Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Where Trouble Began. [ARTICLE]

Where Trouble Began.

At the end of bis first term President Cleveland left a yearly suis plus of over $70,000,000, a treasury surplus of more than that, and $97,000,000 in gold above the SIOO,'M)0,000 reserve. When the Democrats returned to power after four years of the Harrison Reed regime, the ap* propriations had amounted to a billion dollars, the revenue had been cut down $88,000,000,»and the surplus was gone, and the gold reserve was so near the point of impairment that Secretary Foster had ordered bond plates prepared in anticipation of a loan, the necessity for which, however, he managed to pass over to his Democratic successor.

Thomas Jefferson was second to Washington only in the love of his countrymen. He was ast tesmau and the best type of an American . He said in 1808 that a main object of the United States “must be to exclude aJ 1 European influence in this hemisphere,” That was fifteen jears before the promulgation of the Monroe doctrine.In 1823, when President Monroe asked Jefterson’s advice about enunciating the doctrine, Jefferson said: “Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle oui selves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.”