aing ana ¢ 4l state of our funds exclusive of | SOmetimes even excee \ amount, both & y immateria! to the fore r | maintain standing a depre sic value of silve n a standard of r monetary The His interest could only be paid in | ciation ¢ y concern was our ability to keep | _There i t kind of money. value and & currenc ! 28 yearand a half be. | Stendard must necessariiy be fixed and cer ain. ssued to replenish the | CUITENCY may be in di e forms and of vari- S ars TABa et Dalancs Thith e | ous ki No silver standard country has a gold B iy excinsive. of snch Teserve, of less - urrency in circulation, but an enlightened and 000,000, but the gold reserve amounted bk ;l,"'f = R -"‘x;;r;v{h‘tr«cm botn ,000, which was the quieting feature | 50! silve: enc d circulating 14,000,000, which was the duiciing feature | mjedium by keeping the standard stable and ail apidly to fall that fright supervened and our | OLIET CUTT2ncy ai par with it Such a system and e e rmed for aale out | such a_standard aiso give free scope for the use Preseed for payment, 1n | #nd expsusionof safe and conservatve credit, so tencive atapments of gold” anq | Indispensadle to broad and growing commercial o Fp e L il ons, asd 5o well substituted for the actual S i - | use of money and fright Aming o P - it a fixed and stable standard Is maintaine upon the siate of our funds, exclusive of to mor such us the magnitude and safety of our comme became also immaterial tothem and they, ctions and b he use of , drew gold from the treasury for hOArding | money iself is conven minimized. Every contingencies. This 1 plainly shown | doliar of fixed and stab lue has through e large increase in the proportion of gold | tpe of confident c: an astonish- cn was retained by our own peo) n y of multiplying i in finan nd threatening incidents —prozre very unstable and fluciuating dollar fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, - 5,000,000 in gold was withdrawn from the out277,000.000 was sent_abroad, i - fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, 7,000,000 was drawn out. of which oni basis of credit, and in its use begets gam- ng speculation and undermines the foundatio of honest enterprise. 1 have ventured to expre myself on this subject with earnestness and plai ness of speech, because I cannot rid myself of the bii at £86,000,000 was shipped, leaving the 1 bellef that there lurks in the proposition for balance of such withdrawals to be accounted for | the free coinage of silver, so strongly approved by do: hoarding. | and so enthusiastically advocated by & multitude h as the withdrawal of our gold has re- | of my country y from fright. there is nothing ADPAr- | perity and an’ will prevent its COntinuance or recurrence | to wander from tural consequence except such a change | and private integrity. 1 our financial methods as will reassure the | {rust the good faith ened and make the desire for gold lessin- | press this scheme th zeal submitted my thoughts upon this mome en. 4 serions menace to our pros dious temptation of our people alleglunce they owe to publ bec who with ous unless it be in gold, can_ satisfy those whose onl. anxiety 1s to gain gold from the Government stors cannot therefore be safe to rely rcreased venues as a cure f0r our pre - that the SUEKESLIOD Of increaj for the difficulties we ¥ have originated in an intimation of di allegation that the bonds whi S | examine their views Itis | patriotic reason and famiilar experfence and to refrain_from and cannot begging them to re- beliefs in the right, weigh again and n the consequences of such | legislation as their efforts have invited. Even the inct | continued agitation of the subject adds greatly to have been issued | the difficolties of a dangerous financial situation osten: 5 old reserve were | already forced upon us. really to_supply insufficient reveuue. | in concusion | especially entreatthe people’s Nothij be further from the truth. Bonds | representat in Congress who are charged were n gold for the maintenance of | with the responsibility nangurating measures As has been shown the gold thus obtained has been drawn sgain treasury upon United States notes and ¢ notes. “This operation would have been prevented if possil these notes havi passed {0 the 1 they bec: of the ot ury Governme s nothing to | do but to use ying Government ex- P n o¢ our common coun- consider the ills of plight.” 1 have suggested a ent approves. 1 d ress that I am prepared for ihe safety and prosperi: | try to promptiy and etfectivel our critical finar remedy which my however, to assure Cou with it in perfecting any oier measure ) and practical relief, and that [ ith them in_every pairiotic en- to further the interests and guard the wel- of our countrymen, whom in our respective s of duty we have underiaken to serve. GROVER CLEVKLAND, s wh tim At | place: there bes bonds have been issued have deration of the question of pa. ing the exp i the Government with their | Washington, D, C., Executive Mansion, Dec. 2, necessity to consider that | 1895. e e had & e in thetres 1ive of the n the f us amount when the ore than iOPlNlONs OF THE MESSAGE. y, 1895, [ fasica such | 1 $100,000,000., 1t | 0. it reserve, In of bonds was mad r $1%,000,000; in e e, it Statesmen Who Think Cleveland Dodged Many Issues. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.—McCreary (Dem.) of Kentucky, chairman of the Commit- | tee on Foreign Affairs in the last House, said: | “That part on the President’s message which | refers to our foreign reiations is very compre- hensive and interesting. His recommenda- he latte S | tions are particularly important and appro- SbsCuting 1 (he [reatcs U nited States notes | Préate on the Cuban question, the Venezuelan 1 trensury notes for gold increased ai their | boundary line disputes, the Bering Sea claims ount the ‘money which was in the first instance | g0 the Letter preservation of seal life in the e Ty e Dt e | North Pacific and Bering Ses, the protection of chase of silver b Government was passed on | Amerlcan citizens In Turkey, Chinaand Japan, the 14th day of July, 1890, wichdrawals of goid | proper regulations to prevent unfavorable dis- from the treasury upon the notes given in pay- | oot i exports to Europe and ment on such purchases did not tegin until OCto- ””“""‘“"l“ “‘:“““l‘;‘l‘e’ L huapoand ber, 1891, Immed! following