Show MESSAGE abe greater portion of tho president message is devoted to the cuban question and after all tho war talk just pre ceding the fall elections and the reported activity in the navy of the country at that time the mild treatment of the subject and the conciliatory recommendations will come as somewhat of a to the public that would have been more pronounced and carried with it severe denunciation had rot the press of the country for the past few weeks somewhat prepared the public for the lukewarm attitude of the president policy B roundly condemned at the time for its tendency to inaction was one of strength as compared with the attitude outlined by president mckenley while r promising to keep a lital eye on the conflict ready to invoke the power at his command to stop the bloody struggle in case it assumes the formidable proportions of war bo goes on to ceaino what is war and gives a definition that actually precludes the possibility of the cuban patriots bringing the struggle for liberty out of the category of a mere rebellious insurrection as the president terms the present status of the tight for human rights or it they are capable of eo doin then they will not need the interfere int erfer ence of this country for they shall haye obtained absolute liberty v currency takes up much of the presidente document he advocates the retirement of the greenbacks not directly but in effect tbt y ara to be made redeemable in gold and can only get into circulation after being once redeemed by ex with gold this will mean the contraction of the circulating medium by the greenbacks green backs or their representatives in gold will be taken from daily circulation this is not all but the president suggests that the banke ba given greater issuing power which simply means that an entering wedge ceball be made so thai ultimately th government 11 taken out of the banking business and the banks be established in the governing busine ea how international bimetallism to which the president alludes can be associated with a system of contraction fraught with so many evils understanding unless we the statement in reference to bi as a sham and the whole to be nothing more than a thinly tailed to forever fasten upon us a currency system absolutely in the con arol of the money sharks of the land taken as a whole the message is a poor state document lacking vigor and devoid of |