President Cleveland's message is a stron...

President Cleveland's message is a strong one and deals with a large variety of topics. His recommendations on the whole are sensible and business like. The country can congratúlate itself upon possessing a sturdy, honest, common-senst chief magistrate with convictions that he is not agraid to express and to stand by. Mr. Cleveland's view;always make good reading and he has given manyexpressive phrases U the country. Such phrases are no.' lacking in this message. We maj expect to hear considerable about "sublimated theories" hereafter Certainly many sublimated theories are exploited in this city. A general press dispatch from Philadelphia during the past week says: "There was a speculative tendency which was but a natural resuli of the publication of the proposec tariff law, and X wool sold for 21 (a 22 cents, the highest they have brought for months." This is exactly what the Argus has predicted for several years. If wool is put on the free list, it will be higher next year. Next .week the Argus wil i republish an article written just before the passage of the McKinle) bill giving the effect of tariff or wool. Our predictions at that time were fully carried out, and the predictions that wool will be higher if put on the free list is one which is based not only on sound reasoning but also on experience. The Argus will refer to the arguments at length next week. During the past year, the pension rolls of the country have been increased by 89,944 names, and yet we find some republicans howling that the democratie administraron is an enemy of the old soldier's because 33,690 names were dropped from the rolls, while 123,634 were added. The president well says: "I am unable to understand why frauds in the pension rolls should not be exposed and corrected with thoroughness and vigor. Every name fraudulently put upon these roll is a wicked imposition upon the kindly sentiment in which pensions have their origin; every fraudulent pensioner has become a bad citizen; every false oath in support of-a pen sion has made perjury more common, and false and undeserving pensioners rob the people not only of their money, but of the patriotic sentiment which the survivors oí war,, fought for the preservation of the unión, ought to inspire. Thousands of neighborhoods have their well known fraudulent pensioners and recent developments by the bureau establish appalling conspiracief to accomplish pension frauds. Bj no means the least wrong done is to brave and deserving pensioners, who certainly ought not to be condemned to such association." The Hon. Frank Hurd in making a political speech during the cam paign of 1888, at Delaware, Ohio, prophesied as to what the people might expect if the protective policy of the republican party was adopted. These are the words used: "Standing before you today with honest conviction of the truth I am about to utter, I declare that the principies of protection as applied by the republican party to the economie policy of this country is the enemy of every man within the sound of my voice, and here I say to the great agricultural interests, in which a majority of you are engaged, that if the protective policy of the republican party is continued in force, within five years wheat wil) sell in the rnarket of this city at fifty cents per bushel." Mr. Hurd was laughed at by everbody, but no