that date the | particularly our ca 1 pi withdrawal upon both those notes and United | ucts to Germany and adjacent nations, and the tes notes iucreased very largely and have con- cessi I difyfng the treat. necessity for changing or modifyfng reaty »d 10 such an extent that since the passage of | o 7 t law there has been more than thirteen (imes | 50 8s not to require the United States to act s much gold taken out of the treasury upen | jointly with Germany and England in paying Usited States and treasury notes issaed for silver | oxpences and assisting in the mansgement of purchases than was thus withdrawn during | asratns i Saxica. cleven and u}hnlfiyv-un 1mmt"|’11uwly prllgrgllwl; 0 and after the first day of January, 1879, when | . o - Spects nayinealhiyeroREauiIAd: General Wneeler (Dem.) of Alabama said: “I It is neither unfalr nor unjust to charge a large think the President’s statements regarding the of our present financial perplexities and | foreign policy of the Governwment will meet the | approvai of the people of the United States. ] In the Venezuelun question, the language of 298,072,424 the tec ¥ of the Treasury whatever to issue bonds to in- current ex- se the ordir nses. I cs r of the issue 1 bonds and the 8 0f the wighdrawal of gold. cos ers to the operation of the laws of 1878 and 1590, compelling the purchase of silver by the Goverumenut, which not only furnished a new of other nations and to the | men and economists | able dot- | e I donot dis- | the message shows the firmly avowed determ- ination of the United States to adhere to the Monroe doctrine in its strictest sense.” Gener- al Wheeler cannot assent at all to Mr. Cleve- land’s financial recommendations. | Representative Livingston (Dem.) of Georgia said: I approve most emphaticeiiy what the President said on Venezuela. He has gone as far perhaps in_the Cuban matter as interna- tional law will permit. Congress can now take the matter up. I do not approve the financial expressions.”” Dingley (R.) of Maine said: “The most aston- ishing feature of the message was the fact that it entirely omitted to inform Congress whether there was or was not a necessity of providing more revenue. The President’s reference to the protective policy under which the country prospered so signally from 1861 to 1893 as one ‘designed for the protection and benefit of favored classes at the expense of the great mass of our countrymen’ and as one ‘inefficient for the purpose of revenue,’ is a singular disre- gard of the fact that during the time in which this policy was enforced revenue was always in excess of peace expenditures and the masses of the people of the country were never before so prosperous. The effort of the President to divert attention from the real causes of the financial stress of the Government by charging the responsibility on the presence of the green- back in our currency will not prove a success.” Walker (R.) of Massachusetts said: “I regret exceedingly that the President felt called upon to repeat the statements that protection is for the benefit of a favored class and at the ex- pense of the great mass of the people; that it is nsufficient for revenue; that it impedes our entrance to foreign markets, curtails our foreign trade and that free trade alone can build up our country and develop our in- dustries. These propositions are disputed by every acknowledged fact revealed by tne various censuses of this and every other civil- ized country, not excepting Great Britain.” Dalzell (R.) of Pennsylvania said: *So far as the message refers to foreign affairs it may be said to be colorl That part of it is simply | & recital of facts and contains nothing worthy | of note. The most remarkable thing aboutgdt | is the labored attempts 1o make the people be- lieve that the miserable tariff policy of the present administration is*not responsible for our present ills. With the revenues every month produciug & deficit the President’s ignoring the fact and indulging in theories as 10 financial fegislation is suggestive of Nero's fiddling while Rome was burning. | Washington (D.) of Tennessee said: “The message is characterized by the usual vigor and clearness with which Mr. Cleveland han- dles all questions. The forcign policy indi- cated is patriotic, American and_in tune with the Monroe doctrine, His treatment of the financial question is clear and convineing.’” Bell (Pop.) of Colorado said: ‘“Many of the general recommendations will meet public ap- proval. Immgration should be restricted to & very narrow limit and Americanism worked into all of our institutions. His financial rec- vate our difficulties quite as much as did the | repeal of the Sherman act at his request.”” Johnson (R.) of Indiana said: “The message, sofar as it relates to the Cuban, Venezuelan and other foreign questions, isa mere narrative of events. Concerning domestic affairs itis a abored effort to fasten the responsibility for all our business and financial difficulties on the Republican party. In this respect it isa sortof protest against the verdict of the peo- ple rendered at the polls. It is gratifying to notice that there is no recommendation for State banks of issue_in the message and that the remonetization of silver at the present ra- tio is deprecated.” Newlands (Silverite) of Nevada: land, in his message, indulges in the usual fal- lacy of gold standard money, -that gold is a | fixed and immutable standard of value. He | measures gold by itself, and_concludes that it does not change in valte. The fact is that gold measured by the prices of other products has | constantly increased and js still increasing in value, as the use of its only competitor, silver, is diminished. The sole cause of the prevail- ing depression is the low price of products and There is but one way to cure and that is to take away a d value of gold by re- competitor.” measures them. this fall in price portion of the increas storing silver, its onl Joseph G. Cannon (R.) of Illinois: “Under the coustitution the President is commanded to give to Congress information of the state of the Union, but_in his_message to-day he is flag- rantly remiss in th duty as to _at least one subject of absorbing interest. He omits all ref and expenditures, actual as to the past fiscal year and estima’ as to the current and next fiscal year. No President, except