Show FINANCIAL WEATHER ALMANAC ALMA-NAC MAKEES There are people in the world who believe the almanac makers regulate the weather and when they desire to know what the weather for tomorrow or next week is roing to be they consult con-sult their almanacs It is quite impos sible for these almanac makers not to I hit it right occasionally during the 365 days of the year and whenever they do strike it that is sufficient for those who believe in them to continue their faith Mr Henry Clews of New York banker may be termed a financial weather almanac maker His almanac is sued l in weekly installments and forecasts the financial outlook with much the same certainty and cocksureness cock-sureness that the patent medicine almanac al-manac man does In his installment I of his almanac issued last Saturday there appeared this financial weather forecast Here in the United States business busi-ness is kept more or less unsettled by the persistent agitation in the senate of the recognition of the independence of the Cubans It is to the last degree unfortunate that the very branch of congress designed to hold in check wild popular vagaries and dangerous outburst out-burst of popular passion should itself become the chief source of such disturbances dis-turbances of public confidence and yet today we witness in that body little else than such perversions of its pacific functions The attempt made by the senate to forcpthe government to intervene in-tervene in Cuba is little short of wicked Its effect can only be to still further unsettle confidence by raising an issue involving the very delicate question of the respective rights of the president and the senate and for no better our nose than to revel in a wild revolt against safe and conservative methods of government The bad effect of thrs legislation is not so much in any expectation ex-pectation that the president will permit per-mit himself to be forced into any abdication abdi-cation of his executive rights as that the highest house of legislation should have become so utterly untrustworthy and dangerous What a country of resources this Is when an absolutely new and distinct cause for the continued unsettled condition con-dition of business can be found and I made to apply eacCi week It proves that we are still a country of unknown and unlimited resources Up to November I I No-vember 3 1S96 the one great cause of the unsettled condition of business was 1 I the free silver propaganda But that cause ceased to operate on that date I while the unsettled unsatisfactory and I unprofitable condition of business has persisted all the while How strange that Financial Weather Almanac Maker Clews should have made the great blunder cf saying that the senate was designed to hold in check wild vagaries and dangerous outburst out-burst of popular passion It was designed de-signed to represent the states as separate I sep-arate and sovereign political bodies The theory of checks is incident to the bicameral system of legislative bodies and applies to one chamber no more than to the other It is altogether probable that when to I morrows installment of Clews Financial Finan-cial Weather Almanac is issued the I I I discussion of the tariff bill in the senate sen-ate will be assigned as the true cause I of the unsettled condition of business |