Show Press Comments on the Inaugural The New York World says of the inaugural in-augural What sv contrast docs its appeal ap-peal for fraternal unity present to the at tempt of Blaino immediately after the election and the more recent efforts of Evarts to excite sectional prejudice and distrust Earnest unpretending sincere sin-cere and vigorous the inaugural partakes of the character of the man Dana of the Sun says of the address It is very well written There is nothing new original or brilliant about it but the passage relating to economical government govern-ment and a plain mode of living will be welcomed with satisfaction by the great proportion of the people There is no doubt the whole document expresses plainly and sincerely the ideas and purposes pur-poses of the author Those who have been expecting from him minute specific declarations upon questions of public policy will be disappointed The Evening Post and Commercial Bul letin are the only papers in New York condemning the inaugural expressions regarding servile immigration The Post says f The encouragement thus given to the antiChinese craze mars the effect of the address The Bulletin says He might with advantage have omitted commitment to the antiforeign cheap labor crusade With this exception the document is one that may pass without criticism The Tribune though disposed to smile at its superabundance of agreeable commonplacesdryly remarking that it has been said before we believe that a government by the people is a blessing and that the Constitution was consecrated by the prayers and patriotic devotion of the fathersnevertheless accords the new President sincerely in the utterance of phrases which in the mouths of many would have no meaning whatever It accepts the declaration of his inaugural as an assurance of a purpose not lightly formed so far as it has been formed at all and by which he means to abide The Times heads its page descriptive of the inaugural scenes The Reform President Pre-sident and says i The address is dignified digni-fied simple forcible and eminently satisfactory satis-factory There is no mistaking thin e tone th-in which he speaks of reform in the administration ad-ministration of the government and the application of business principles to public affairs and in which he announces that civil service reform should be in good faith enforced It is a long time since the party which was largely represented repre-sented in the vast crowds at Washington has been called on to listen to so much sound doctrine BO clearly declared and evidently backed by so resolute and practical a will It remains to be seen how that party will receive the application applica-tion of the address which is sure to follow The Joitrnal of Commerce in its ancient democratic way is delighted with the brief pertinent and most eloquent address ad-dress It says It is refreshing to hear once more such ringing words of devotion devo-tion to the Constitution and the solemn pledge that it is to be interpreted in the spirit which governed in its first adoption adop-tion It is a rebuke to the centralizing policy of the late administration There is not in the entire address a single line that is inspired by the spirit of a political demagogue there is a sturdy manliness in every part of it which will leave the impression upon every honest unprejudiced unpreju-diced reader that the speaker accepts the office as a public trust determined to do what in him lies to promote the common welfare The Boston Transcripts criticism ot the inaugural is thorougly Bostonian It says It is the production of an alert wellpoised strong brain nurtured in the best schools of rhetoric Its utterances are instinct with thought verified by an intellectual energy rarely discoverable in official compositions In its compactness the swing and rhythm of its periods and clear discussion of tho topics touched upon it worthily ranks with the most celebrated of similar American productions produc-tions |