The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-18
miscellaneous.
THE "pREsIDENT's'' MESSAGE.

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The Presidents message was sent to
Congress on Monday, and read before
both houses. 1t is long and not very
brilliant document. It fills pamphlet
of twenty-nine closely printed pages.
Not wishing to cucumber our columns,
or inflict so much matter upon our read
ers to so little purpose, we have coDden-
sed all the important portions of the
message within three columns, which
may be found on the first page Of to-day's
Press, and will be, doubtless, more &C.
ceptable in that shape to the general
Yeader-those who do not wish to Twin.
now bushel of chaff to get grain of
wheat"
Mr.. Hayes starts out with Congratula-
tions on the success Of resumption, for
which he takes to himself, of course,
large share Of the credit. me and sher-
man,"a rather trite illustration of the
saying, "How we apples SWIM" Re-
sumption has, moreover, says Mr.. Hayes,
been followed with a great revival of
business with a currency equal in
value to the money of the commercial
world, we are enabled to enter upon an
equal competition with other nations in
trade and production"
This reads well, and gives cause for
congratulations that the improve
ment in the times, the large and remu'
nerative balance of trade in our favor
are the results of resumption of specie
payments, this country is but the vague
hallucination of an imaginative brain.
For it IS a known fact that the short
crops in Europe have increased the de-
mand for American products-that the
increased demand has caused the in.
creased balance of trade in our favor
which has been paid in gold, in sufficient
quantities to stimulate trade-to which
the country is not indebted, in large
measure at least, for the present revival
in trade and commerce, and the future
encouraging outlook.
On finance, the President is still more
radically hard money than Secretary
Sherman. He proposes to retire green
backs entirely, and substitute therefor
the issues Of National banks. This, as
the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette re-
marks, and with which we coincide, is
unfortunate in wosenses, first: in ma
tional sense; that the head of the nation
should become bent upon policy which
may take away from the nation the most
convenient currency ever known, just at
the period when it has attained its
greatest usefulness; second, in party
sense, that an issue should be thus fore
ed upon the country which will divide
the Republican party" The CONNER
Cial-Gszette pronounces this movement
on the part of the President to drive
greenbacKs out Of circulation entirely,
one of the "amiable obstinate" freaks 80
characteristic of the chief executive
more especially, we may venture to add,
when he plays into the pockets of the
"moneyed sristoCraCy," for which he ap-
pears to have fellow feeling" that
makes him to them 30 "wondrous kind"
But the most arrant humbug contained
in his message, however, is his preten-
tious regard for civil service reform. For
any one at all conversant with his ad-
ministration, knows that from the day
he first assumed the Office of President,
he openly and fagrantly violated every
principle of civil service reform. One
Of his first acts was to reward all the
members of the Southern returning
boards, who, whether honestly or dis
honestly, we are not prepared to say,
helped to place him in the highest Office
in the gift of the American people, many
of whom were 30 Dotoriously inCompe'
tent that the Senate refused to confirm
their appointments line of policy
which elbowed the honest. conscientious
and worthy members Of the party to the
rear-not unfrequently the manned sold
Ter and advanced the rascals and party |
scalawags to the front-unmistakable |
evidence Of which the country had man
ifested last week, in the fact that the
Presidents message was stolen by one |
of his appointees, for bribe, and pub. |
lished broadcast through the metro |
politan press, two days before it was
handed to Congress, to whom it was ad-
dressed The people are ready and anx"
ious to welcome real civil servicer reform,
but that practiCed by Hayes, no member
of the party, of intelligence, having any
rd for tho krukh will heaitata IN nrn.