Show TIIH VltUmitNT MESSAGIL The longespocted message 01 rreil dent McKinley to Congress wan handed In today and appears In full In this Iou or the News U Is on elaborate document fully exhausting the subject extenuating nothing Mr setting down ought In malice and we cordially commend It 10 our reader The President begins I at the beginning and traces life subject consecutively from point to point bringing the statement state-ment down to the present time He omits no salient feature of the case and has observed a line of composition Inputting In-putting the points togfther ruth awhile a-while clearly and dispassionately told and excluding alt phases of partisan bias or national prejudice at the same time In their unfolding weave an Indictment I In-dictment hlb arraigns the Ppalllh government and people at the bar of civilization and Christianity to answer for their manifold and long continued offense lie points out that while troubles of various kinds amounting frequently to war have kept the Island In a state ot Insecurity and disorder dis-order the Inability of the home government govern-ment to establish a better condition of things has been more and more apparent ap-parent until at last It has become powerless Its waning supremacy suprem-acy being characterized by outrages Infinite Increasing In all Inverse ratio This has not only been shocking to the cultivated sense of the civilized world but has been a source of great uVprlva lion to the United States involving seating vere loss to our Commerce anti ere ating unrest and uncertainty within our domain This condition must bo supplanted by one more In accordance with modern methods l The President cites the Maine tragedy as an Illustration Illustra-tion of Spains Inability to control Its own affairs and officers In Cuba und recommends the restoration restora-tion at order there by ouch use ot Uio army and navy of the United Unit-ed States as Congress may see lit to employ The armistice just proclaimed Is I referred to and left to the consideration considera-tion ot the lawmakers with but little cominnt Altogether the message Is a credit to the mind and heart ot Its author lie can neither be hounded Into war by agencies at home nor Intimidated Into weakness by those abroad It Cull gram will give It the attention to which It Is entitled and then base such action as may bo taken upon their cool 1 nnd unbiased judgment w e need hate no four of the outcome |