The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-09
Comments on the Message.

The New York Herald says the President
is sound on AL questions but the combined
religious and school questions, and on this he
is quixotic.
The New York Times says the message
will be read by the whole country with gen.
eral satisfaction, and its suggestions are such
as the soundest judgment of the business men
of the union will concur in.
The message adds but little to the stock of
the public knowledge of the affairs of the
country, and shows remarkable reticence
in regard to some of the most important
measures that will occupy the attention of
the present Congress. s.-B0st0n Herald.
The New York Tribune thinks the mes
sage is third termish, and says nothing has
occurred warranting the bringing forth of
the school question and the proposed taxa
tion of church property at this time as new
issues. The message is one of politics, not
of craftsmanship.
The New York Sun says the new PROPOSE
tions by the President in his message, prove
that they win be introduced into the next
campaign, and thinks the message will
disappoint the people on the Cuban question.
The Sun does not believe the people will
pay much heed to the Presidents recommen-
dation.
Tie seventh annual message of President
Grant is a document which will be read with
great interest and probably meet with very
general appreciation on account of its calm
and moderate tone and the wisdom of Its
suggestions. On the whole
the message touches upon all matters of
present national concern in very sensible
way; and if not brilliant production is, what
is much better. useful and suggestive one.
Boston Globe.
The general tenor Of the document is so
clear and forcible that there is little danger of
its being misunderstood. Like the previous
productions OF its author, it makes no pre-
tence to fine writing, but it takes up the af
fairs of the nation in straightforward, busi-
ness-like style, dwells upon the different
topics in proportion to their Importance, SUBJ
mits direct and judicious recommendations.
and is characterized throughout BY good
sense, enlarged views and patriotic feeling
Boston Journal.
The message ends abruptly, very much as
if its author were writing it in pencil or were
in haste to meet waiting personal engage
ueut. nc uuOsb iiupOltdu VI ltS SuSSeS-
tions, however, is the propriety Of placing a
statesman in the executive Office who will de-
vote his time and thought to the welfare of
the country, without any of these unwelcome
symptoms in an official address of preoccupa.
tion and haste. The people will supply what
the message hurriedly omits.-Boston Post
"Although his language is somewhat OBJ
scure, yet his disposition is to observe strict
justice in dealing with Spain. If the Presi-
dent, however, could have frankly stated
that he had brought Spain to the point of
indemnity for the past, and guarantee for the
future, no cause of trouble would remain be-
tween the two countries. The proposition
to tax church property in the message, is but
a reinforcement to- that which proposes Sec
tartan strife on the common school aues-
tion."-Ne,o York World.
The fact that the President addressed his
seventh annual message to an unfriendly
House would not appear from anything the
message contains. 1t has certainly not had
the effect to qualify his opinions on any es-
sential question, or the frank ness and di-
rectness with which he has expressed them.
On subjects of the first importance-the
Spanish question in our foreign relations,
and the currency question in home affairs
the message is explicit and reassuring. On
these and other subjects of universal interest
the President has taken no backward STEP
Boston Advertiser.