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Show A WICKED CONGRESS. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND DEPLORES INIQUITY OF EXTRA VAC AN CE. fnalon for lliaablad Veterans. Me Bays, ar th Most Threatening Iniquity of Our Oovernmeiit rh Violoua Tariff Tar-iff Another Danger If Fear. Buffalo, May 13. The Cleveland Democracy, liutlalo's foremost political organization, opened a new club house last evening, with the ex-presidcut as guest and speaker of the occasion. Cleveland responded to thu address of welcome with a speech, delivered with great earnestness and received enthusiastically. enthu-siastically. Mr. Cleveland said, in part: I believe the most threatening figure which today stands iu tee way of the sao-ty of our povernuieul and the liappiuoss of our people is reokleg., p-id wicked xtravaitanceln public expenditure, ex-penditure, Itlstlio most fatal o. all the deadly hr ,od Poi l of a government of perversion. perver-sion. It bides beneath its wiuva a tictrayai of the people's trust, and holds powerless in its fascinating glancs the people's v.111 and conscience, con-science, it brazenly exhibits today a btlllon-doiiareongu-ss. Hut lately a laige surplus remained re-mained In the pe -ple's public treasury after meeting all the expenditures then by no means economical. This condition was presented to the American people as positive pre of that tbe burden of taxation was unjust,. l.ecu.-o unnecessary, un-necessary, utid yet while the popubti- protest was stllf heard the hamy of public extravagance extrava-gance devours the surplus and tinpielently calls upon tie stagariu',' victim to bung still larger supplies within reach of its insatiate appetite. Year- iwo a pension roll 'imouutl'ig to J.'i.ilii0,(jonwus willingly maintained by tho patriotic dtizene. Today public extravagance, decrees that three times tha sum be drawn from the people on tbe pretext that lis expeu-dll expeu-dll lire represents the popular love ot the soldier. sol-dier. , Mr. Cleveland also touched upon the ' increase in the river and harber appropriation appro-priation and spoke of the "baretaced subsidy," let loose as a marauder, which, in company with its vicious tariff partner, bears piltered benefits to Ihe household of favored aellish interests. Let us, as we push on our campaign of education, especially impress upon our countrymen tho lesson which teaches that public extravagance is a deadly thing; that economy is honorable; that virtue and watchfulness of the people is the surest safeguard against abuses abuses in the government and that those who profess to serve their fellow-citi-r.ens in public places must be faithful to their trust. ' |