Show THE PRESIDENT MESSAGE the message of the president Pre eident to congress la IS long enough to suit those who love a good solid hour of reading and ponderous enough for those who drearily insist that in politics press and people there is ie too much of a tendency to light mindedness and frivolity As AB for thereat the rest of mankind outside of these two classes there are few we fancy who will like all ail parts of the document and perhaps still atil fewer who will like none of it to mr cleveland a own party it will doubtless give reasonable satisfaction throughout gnout and the more thoughtful of the opposing party will have to admit that to break its logic and force something more will be needed deeded than mere criticism of its literary style and of the aggressive jive self importance of its author on the whole it bears many evidences of soundness sagacity statesmanship and cOu courage rag weakened however by prolixity of detal detail and by sundry flings at a policy with which the writer had no need to say be was not in accord there are some things which even a president may safely leave to the intelligence telligo telli gence uce of his less exalted fellow citizens the opinion that the statistical and tedious details of departmental work could have been as well reserved for the departmental reports emboldens one to the criticism that the message would have been better if it had been shorter western readers would have been more pleas pleased td too if there had bad bien been less about the navy say and a small paragraph urging a compliance with the plank of the party platform as to statehood for the territories whoever expected any signs of the administrations conversion to a friendship for sil all verwill have received such disappointment as he be deserved eastern iu influence fluence is too potent yet a while to permit any such change and yet the president talks on the subject logically and with an earnestness earne etness that mistaken though the silve silvert rites tea may deem it is still worthy the name of patriotic conviction in like manner those who anticipated as a result of the ato late elections a of his bis demand for radical tarifa reforms find themselves immensely mistaken mis takeo he be is not that kind of a man without at all entering into the merits of a tariff for protection as opposed to a tariff lariff only revenue a controversy that will last jast as long as an governments endure we shall probably not be misjudged lor for saying the president makes a strong argument turns his periods skillfully fully and presents his bis views 01 himself and party altogether felicitously and capably this part of the could not have been more forcibly and adroitly written by the keenest tariff reformer in the country there are parts of too toe mess message aize which thle this section of the union will h heartily approve the thinks abe he presidents course with regard to hawaii in so far as an it relates to the rebuke of those who officiously would interfere in the domestic affairs of any foreign D government Is wise and hl to ridicule of the free seed distribution as a at present practiced his excoriation of the land grabber and speculator peculator nil his recommendations as to the indiana indian his determination that the pension list shall be a roll of honor unstained by roguery and unencumbered by fraud his views on the civil service his bia suggestions gest ions 8 an aa to public economy all these are treated in an eminently vigorous statesmanlike and patriotic manner and can meet with no object tion from fair minded men anywhere Finally there have been presidential messages that created more of a sensation and some that were more interesting all or nearly all have been shorter and few have not been marked with m more ore of the graces of diction but taken as aa a whole the be present production will bear comparison with most of them for and strength and when it gets into the archives in the presence of its predecessors decess ors it will have no special reason to feel ashamed of itself in such illustrious company |