Mr. Cleve- land, hias in recent_years omitted to adyise Congress in his regular annual message on this important topic. This omission is at this time the more signiticant in view of the distressing facts thatduring the present administration, since March 4, 1893, to December 1, 1893, the expendituresof the Government have exceeded | the receipts by $127,927,254; that the de- ficiency in National revenues for the last fiscal vear amounted to $43,805,422, and up to De- | cember 1, just passed, to ¥17,600,000; that | during his present administration he h creased our bond indebtedness by 400; that the estimated expenditures subm! tied | in the annual book of estimates for 1897 show &an increase over the estimates for 1896 of more than $10,500,000, and neerly £21,000,000 over | the eppropriations made by the 'last Congress | | for the current year. The message is most un- satisfactory also in its references toour foreign relations and commerce. Our cattle and other { food products are absolutely excluded from | the marke | tries, while our home markets are wide open | to their products—which comes by the repeal { of our late reciprovity provisionsand by the enactment of the Wilson-Brice law. From the | tenor of the whole message it is patent that in his judgment no legislation increasing the | reve is needed or would receive hisap- proval. It is clear, therefore, that there is | nothing possible through legislation or admin- | istration that W cure our ilis during his Quigg (R.) of New York said: “Mr. Cleve- land is a bad doctor. His patient has the con- sumption. He has diagnosed for the malaria, | and he prescribes merely for & boil on the back of the neck. His remedy would not cure the trouble for which he offers it, and that is not | the real trouble at all. What he says about | the country’s finances is answered by the sim- ple fact, 5o justified in everybod that when a4 man's income exceeds his expend- itures he is all right, and when his expendi- tures exceed his income he is all wrong. This rale is universal and inexorable. The green- | backs are & form of public debt. We have had | them for many years, and Mr. Cleveland con- | fesses that until he and his party came into power they nevercaused the slightest trouble; but now he proposes to hold them responsibla | forall the ilis which Le and his party have gen- | erated. He starts the furnace, gets the house | 100 hot to live in, and then, instead of puiting out the fire, he swears a. the thermometer.” Bowers (R.) of California said: “The very first paragraph of the message following the | introduction sounds the keynote to the whols | message and is & specimen of adamantine | cheek. He says, “It is pleasing to note that | efforts to eniarge exchange of trade are appre- cinted by the Argeutine Republic, which recog- nized the value of a large market opened to | free importation of its wools under our tariff act and nhas aamitted certain ot our products at reduced duties’ He is carcful not to state what products or at what reduc. tions. He did not care. He counla show | no reciprocal benefit to the United States, | Pleasea he is at the destruction of one of the greatest industries of this country and the distress it has brought upon its people, and is pleased that foreign nations have bene. fited _thereby. The contemptible foreign policy, which bas made every true American { ashamed, is well illusirated in the message | where it refers to Hawaif and the Waller case. | It ‘insisted’ in the case of little Hawaii, but | ‘requested’ of great France—sends Hawaiian | Minister home, but is delighted that France | proposed some time to arbitrate. Two vears | azo he was convinced that the Sherman law was the cause of all our trouble. Its re,eal proved him a false prophet. Now he is con- vinced that the only practical remedy for our troubles will be found in the retirement of greenbacks and the issue of more bonds.” Senator Perkins said: ‘It reads beantifully. The style is fine, but like confectionery, it tickles the palate, but does not satisfy hunger for something more substantial. His financial discussion does not offer consolation to any one but to bankers, who are promised another bond issue. He offefs congratulation to his country- men that the Argentine Republic is prosp. ing becanse its wool is allowed Lo compete with the products of our own farmers, and this opening paragraph of his message will doubi- less be read with interest by our California sheep-raisers. Senator White thinks the message an able document in its ienenl aspect, and atthe same time confesses that he has not read it very carefully, and therefore cannot say whether he is willing to adopt Mr. Cleveland’s views on all things considered in it. Representative Barham said: ‘It read to me like the yaporings of & very tired man. It lacked ‘ginger'—had no’snap to it. He said not & word about subjects in which we are all deeply and vitally interested. His suggestion of another bond issue is l(mpl{ disgusting and nauseating. His treatment of the subject of our foreign relations was tame indeed.” Hilborn said: “The President seems to think that greenbacks are responsible for our trouble in keeping the gold reserve intact, but we have had greenbacks for many years and have only had Grover for a few years, and we had no difficulty with our gold reserve until he made the trouble himself.” Representative Maguire said: “I have not ommendations, i carried out, would aggra- ( “Mr. Cleve- | property and the high value of gold, which | ence in detail to Governmental receipts | of Germany and adjacent coun- | experience, | read the message in its entirety, but glanced through that part deveted to finances. I think his reasoning is illogical. He points no way out of the difficulty.” Representative McLachlan said: “President Cleveland has failed to preseribe any remedy for our deplorable financial ills. In spite of the disastrous results of the Wilson bill he still favors free trade. He only voices the senti- ment of his party, however, and the only relief we can expect must come. from Republicans.” Grove Johnson says: “The message was tire- some. The President faiied to discuss Ha- waiian annexation, the Nicaraguan canal pro- ject and many other questions of living inter- est to our people. His treatment of the sub- ject of foreign relations was simply & rehash of old