Show GIEELAX AND TUB VEST Comments on His Famous Home Missionary Mis-sionary Speech Ignorance of tile Facts Ignorance of the facts is the only excuse ex-cuse that can be made for Mr Cleve lands abusive remarks about the far west and the morals of communities in the new states and territories It is not a very good excuse for he should be better informed but his error is common to eastern people who have seen little or nothing of this part of the union Denver Republican Classified with Mark Twain If Mr Clevelands general and kindly allusions are slanderous then Mark Twain and Bret Harte are simply malicious mal-icious deepdyed villainous traducers and slanderers of our entire west Kansas Kan-sas City Times Appalling Display of Ignorance The ignorance of the average Englishman English-man concerning the greater part of the United States is paralleled by that of Mr Cleveland Therefore it Is not surprising surpris-ing that he should know nothing of the wonderful development of the country west of the Alleshanies and that he should regard all the west as in the Immoral conditions of a far west mining camp His address at the home missions meeting displayed an appalling ignorance The western communities are more like the former communities of New England than they are like mIning camps It is in the large communities of the east that funds for missionary work are needed Only those who know nothing of the west can applaud Mr Clevelands suggestion sug-gestion of western missionary needs It is not surprising that the western people are shocked by his ignorance of their degree of civilization New York Commercial Com-mercial Advertiser Absurd Ideas of the West The presidents brief speech was in fact an insult to the entire new west and Mr Hartman as the sole representative of a western state was justified in cornIng corn-ing to the defense of his constituents The InterOcean does not believe however how-ever that the president was thinking of politics or the silver question He knows very little about the west and like many a man who has always lived in the east and never so much as made a western trip he has absurd Ideas of the west Chicago InterOcean Ao Reflection on tIle West There was nothing in President Cleve lands speech before the Presbyterian board of home missions that could be construed by a sensible person as a reflection re-flection upon western morals or western civilization Chicago TimesHerald He Is Blistolcen President Clevelands latest public address ad-dress contains various observations of value but he is mistaken In thinking that there is a tendency to disorder among American colonists occupying new territory Of course the outskirts of civilization civ-ilization are always beset by its outlaws but in the United States these have been quickly disposed of as soon as genuine colonization has been begun When the American occupies new territory his first care is to build a schoolhouse and a church Wherever they go Americans take with thorn the spirit of order and progressNew York World Montana Xccds Home Missionaries The assault upon Cleveland by a Montana I Mon-tana congressman will probably strengthen strength-en the presidents recently expressed regard re-gard for home missions and inculcate a desire to have them adopt Montana asa as-a special field of operationSan Francisco Fran-cisco Examiner Where the True Fields Lie If Mr Cleveland thinks the field for home missionary work is the west he is not as familiar with the darker sides of New York and Buffalo as some people have believed him to Minneapolis Times |