| Show COMMENTS OX THE MESSAGE Kansas City Times President Cleve lands last regular message to congress strikes a clear high note of courage and faith in the patriotism of the American people and of confidence in the great desUny of the republic Its splendid Americanism exemplified I in the hearty sympathy which it expresses for the un fortunate people of other nations who are battling against cruel and adverse con ditions Omaha WorldHerald We intend no unkndness when we say that if Mr Cleveland had cultivated a more generous gener-ous sympathy with his own people and a better acquaintance with those sentiments senti-ments that keep the cradle of liberty rocking Whet ver the breath of liberty has found lodging l in human form If Mr Cleveland had grown closer to his own peoplehis heart would have been more sensible to the pathetic appeal of Cuba San Francisco Examiner The eighth and last regular message of Grover Cleveland as president of the United States will not engender general regret that its author is not to have the opportunity oppor-tunity of delivering more lectures of the same sort There is something irrepressibly irre-pressibly irritating In the ponderous adiposity adi-posity in which Mr Clevelands globules of thought are enfolded His essay resembles re-sembles a cold tamale in which a double supply of corn meal and shucks is made to compensate for a total absence of chcken Anaconda Standard It is a spirItless message it is a tame state paper It reads like the valedictory of a man who is about to graduate out of public life and who realizes that the people are not sorry for it No views worth studying are found in Its wearily involved sentences sen-tences in anything that relates to this countrys domestic affairsIt is cold indifferent in-different tedious white the man who wart to follow Mr Clevelands leader shL > in what relates to foreign affairs will rise from the reading of the message and wonder whether It isnt this conn trys manifest duty to turn in and help SDain to whip Cuba Omaha Bee The fourth and farewell annual message of President Cleveland can be commended as a clear and adequate ade-quate presentation of public questions It very properly begins with a reference entirely optimistic in lone to the result of the late political contest in which the president finds reason for faith in the good sense and patriotism the people Boise Statesman The presidents annual an-nual message Is of the usual character Some persons will be disappointed with lesaect to certain of its features but on the whole it will be satisfactory to tho American public If we mistake not the message will take rank as one of the most businesslike and most statesman I like that President Cleveland has ever written Butto InterMountain Clevelands message this year takes on particular interest from the fact that it is his last that it marks almost the close of an administration ad-ministration which has been an inexcusable Inexcus-able and disgraceful failure and during which panic and poverty have been in flicted on the people San Francisco Call The last message to congress of President Cleveland is as was expected a long and elaborate review re-view or all political issues before the country It is in many passages wordy to the extent of being tedious It will therefore not receive the widespread readig which would otherwise he given it and this is to some extent to be regretted re-gretted since it fleserves the careful study of the people Chicago Chronicle President Cleve lands message Is of great length But its length is measured by the Importance ot the subjects which he was compelled to present for thfe consideration of congress con-gress and the public If he had gone into sich detailtj as some of his predecessors presented his > message would have been twice as long Kansas City Times More platitudinous platitudin-ous than any of the state papers he has penned since his Incumbency the last messL < f of President Cleveland is marked by a tU tidity of statement and a prolixIty of detail that will Invite to its perusal t few person except such as M < 2 are compelled to wade through it by the necessities of their occupation to dig out mrepal for comment or to aceuire statistical information Chicago InterOcean The first general discussion of interest relates to Cuba The = is a deal of indefinite discussion Grover Cleveland illustrates the law of heredity by a strong penchant for preaching only his homilies are based on current events for texts The substance dbs I r all is that he Is not prepared to do anything toward restoring peace on that unhappy Island but he thinks the time may come when the United States ought Ii to call a halt on the butchery and devastation devas-tation now going on |