news. His recommendation to retire green- ‘backs will be antagonized not only by the Re- publican party, but by munf' Democrats. Did you notice that when the clerk finished read- ing the message in the House to-day that only four or five Kepresentatives in the hall ap- plauded him? It was the coldest frost I ever x‘sfl_\\n Even his own party were disgusted with him.’” Ex-Speaker Crisp's comments were: ‘I heard with some surprise and great regret that part ot the message relating 10 our finances, relief is needed no one doubts. That it can be found in the direction indicated in the mes- sage I don't believe. The President makes as strong an argument as can be made in favor of the single gold standard, but I don’t think he fairly states the case, He assumes thronghout his message that obligations are payable in gzm‘ There is no law on the statute- oks justifying this assumption. All bonds, treasury notes and other obligations of the United States are payable in coiu—that is, gold and silver of the present standard of weight and fineness—and if the treasury would exer- cise the option which. the law and contracts give of paying in those metals most convenient to it our difficulties would be less. I am op- posed to the retirement of the greenbacks and Sherman notes, because it would ruinously contract our curren Neither can I approve the propositions recommended to enlarge the privileges of the National banks. 1 have no doubt the President honestly believes he is right, and I know I as honesily believe he is wrong.” Hopkgns (R.) of lllinois, & member of the last Committee on Ways and Means, said ““The message ignores the true cause of the un. numbered woes thet have been brought upon the people of the country,and thatis the re- peal of a tariff which gave enough revenue to pay all the running cxpenses of the Govern- ment and left a surpius in the treasury, and in lieu of that placed upon the statute-books of the country the Gorman-Wilson bill that has never given revenue sutficient to meet the run- ning expenses_of the Government.” i Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio said: “The message, so far as it deals in details of our foreign rela- | tions, is very interesting and instructive. But when he refers to the great benefits our new { tarift act hasgiven to the sheepmen of the Argentine country he seems to be rejoicing over the ruin of more than a million sheep raised in our country, and he forgets that side by side with cheapef wool comes the product of foreign looms striking deadly blows at the labor of a host of American workers.” Patterson (D.) of Tennessee said: “The mes- sage isan exceedingly able state paper. It is | statesmanlike and ~courageous throughout. | His party for a time has gone down in defeat, but Mr. Cleveland remains in the unshaken confidence of the American people.” Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island said: “In the face of a rapidly growing deficit the message suggests no method for providing an increase in revenue. The President’s recommendation for the retirement oi the greenbacks will avail nothing, becaase the members of his party in the Senate and a large majority of the Senate | are committed to a policy directly antagonistic to Mr. Cleyeland’s views. A Dbill to retire these notes could not be reported from the Finance Committee s at present constituted, nor from any commitiee, a8 I believe, that will | be formed in the Senate. The portion of the | message 10 be commended is the reference to | Venezuelun matters.” Hansbrough (R.) of North Dakota said: ‘‘It exhibits a complete abandonment of the mes- sage of 1887, and opeus the way to further gold-bond issues as a means of defraying the expenses of the Government.” i Smith (D.) of New Jersey said: “I was very | much gratified at the financial recommenda- | tions contained in the document.” | Palmer (D.) of Illinois sald: “I indorse the ! 1den of retiring the greenbacks as a general proposition, but I nave not investigated the FiFseheme as unfolded in the message.” Sockrell ‘Dem.) of Miss pn(;grcl o the retizemnent of the greenbacks and transferring to the National banks | ’pol\'er of controlling the currency of this | country.” s Allison (Rep.) of Towa says: “The message ouri said: “I am op- That | the sole | seems to be incomplete and is lacking in sug- gestions pertinent at this time. With our rev- enues woefully short of the requirements there is not one word about increasing those revenues.” Voorhees (Dem.) of Indiana, chairman of the Committee on Finance, said: *‘The message is repnfimm to everything that I have held to on the financial subject through hife, nnd’f,or one I will not vote to repeat the greenbacks.’ Brice (D.) of Ohiosaid: “Mr. Cleveland’s only| object was perhaps to sgitate the subject of the retirement of the greenbacks in this chamber.” Gray (D.) of Delaware said: “I have not been able to read the message yet and I heard it but imperfectly, but such parts as I did hear strike me as being strong, forceful and persuasive. | His suggestions that we should retize the greenbacks is & good one,and I heartily in- dorse it. The message &s a whole makes a great document, and I am sure it will be ap- | proved by the mass of the people.” Tillmen (Pop.) of South Carolina said: I | see nothing in the message that indicates | statesmanship or a regard for the general wel- fare of the people. The question that suggests | itself to my mind is, If he retires the green- | backs what will be substituted therefor as cur- | | rency? Ii National bank notes are to be issued | upou the bonds issued to retire the green- backs, why not save the interest that will ac- crue upon these bonds? The policy of Mr. Cleveland is surely leading to plutocracy in- stead of democracy.” Vilas_(Dem.) of Wisconsin said: “I will cheerfully support him in his endeavor to Pave the greenbacks retired. The message is & sound and patriotic document and_deserves | the favorable consideration of the whole peo- ples Peffer (Pop.) of Kansas said: ‘‘The message | makes it plain that the cause of the money- changers vs. the people must be tried by a jury of the people.” | Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska said: “What other | message than this could have been expected | from Grover Cleveland?” Teller (R.) of Colorado said fr. Cleveland | assumes a supercilious tone in speaking oi the | ariff and silver question and the conditions that existed heretofore. We had the purchase | of silver bullion established for several years | | and we had the McKinley tariff act, and yet | | the country never enjoyed a better season of prosperity than under these two measures. The President says the tarifft has destroyed our exports, and yet we never had such e ports as we enjoyed under the McKinley tarift; | they were infinitely larger than under the present Democratic measure. The present law is not, of course, along Democratic lines, but it | was the best they could get. It was so bad in Mr. Cleveland’s eyes that he. could not sign it; it was unsatisfactory to him because it did not | approach more nearly to free trade. The mes- | sage was quite ordinary and msade no impres- sion upon the Senate.” s COMMENT OF THE PRESS. Some Democratic Journals Join in the General Disgust. