Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — SHAM COURAGE. [ARTICLE]

SHAM COURAGE.

President Cleveland m?k- . a ■gre<;t ; parade. ; vetoing the dependent pension bill, j assuming the responsibility and d'ia'nmng the cons.•ipienc'es.” Mow, Iv> Im i., io the .consequences? The ;-otri Siutli will heartily approvm -11 Akkn- Wridl--str eet,naiide4lte-im--porting interests in Mew York‘and Bost m, will pour out mon.ey in deTerise tis it. Cobden clubs, andfr >e ! trade leugut s in England and this ■ country will sustain it with votes and money. It wa s a .veto in harmony with the policy of the administration against any reduction of th ' surplus revenues that does not promote the policy of free trade, thus the President has secured to kithseif by this.veto a support that will i o ino d p.Aw.'iful in IHBB -the 'solid South and the greed of gain ’n the great eastern money eentm-s, J to say nothing of the airl of Biiiish 'gold. It is lee British' manufaei pays mi'*t of the. custom ■ revenues that would have paid [tl.i ese jpnsi- ms. It is tlm imp nd-. ex oi loreige. goods who eoubi putad.::•£part of .wvi title into l.ii.; pocket if our tarill laws were repealed, and on 1 ; markets .jnaicle free To the world.. It is haying this money, in New York that Walt street hungers and thirsts .after. And greed of wealth everywhere • hopes that free trade -may' reduce | the cost of its luxuries. . The xvavwreck.'d vetj nrn in the pot »rhonse dstt i.ieiag utterly beyond therKfetr of sympathy from'any of these natural .allies of the President. He has pleased himself and his friends , by this veto, and any pretense tx tiie contrary is base hypocrisy.— Lo(/ans[K>r' Journal.