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Show THE MESSAGE.- The President's message is nearly finished, fin-ished, it is said. When it has been given to Congress and the world, then -will we. know the work that has been done, the work that is to be done. The return ji the Democratic party was the verdict of the country that the war is over and that iiov we are a united people, all acquiescing acquiesc-ing in the results of the -war. The days of reconstruction are past, and what was once a problem is now an accomplished fact. In a representative government there will always . oe parties and they will differ as to j the powers of the government and the policy to be pursued, but now there is no party in America but that desires the best welfare of the whole country. There are factions and demagogues dema-gogues who desire their own advancement advance-ment far more than Jhe advancement of the general welfare, but it is the people who make the great bulk of the parties, and the people are not with the demagogues. dema-gogues. There are many intricate and important import-ant subjects that the people will be anxious anx-ious to learn the mind of the Administration Administra-tion upon, for while Mr. Cleveland was the candidate of the Democratic Demo-cratic part' in 1884, in 18S5 he is the President of the United States, and : this , is the reason for wanting to know his views now. As President of the United I Stales he does not cease to be a Democrat, Demo-crat, but he ceases to be a partisan. Among the more important questions upon which the country will desire to know the views of the President are the tariff ; the silver problem ; the question of civil-service reform ; the Chinese question; ques-tion; the Utah problem. The silver question, ques-tion, the Chinese question and the Utah problem have a special interest for the people of the West, and a general interest for the whole country. The country is peaceful and prosperous, and fortunately has no foreign question. The nearest to a foreign question that the country has is the question of an international canal, and I this will yet assume a very considerable j importance. On all these matters, and man' more, the people are anxiously awaiting to know the views of the new j Administration. I i |