Show PMSE FOR PRESiDENT London Morning Jijess View of the Message IS I REMARKABLE DOCUMENT Regard It as the Most Characteristic Character-istic Paper Ever Sent t Congress r by a Chef Magistrate Skeptical However ot Any Great Outcome i From Presidents Effort in Direction Direc-tion of Reform of the Trusts Anti Anarchism or Reciprocity Idea Being That Senate Will Step In I I 12l r fcEhS Tendon Da1l r pap rs this morning looking at PfesJ > dent Roosevelts message lr JeSI point of view of its literary power and the wealth of weighty matters discussed dis-cussed regarded It as one of the most characteristic messages ever sent to Congress At the same time the papers recognize Its conservative and businesslike l busi-nesslike moderation and that no attempt at-tempt has been made as the Morning i Post remarks To strike an attitude or I carrying his listeners away On the whole however the newspapers news-papers are skeptical of any great outcome out-come from the Presidents effort In the direction of reform of the trusts anti anarchism r reciprocity the Idea being that the Senate will effectually step In I I and pievent any great changes In the I existnt sstm Most of tho papers remark upon tho tone of exultation adopted by President Roosevelt In dealing with the canal question but they dont show the slightest disposition to caval thereat OPINION OF TELEGRAPH The Dally Telegraph says It would have been an Inconceivably disastrous blunder to have opposed Americas wishes in this matter and thus drive her to build a still greater fleet than she I already contemplates which It Is safe I to predict will twenty years hence make the United States the second sea I power In the world The Telegraph thinks that President Roosevelts policy Is calculated rather Ito I-to diminish than to Increase Europes exaggerated dread of the American danger Amercan VIEW OF STANDARD The Standard Is similarly of the opinion that nothing in the message need in the smallest degree excite anxiety or apprehension abroad This paper comments upon the Presidents uncompromising assertion of the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine as somewhat uncondi I tionally inasmuch as there Is little de sire on the part of any foreign power New to extend t1Tt11 Its area of militarism to the POST DISAPPOINTED The Morning Post Is disappointed that the message contains no echo of the late President McKlnleys latl Prc jclJnley pronouncement pro-nouncement Tho period of exclusion Is oor and comments mainly upon melinly President Roosevelts unexpected mod oration The Post says there Is not a a line of the anticipated challenge to tho I political machine but rather a strong disposition to conciliate the Republican Republi-can majority Hepubl HOPES OF CHRONICLE The Dally Chronicle hopes that al though President Roosevelt shows great tenderness for protectionist susceptibilities sus-ceptibilities his proposed policy Js a step In the direction of free trade The paper considers his cautious and ten tative proposals concerning trusts to low that tIme ofllce of President has R aobeilng effect oven upon the most buoyant of natures Regarding President Roosevelts spir ited enunciation of Monroeism the Chronicle says Whether the European Euro-pean nations are likely to respect this Amerlcun nrohibltlon much lon cr when the desirable colonizing grounds of the world are being snapped up In a headlong race must depend ultlnmte ly I upon the ability 01 the United States to enforce their prohibition i TIMES FINDS NO FAULT I The Times In an editorial on the Presidents message says It Is distinguished distin-guished by a clearness firmness and reserved strength which ont require I the aid of rhetorical pyrotechnics or popular tplatltudes We certainly have no fyult to find says the Times with hlsllauguage toward the British I Government or Indeed with his 1 fori I reign policy generally It Is i Tot easy to see how the exclusion policy anbc I enforced The United States would 10 day be poorer In many of the finest elements of its national character If rts I an entrance fee had been demanded I lot every settler In the arly days of colonization r The Times thinks that reciprocity and the trusts will prove thorny problems and the Presidents cautious handling of tho latter will disappoint some of the passionate social reformers |