Show PRESIDENT HAYES latest and last annual message to Congress is spread before the HERALD readers this morning morn-ing In order to publish it in fall and et the same time furnish the customary amount of telegraphic newa and miscellaneous matter we issue a twopage supplement The message is longer than any of the Presidents previous eflusions and we do not hesitate to pronounce it an able and valuable state paper With the country in its present prosperous condition and the contented satisfied sat-isfied feeling that everywhere prevails it would be difficult for his excellency to frame a message that did not read well to tne millions of people in the United States There has never been a period in the nations history when a better showing ing could be made than is presented today The republic is enjoying perhaps the most prosperous year of its existence Then why should not Mr Hayes be able to present a remarkably re-markably good message and one which must be received with pleasant pleas-ant satisfaction everywhere But the rrnntloman maces Ihft TTlifttflkG Ol gentleman attributing to himself and his policy this happy condition of things I and my policy are implied iI not written all over the document when Mr Hayec and his policy had nothing whatever to do with bringing about the present circumstances Neither he nor his eminent financier finan-cier Mr Sherman could have reduced re-duced the public debt BQ it has beer reduced if the country had not been prosperous nor is either of them responsible in the slightest degree for thin prosperity The earth the rain the Eunall the elements combined to add to the wealth of the republic never before have there been such harvests as were gathered in 1879 and 1880 and the Old World has furnished fur-nished a steady and profitable market for our products Industries have been stimulated by reason of their lagging elsewhere money has been plentiful and in this new land possessing unlimited mources has found abundant opportunities for investment The mines have yielded up their wealth and labor has been constanty and profitably employed What has Mr Hayes or his administration done for the country coun-try It is true a portion of the public debt has been refunded in bonds bearing a lower rate of interest but this was not the work of Hayes The solidity of the republic and its ability to keep its promises to pay floated the loan and would today enable us to issue 8J or even 3 per cent bonds for every dollar of the debt that will become payable during the coming four years Mr Hayes claims too much and plumes himself too loudly over circumstances that be had nothing to do with creating His civil service reform talk reads prettily but how has it been in practice prac-tice shameless fraud There has been no civil service reform The presidential oidera were of no more force than EO many school boy scribblinga His appointees paid no attention 10 his orders and even disregarded them eo far as he could without bringing himself into public contempt Officials and placeholders have Leen assessed as heavily and BB openly for political purposes as under any administration ad-ministration The President forbade the participation of federal officials in political affairs yet from bis cabinet I ministers to petty postmasters they have publicly disregarded his command com-mand and ha has winked at tho vio ation The satisfactory condition oC the republic socially and indus trklly is due eolely to the country itself and not tc the policy of the administration admitting that Mr Hayes administration admini-stration has ban a policy and pursued it But in the main the message is a ceod one and will be eo received by the country and the civilized world It is good because it could not well have been made otherwise However How-ever there are some objectionable points in it The first is the al usion to Utah It is quite generally understood under-stood hereabouts that the portion of the message of chief local interest waa framed by one of our federal I i judges at the request of Mr Hayes and adopted by him The judicia gentleman must t be surprised to fine that his queer suggestions have obtained ob-tained such high recognition ant tbs country will perhaps wondei also It seems strange that in this enlightened age and in the free republic of America such nnrepublican and monstrous ideas of the government of a community 0 com-munity should have been born in the brainof an intelligent being Can i anyone bean verdant to believe that what Mr Hayes proposes in regard to the Mormon people could ever be sanctioned by our American citizens r or the American people In this republic > public we do not go backward Progress Pro-gress improvement and advancement I 9 iP advance-ment have been the cry from the beginning i be-ginning Whatever system of govern I h1 mont is given to this territory will be f better than the one that we are cow living under and instead of losin any of their limited rights as citizen c the people will acquire others belonging 1 belong-ing to them but which they have 1 never been able to obtain The wild suggestions of a judge ere not law I 1 and no more are tho careless recommendations recom-mendations of a president statutes If they were the Utah people twenty I years ago and almost every year since would have been in great danger of legal annihilation an-nihilation Whatever there maybe may-be that is wrong or unlawful in this territory must be cured by lawful and regular methods No extreme measures meas-ures and especially such as are monstrously mon-strously vicious wicked and unlawful in themselves will accomplish anything any-thing Congress perhaps understands under-stands this if Mr Heyes and his Utah judicial adviser do not We need have no fear that A provisional I government for this territory will be I provided nor that the 150000 persons i per-sons in this and other territories against whom the President raves will be deprived of any more of their 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