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 3.—Speaking of the President’s message the Journal (R.) will say to-morrow: In a patronizing, now-my-chil- dren sort of way the President of the United | States presumes, through a superabundance of words and specious phrases, to instruct Con- gress as to its duty. He is mildly compassion- | ate with the misguided millions who don’t believe as he believes, and has no hesitancy in saying that it they will just listen to him they | will all change their minds. He entirely ig- | nores questions of greatest moment in the in- | | ternal ‘affairs of the Nation, not deigning to | | give even one small word to matters that are | | occupying the minds of millions of our citi- | | zens, and delivers a stump oration that is tire- | | some in its verbosity and insulting in its pat- | ronizing st | le. The Times (D.) will say: “When President Cleveland wrote his famous tariff-reform mes- | | sage to Congress, in 1887, it sounded as clear | as a bugle note all' over the civilized world, | and, although at first voted down by the | people, two years later, uvon reflection, his ve brave words were accepted as truths, and two years later still were enacted as law by an crwhelming majority of the American | | people. So it must and surely will be with re- | | gard to the President's message of yesterday. | Discarding all surplusage, Mr. Cleveland ad- | dresses himself to two great questions—the money issue and our foreign relations. In the | matter of finance the President rapidly re- views the condition of affuirs, and bravely as- sumes the responsibility for the gold-standard policy to which his administration has com® mitted the Nation. The message is a model of | | pure and vigorous Euglish, withou*, however, | the slightest attempt at the graces of the rhetorician. | OMAHA, NEBR., Dec. 3.—The World-Herald | | hi he President’s message to-morrow will sa; The President and his followers never intimated the necessity of the Tetirement of greenbacks when they secured the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law, and they don’t now suggest the retirement of silver when they urge the retirement of legal tender notes, but it is all a part of the same . It is the Wall-street idea and it is so ideons that even the President has not the courage to disclose it all at onte. The Presi- dent’s mad effort to hasten the universal gold standard will really of bimetallism by attracting tention to the only reasonable rem- edy—the immediate restoration of the gold and silver coinage of the constitution. In the proposition to retire the greenbacks Mr. Cleveland will not have the aid of the Repub- lican leaders as he had in the repeal of the rchasing clause of the Sherman law. The (D.) commenting on stroy themselves as Mr. Cleveland has destroyed seif. The Bee (R.) will say: This third annual message of President Cleveland will not rank among great state papers. Itis not,in- deed, np to his own best stanaard, and it will exert little influence upon public opinion. It conveys the impression of the perfunctory work 6f a man who did_not like the task, not because there is lack of quantity, but for the reason that the guality is notof & very high order. Certainly those friends of Mr. Cleve- land who think he ought to be nominated next year as the only available Democrat in the country will find little in the message to in- ‘lelll;e their interest or enthusiasm in his be- alf. apers to-morrow will comment on the Presi- ent’s message as f0llows: Times-Herald (Ind.): In itsbroad and com- prehensive grasp of the questions dealt with the message is one of the strongest state papers that Mr. Cleveland has ever written. In re- spect 1o the Venezuelan question the President shows the vigorof the administration’s foreign policy. Only those who hoped that the Presi- dent would not rise to the “height of this great argument” and sustain in all its broaduess the modern construction of the Monroe doc- trine will be disappointed in his utterances. The country at large will receive them with acclaim. Inter Ocean (Rep): The remarkable thing about the first half of the message is its tame- ness and utter lack of sympathy with litile Venezuela in its controversy with the big bully, John Bull, or with Cuba in its efforts to throw off the yoke of despotism. The Monroe doctrine is stated in a very W and when it comes to poor Cuba, not the slightest touch of the chord of sympathy comes from him. There is nothing new in the finan- motest chance that any bill will pass Congress either against greenbacks or for free siiver. The President merely cudgels the air imma- terially. The Record (Ind.): The financial clauses of the message will repay reading as furnishing one of the best and most succinet expositions of the subject yet published. They have weight with the President as well as with the legislators and for this reason it is not likely that Congress will be compelled to consider the President’s counsels. The Tribune (R.): The President in his mes- sage recognizes that the sympathies of the American people are with the Cuban insur- gents. They have nobly earned recognition as men earrying on war, but the President is silemn w let Congress speak. The Presi- dent is clear in general terms on the point that it is the duty of the Nation and of the ad- ministration to uphold the various kinds of curreney to a parity with gold, but is not sufficiently explicit in reference to the flood of little-more-than-half-worth silver money that has been omitted at the demand of cheap- money men. