Show THE presidents MESSAGE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has 1139 placed before the country the briefest annual message we have any recollection of this is something of ofa a surprise after the announcement bain being seat in advance viat it would be the lon longest Aest contal eta fordsor word dor sor aboud about four fou tee i columns of the our readers will find the document in lla its proper place and they would have received it in these pages at as early ar aa hour if it lad been as voluminous as was represented ample arra arrangements laverents lave dents hiving having been made to that end the message is after all a moho graph 91 thatus that js it deals with hut one subject z tire tariff the brevity ot of the document will e enable all to spare the time to read it carefully care tully sod and upon apina so ao we feel assured there are but few who will dissent from our conclusion in relation to it that it is in we have rarely it if ever seen t the he question of reform handled with greater skill or mure more bonsu consummate amate reason reasoning ug jt it is quite argumentative but all ali the arguments aia are logical ind and each reaches an irresistible conclusion in of ane itce necessity of a change all along the line the sophisticated utterances and delusive presentations of strict projectionists protectionists are exposed in a most masterly manner not iettie in the words or th the spirit of a partis partisan aubut but with a high and profound regard for the well being beine of the republic and in the accomplish accomplishment mont of this t there hare is no BO advocacy of free trade strictly speaking only that condition of things wrongly so called which aims at le ie form of abuses by curtailing curtailing curt ailin war taxes and customs duties which 9 have ave taken from the channels of traffic hundreds of f millions of dollars beyond the governments ern ments actual requirements only oaly to be hoarded away la in idleness in the national treasury all in a all I 1 the nies message sage is a patriotic statesmanlike document one that places its author la in the frost front rank bf the thinkers and political economists of our er day it is well worthy a 9 thou thoughtful abt perusal by all |