T TA A . W e ek ly N e iv sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w .
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMURj ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTSR MANEAT1S.1
From the Brief o; His Holiness Pius IX. to The Tablet, June 4, 1870
Vol. 86. No. 2900. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 7 , 1 8 9 5 .
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■ President Cleveland’s Message— The United States and the United Kingdom — The Trade of the Empire — The Improvement _in ’ Trade — The London Teaching University-The Pressure of Popu
lation in New York C ity— The Population o f France—The Position To-day—Trade with Servia — A Conference on Light Railw ays— The Road to Uganda— Mr. Morley at Newcastle—The Government and Licensing Reform—The City of London and School Board Expenditure — Tu rk e y : The Sultan and the Powers—The Carlyle Centenary 893 L e a d e r s :
“ That Law is Unjust” Nicaragua and Panama Anglican Orders
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CONTENTS.
L eaders (Continued): _
A Further Declaration by the
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Catholic Bishops on the Education Difficulty . . . . . . 901 N otes
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R e v iew s :
The Key of the Pacific A Flash of Summer The Somerset Carthusians The Christmas Graph;c .. The Church and the Slave . .
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C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . ... — 909 News from Ireland . . _ _ 910 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
Paul IV. and Anglican Orders . . 911 “ The Church Review ” . . . . 911 St. Machar . . . . . . . . 911 Newman House . . . . . . 912
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The Catholic Social Union . . . . 912 The Benevolent Society for the
Relief of the Aged aad Infirm Poor 914 “ The Times ” and the Statement of the B ish ops.................................... 914 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . ..917
SU PPLEM ENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :
The Wesleyan Deputalion on
Education The Work o f the London School
B >ard Successes^ o f St. Wilfrid’s College at Public Examinations Exclusion of N o n c o n fo rm is t
Teachers from Denominational Schools Lord Salisbury’s Remedy The Apostles’ Creed The Result of Over-Education . . Purcell and Busby
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N ew s from t h e S chools (Con tinned): School Board Religion and Non
Page conformists ......................... Unconscious Humour Paradise Lost School Board Expenditure Hornsey School Board Election.. Voluntary Schools Defence Asso
ciation .................................... N ew s from t h e D ioceses
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Westminster Southwark . . Birmingham.. Clifton Hexham and Newcastle Newport and Menevia Northampton Nottingham.. Plymouth Salford St. Andrews and Edinburgh
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE President of the United States has sent his annual message to Congress, and a very startling one it is. The greater part of it is devoted to an exposition of the financial straits to which the Government of the richest country in the world has been reduced by a faulty fiscal system. His language on this point k so clear, and at the same time so concise, that it is difficult to condense into a summary. After reviewing the financial legislation of the United States during the last twenty years, the President went on to give the facts about the withdrawal of gold from the country which that legislation has brought about. The Secretary of the Treasury reports that from January i, 1879, to July 14, 1890, a period of over eleven years, only a little over 28,000,000 dollars was withdrawn, and that between July 14, 1890, the date of the passage of the law for the increased purchase of silver, and December r, 1895— or within less than five-and-a-half years— there was withdrawn nearly 375,000,000 dollars, making a total of over 403,000,000 dollars drawn from the Treasury in gold since January 1, 1879, the date fixed in 1875 for the retirement of the United States notes. Nearly 327,000,000 dollars of the gold thus withdrawn has been paid out on these United States notes, and yet every one is still uncancelled and ready to do service in [future gold depletions. In fact, as Mr. Cleveland trenchantly puts its, “ The Government has paid in gold over nine-tenths of its United States notes, and still owes them all. It has paid in gold about one-half of its notes given for silver purchases, without extinguishing by such payment one dollar of these notes.” As a remedy the President advises the retrievement and cancellation of “ greenbacks,” and of the outstanding Treasury notes issued by the Government in payment of silver purchases under the Act of 1890. He believes that this could easily be done by changing the notes for bonds of small as well as large denominations bearing a low rate of interest. He also suggests an increase in the circulation of the national banks. On the question of Cuba the President uses firm and decided language. He is not prepared to recognize the insurgents as belligerents, and urges the whole nation to observe the neutrality laws, ar.d to be
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careful not to violate as citizens obligations admitted to be binding by the Government. He refers to the Waller case as an exception to the usually friendly treatment accorded by France to the United States, and comments upon the continued refusal of the French Government to supply the evidence upon which the Madagascar Court-martial corvicted Mr. Waller. He speaks with severity of the di: crimination against American products in the German Tariff-, and suggests that retaliation of a serious sort may become necessary.
As usual, the references in the Presi-
s-L™sEANifxHE dentiaI message to this country are lengthy. u n i t e d k in g d o m . Our relations with Great Britain, always intimate and important, have demanded during the past year an even greater share of consideration than is usual.” He goes on to say that the principles laid down by the Paris tribunal as applicable to the Behring Sea have not worked well in practice, and he deplores the inefficiency of the British patrol, and declares that the extinction of the fur seal is inevitable unless stronger measures are taken. It is earnestly to be hoped that some explanation will be immediately forthcoming of the fact that only two ships have beer, employed by this country, in police work, in spite of the representations of the American Government. With reference to the payment of a lump sum to the Canadian sealers whose vessels were seized by American cruisers, the President still thinks that would be the wisest course, and recommends Congress to adopt it. In the alternative, a treaty already agreed upon will be sent to the Senate for ratification, by which the claims will be adjudicated upon by a joint Commission. Touching the delicate question of the dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain, the President briefly refers to the Munroe doctrine in the following terms : “ The traditional established policy of this Government firmly opposes the forcible increase by any European Power of its territorial possessions on this Continent; this policy is as -well-founded on principle as it is strongly supported by numerous precedents ; as a consequence, the United States are bound to protest against the enlargement of the area of British Guiana in derogation of the rights and against the will of Venezuela.” Then comes the suggestion that both parties, the weak and the strong, should refer the dispute to arbitration. On this point the President observes that: “ Resort to such arbitration should include the whole controversy, and will not be satisfactory if one of the Powers concerned is permitted to draw an arbitrary line through the territory in debate and declare that it will submit to arbitration only