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 3.—The Republic (D.) will say: The most satisfactory passage in the document is that touching upon the Venezuela affair. The financial plans set forth are re- pugnant to many Democrats. Asa whole the message is a model exposition of the topics treated. The Globe-Democrat (R.): There is a con- treatment of foreign concerns and nothing brilliant or vigorous. message is full of spirit and deserves careful reading. The President’s plan for getting rid W ¥ YORK, N. Y., Dec. 3.—The leading New York papers comment on the President’s mes- sage as follows: The Tribune: President Cleveland’s message is unique #s a revelation of character. NO President has ever delivered another message affronting so large a share of the people. Its treatment of foreign questions will affront very many of his own party; its treatment of the silver question will offend more than two-thirds of that party: its pretense that the sent whisky and sugar tariff which he denounced as “perfidy and dishonor,” is in principle based on denial of the right of governments to protect industries wilk offend every sincere advocate of that cause; and its demand for the substitation of bonds for aid the cause | ublic at- | u fiepnblicau leaders will be too shrewd to de- | CHICAGO, T1.1., Dec, 3.—The Chicago mews- | mild and halting | cial part of the message, nor is there the re- | spicuous absence of “jingo’” in the President’s | The financial part of the | of greenbacks and Sherman notes is simple and | T | greenbacks will affront mnnr Democrats; | while in scarcely any respect will the message | satisfy the great majority who elected more | then two-thirds of the present House of Rep- resentatives. “ The Times: The President recognizes that the nltimate causes of our difficulties are re- | mote—that they spring from a mistaken policy | for which each’ party is more or less resporn- | sible, and that this system has so long been in | existence, has so far affected the opinions and | habits of the great body of the people, that its reform requires the hearty co-operation of the clear-headed and right-minded men in public life, without regard to party. The Sun: There are iwo passages in Mr. | Cleveland’s message which deserve unqnal | fied consideration. The first is his announce- | ment that England has been notified regarding | her dispute with Venezuela that the present | administration adheres to the Monroe doc- | trine; that the traditional policy of the United | States is firmly opposed to any forcible in- | erease of the territorial possessions of any Eu- ropean power on this continent, and that the policy embodied in the Monroe doctrine is night and sound and will be maintained. S g L g :SCORED BY THE ENGLISH. Cleveland’s Message Does Not Even Please London Papers. LONDON, Ex6G., Dec. 3.—The Daily News, | commenting on President Cleveland’s message | to Congress, will to-morrow sa: “A worse | tinancial muddle then Mr. Cleveland stated would be difficult to conceive, if such is the | Tesult of tampering with the currency for the supposed relief of powerful interests. Itis ‘worth the attention of our currency doctors.” The News will refer to the Venezuela dispute ; 8s a matter in which the United States is not | directly concerned. The principle of arbitra- | tion is invaluable, but its friends should be- ware of straining it unduly. The comparative | weakness of Venezuela does not give that | country exceptional rights. Arbitration has | nothing to do with the relative strength of the | parties. The President’s message is silent re- garding the outrage on the British Guiana olicy. It is peither dignified nor politic for Washington to take up the quarrels for South | American communities which do not observe | the usages of civilized nations. The United States will find out some day that this sort of atronage involves corresponding respon 1 gility, and will not like it at all. With regard to the President’s reference to | Armenta the paper will say: It should be | thought that when American missionaries are | robbed and evieted with the connivance and complicity of the Sultan an American warship would be & better agent than the pow who are all protocols and no poliey. The lives of | Americans in Asia Minor cannot be considered | safe. It would go hard with Mr. Cleveland if | be allowed them to perish. | The Standard will say: The maintenance of friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States is of such supreme import- ance fhat we cannot but regret the tone in | which President Cleveland alluded to the dis- | pute with Venezuela. If we may judge the | tone ind substance of the dispatch addressed | to Embassador Bayard in July from the para- | phrase communicated to Congress, we are not in the least surprised that no answer has vet | been received. We undertake to predict that | when the answer reaches the White House it will furnish the President with much matter | for serious reflection. We have far too much | confidence in the strength and generosity of American character to believe for a moment that the President will be sustained in his position by the better order of transatlantic of the sentiment. Referring to the Bering Sea paragraph message the Standard will say: Mr. Cleve- land hss still to urge upon & refractory Con- gress decency and justice in complying with | this plain condition of an honest award. Upon | the matter of currency reform the President | writes lucidly and emphatically, as usual, but | we are not much impressed by the remedy he proposes. Tie Morning Post will say: Regarding Samoa and Venezuela the message appears to be | framed on lines that Senator Chandler might approve. The President appears to assume that England must be wrong because she is stronger than Venezuela. The Chronicle will say: The President's | reference to Armenia is practically an invita- | tion to the powers to coerce the Sultan, and | being backed up by the sending of a cruiser, | it must be regarded as a definite adherence of | the United States to the European concert. Few honest critics can say anything against the references to Venezuela. We agree with the rresident that the matter is eminently suited for