The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-06

the st. lawrence for It is evident that there
Is to be no more triiing With the rights Of our
citizens on that river or in regard to those
fisheries. Our people 'down East" and
Northwest will join hands upon this branch Of
the Message. The grand American outlet of
the ST. Lawrence is fast assuming the impor-
lance Of the outlets of the Mississippi under
Jefferson, and it must eventually come to the
same solution The Message will open the
general agitation of this solution.
The subsidies recommended for the encou-
ragement of American iron steamship lines
will find host of supporters. The routine
business of the executive departments and the
workings of the Treasury are discussed in
Others of our editorials; but upon the new
party cry of revenue reform" General Grant
comes 80 refreshngly to the point and the
purpose that he cannot fail to chal-
lenge the special attention Of all
parties. His Message. in fact is
a declaration Of war against these so-called
par excellence ''revenue reformers." He
gives to tho New York Epensmg POSI- the Chi
cago Tribune, Carl Schurz and Gratz Brown
and their republican followers the choice be-
tween the democratic party and third party,
inasmuch as their peculiar ''revenue reform"
notions are not the notions of Grants admins
tration. He moves here upon the ''enemys
works, and the movement looks like the
advance upon Fort Donelson. II brings the
issue into close quarters and knocks these
new-fangled catchwords and claptrap of ''reve-
nue. reform" into a cooked hat So broad,
practical and liberal, too, is the system of
revenue reform suggested by the President
that only the extremists at both ends can
reasonably object to it.
The Message gives hopeful view Of the new
humanitarian policy adopted towards the In
dams, and submits that in it's appropriations
Of the public domain to railway corporations
Congress has been driving the engine too fast.
and should slacken steam aud apply tho
brakes; and so say the people. The liberal
tiers and for educational purposes, works
admirably in the development of new States
and Territories, aud ought to be continued.
The census, we are assured, will furnish in all
the departments Of industry flattering ex-
hibit Of the country's prosperity in spite Of the
desolations Of our late war. Finally the Mes
sage sums up the policy Of the administrator
to be the enforcement of the laws, economy,
retrenchment, the payment Of the national
debt, wise reduction Of taxes, honest and
Hal ~,
our treatment Of the Indians and in our whole
civil service "a honest ballot and no repeat
ing, and no violence or prescription on account
Of party, nativity or color.
Such is the annual Message Of General
Grant II is good State paper and a stsnch
party platform. Our only fears are that Cen
eral Grant is too old in the honesty Of the SOL
der, too new in the ways of the politician, too
much disposed to rest from his great labors Of
the war and too amiable by half to carry out
his party programme after the tren-
chant fashion Of Old Hickory But Queen
Victoria gets on very well, though
she hardly troubles herself with State
affairs. She leaves them to her Cabinet,
and her Cabinet to the Parliament; so General
Grant, in leaving his general policy to his
Cabinet, and bis Cabinet to the supervision of
his party in Congress, may prosper and en-
JOY himselfa at the same time. He knew where
to look for good general better than he
knows where to look for good secretary, and
here he may wisely rely upon older profess
sonal experience than bis own. To be good
politician, statesman or shoemaker, you must
learn the trade. But this Message indicates
the turning over new leafby General Grant as
the head Of his party, that he has been learn
ing the trade, and 1t may be that he will yet
astonish his limping supporters on his strategy
and tactics, action and activity as master Of
the political field. We think he has fairly
knocked away the underpinning Of the ''reve-
nue. reformers."