impartial arbitration. The Times will say: The failure of Congress to embody Mr. Cleveland’s proposed financial measures in legislation will undoubtedly give asevere shock to business interests. We shall be greatly surprised it the plan is not welcomed in the great commercial centers of the United States, if Mr. Cleveland is right, as he is re- lglm‘ued as being by dispassionate observers ere. | | | | | | | DOCTOR SWE 737 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Opposite Examiner Office. | 7T HMAS BEEN SAID OVER AND OVER | 4 again tnat the poet “is born—not made,” | or, s the Latin is, “Poeta nascitur, non fit,” | but realiy the rule applies to nearly all of the arts ana seiences, if not to the world at large. | One of the most conspictious instances that we | know of is that of the eminent specialist, Dr. weany. It issafe to affirm that there are few people indeed on this slope who have not | heard of this noted savant, whose whole life | has been spent in the holy cause of “health | for the masses.” With Dr. Sweany it is not a errand of mercy. He feels that he has been | which it is the fortune of but few medical men to enjoy, but at the same time it must be re- membered that he has fully profited by them all. To enumerate the various schools of medi: cine and surgery in which he has been a well- known student, assistant or professor would be t0o much 1ike a medical directory of the United States and Europe, for, truth to tell, Dr. Sweany | has songht knowledge wherever it could be found, and graven on the records of many an eminent European hospital is the name of F. L. Sweany, M.D., as consulting physician | been giving to the people of this slope the | benefit of all his research, and to that fact many a man can trace his perfect health. Dr. Sweany’s practice here has brought to the weak strength; to the chronic sufferer relief; to diseased women and children health; to erring men and youths hope; and to all who ! have honestly sought his advice and followed 1t a perfect cnre. And the people as a whole have stood up and praised him. Thousands upon thousands have willingly testified—not only by letter but orally—to his ability and matchless skill, and day by day he adds fresh laurels to a brow already crowned with the victor's wreath. His patients come from all grades of society. In his reception-rooms the merchant prince sits side by side with the me- chanie, and that honest fellow often ““touches elbows” with a day laborer. None are too high and none too lowly to receive the attention of this clever man, and no matter what the dis- ease may be, to each and all he brings the skill and learning of a life’s work spent in study. To the poor Dr, Sweany extends a helping hand in a noble way, for on Friday afternoons they are treated free at his offices. Of course it would be manifestly impossible to treat all the poor who might apply by letter, for the doctor has patients in almost every State in the Union, and indeed some in foreign countries, but the resident population has had to thank him for many & noble act—many a generous deed. Dr. Sweany is not only a wonderfully clever man; he is a deservedly respected one, t00. On that the whole slope is agreed, labor to do good—it is simply ana purely an | | particularly blest in having had opportunities | | and surgedn. But of late years Dr. Sweany has | \\,\5‘\ DOGTOR SWE E_ARE ALL 80 HIGHLY STRUNG UP that it is not surprising to find prevalent among us nervous debility. It is often sup- posed that this terrible disease—for that is what it is in its effects—is invariably the result of indiscretions in youth and early manhood, but that is by no means so. It is true that | these things are respongible for most of it, but | there ere other things which contribute their share. Anxiety and secret \\'Orri; bring on a state which 1s as bad as any of those horrible conditions which come “from early follies. | You cannot sleep, yon fume and fret over trifles, your back is weak and_you are utterly unfit 1o do vour regular day's work. Do you know what that ¢l means? It means life to vou! Nothing less! That is & hard statement for you to believe? Don’t be foolish. More harm will come to you if you neglect these symptoms; and they are nof all by a long way. To-day, for a change, look at yourself in the glass.” Are your lips pale? Are your eyes lightly yellow where they should be white? what the people who try to be funny in a theater call ‘‘the blues,” or is your memory feiling? 1f you are suffering from any of these things just try and remember what early fol- lies you may have been fiuflly of, and if you re certain that you are innocent of all you v make up your mind that you have been straining your nervous system in some other way. Perhaps in WOirying Over crops; per- | haps about a little matter of affection, and pos- s!b"y about some speculation. But no matter what the cause, the result is bound to be as bad in each case, And the longer you let matters run the worse they are going to be. Do you know that? Do vou know that half the éviis that humanity is'heir to are directly due to that stupid practice of putting off till to-morrow what you could and should do to- day? I1fyoudon’t know this you should learn it, and lcarn it thoroughly, for the penalty of not secking PROPER HELP In due season is far more serious than you may think. Thousands upon thousands of people have come to Dr.Sweany who had noidea as to where they were drifting until the great specialist told them, and it is well known that he has saved many & man from the horror of a suieide’s grave by his help and advice. “A pound of prevention isworth a ton of cure” may be a very old saying, but is none the less true, and if you see the slightest touch of any of these symptoms be warned in time and seek advice where you know that you will get it, n“dlf" what is worth untold gold— HEALTH. WATCH THESE. Some people pay noattention to the smallills of life, but that 18 as stupid as to neglect the greater ills. Catarrh, for instance. That an- noying disease often leads to severe nervous derangement. In its treatment Dr. Sweany has been uniformly successful, and if you have a dry, hacking cough; if you hawk and spit in txe morning; if you find a difficulty in breathing; if your hearing is affected at all; if you have a ‘dull pain in your head, or a nervous headache you should seek relief at DOCTOR SWEANY NEW TO-DAY. Are they a little bit bloodshot? Have you got | Y HE CLIMATE OF CALIFORNIA IS PAR- ticulariy prolific in produeing that most an- | noying of all diseases, nasal catarrh, and pat- ent remedies by the score—aye, by the hun- dreds, and even by the thousand—have been introduced for its cure. Butcompetent special- ists like Dr. Sweany know that the disease is not local—it is constitutional. If you think that you are in the slightest way aflicted with it you should at once apply for relief. It is like a snowdrift—it begins almost invisibly, but when it has once got 2 good hold there is going to be quite a good deal of bother in get- | ting rid of it. A hard cough is one of the first | signs, and then comes constipatiou, a bad taste in the mouth _in the morning, a desire to expectorate every few moments, and a breath to which that of the coyote even is preferable. There is no disease which is more harmful in its various ways. People get to dislike to be in your company and avoid you as they do théir creditors, and, worse than all, it is the certain forerunner of some of the most fatal ailments that are known to medical science. The mucus drops into the stomach ana destroys the hining of that organ and impairs first and then entirely destroys digestion. Then the lungs get affected and consumption often fol- lows, and as a fruitful source of the entire breaking down of the nervous system it has no equal. Dr. Sweany takes each case and treats it constitutionally. What suits one case does not of necessity cure another, and it is in this way that he lias been able to trace to its original cause—namely, cnm-rh»m.n?v of the difficult and dangerous cases which his ability and skill have conquered and cured. The same advice may be given here as in the mervous troubles—you cannot apply for heip too soon, but don’t jorget that it is quite easy to be too late. If you trifle with nature too long she will resent it. TO WOMEN. Dr. 8weany’s help and assistance has at all times proved to be of the utmost value. No matter whether they were in the very bud of voung womanhood, whether they were blush: ing their first roses as happy or unhappy mothers, whether they were in the prime of matronly womanhood, or whether they were nearing the change oi life—in each and every instance this eminent specialist’s advice has been of untold value. Painful menstruation | leucorrheea, displacement of the womb, and ali the distressing ailments peculiar to the weaker sex, have been made a special study of by Dr. Sweany, and in each and every case he takes peculiar interest. And he is en{)ecm!ly sue- cessful in these, and indeed all diseases of women. WATCH THESE. Are you ashamed to confess if you are a young man thatyou have a disease of a private neture? Have you tried some patent remedy for it and failed to effect a cure? Are you neglecting and endangerin? your health” b hoping that time alone will éffect a cure? It so stop and consider for a moment. In Dr. Sweauy you have a friend in whom you may confide with the uimost safety. Your little troubles will be kept as sacredly confidential as though they were the country’s secrets, and once. There is infinite danger in delay. Don’t risk it. F. L. SWEANY, M. D. 737 Market Street, S. F. OPPOSITE EXAM ! you can get a speedy and a sure cure. But don’ waste time. F. L. SWEANY, M. D. 737 Market Street, S. F. INER OFFICE. W 737 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Opposite Examiner Office, )ROBABLY OF ALL THE DISEASES WHICH are most to be dreaded on account of the fearful consequences that ensue from them is syphilis, That is the hard and harsh name by which it is known, and it hasstruck terror into many & brave heart. 'But there was never a disease yet which baffled the skill of all the medical world for all time, and now it may be stated asan accepted fact that if any case of this nature is taken to a COMPETENT SPECIALIST in time it may be cured without the slightest shadow of a doubt. But here is where the trouble comes in. There are any number of people who will pretend that they can effect a cure, but the man who has such a disease as this should weigh the thing very carefully in his mind before accepting the advice of any of these so-called doctors. There is no danger ‘when consulting an experienced man such as Dr. Sweany is. In all the very best hospitals ot this country and Europe he nas made the study of this disease one of the prime objects of his life, and it is not too much to say that he has thoronghly mastered it. With the utmost con- fidence a man can now go to his offices (737 Market street, just opposite ‘“The Examiner office), and no matter how badly he may have neglected himself, no matter what form the disease may have taken, no matter how many men may have said that the case was incurable, no matter now weary and wretched he feels, he may go and concult Dr. Sweany and come away on the road to recovery. If you cannot come to San Francisco you can write all about your troubles, and you may be certain that your letter will receive the same consideration as though you had come in person, and no one ‘except Dr. Sweany himself will ever know that you have written. Your case will be thor- oughly studied and remedies will be forwarded to you in just exactly the same way &8 yvou could have got them in this city. And this method of treating country patients has been found to be excellent in its good results. Bad blood, theresult, possibly, of syphilis in parents or grandparents, often produces skin diseases such as eczema, blotches, scaly eruptions, swollen glands and so forth, and in each and all of these cases, as well as in all other consti- tutional troubles, the sufferer will find in Dr. Sweany a friend in need and one who will prove to be a friend indeed. His success in all kidney and bladder troubles has been most marked, and impotency, varicocele, hydrocele tand scrofula are likewise special features o his practice, while instances of premature de- cay have been treated with unvarying success. It is no idle boast to say that all weaknesses of the sexual organs are more scientifically treated by Dr. Sweany than by any other physician on this coast, for that fact i3 fairly admitted, and he stands at the very head and front of his pro- fession, admittedly without & peer.