Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-27
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Statement of the Raremous Manner IN sclt ich
1t Is Deco ured by Newspaper Readers.


1t Is Dero"red by Newspaper Readers.
(Elmira, N. Y. Free Pressl.
On Monday of this week the Free Press
used eleven of its columns to put before
the people the communication sent by Mr..
Hayes to Congress. The day after two
column synopsis was printed of John
Sherman's report concerning the finances
of the country.
To see the effect produced upon the
people of this locality by these documents
since the days named, $50 persons as they
happened to be met, living in this city
and neighborhood, have been interviewed
concerning them and each one tailed.
ThesS persons are Of all shades of politi-
cal opinion and of all degrees of intelli-
gence, and the answers they made to the
questions asked were very curious and
somewhat astonishing. &c..
Only seventeen out of the $50 had read
the letter of Mr.. Hayes and two had read
Sherman's report Five had SKINNED
over the message and twenty-three had
read the portion of it in relation to the
civil service.
Of the seventeen who had read the
message, seven were ladies and one a
clergyman. One of them also read it be-
cause, as he said, he was forced to do so.
He was on train on Tuesday night that
was blocked in below Binghamton, and
he read it to pass away the time Two
Others were the proof readers in the news
paper offices, and had to read it. One
man said he had laid a copy of the docu-
ment aside to read some Sunday,
"What the old Harry should l read the
message for?' asked one in reply to the
question if he had read it,
"Why, to get some idea of the state OF
the country, to be sure" o '
estate of the country be blOwed What
does Hayes know about the state of the
country that man who goes about with
his eyes open don't know Life is toe
short, my boy, to wade through eleven
columns of what you know already"
''Well, then, as specimen of literary
skill" 5HG
The gentleman who was being interro.
gated put on such blank and frightened
look at this that the inquirer ch0ked of
his question, as indicated by the long
dash. teG
No more words were necessary on that
score. uE
~ used to read Grants messages some
times" said another one. "He was short
and pointed. But never read any other
Presidents remarks, least of all Hayes y
"You newspaper men think it a big
stroke of enterprise" said another, ''tc
kill as you call it, lot Of live matter
and fill up the space with what no one
reads Venture to say that no reader OF
the Free Press took it upon Monday even
ing, and, seeing with what it was fill
ed, did not fling it on the floor with ges-
lures and words of disgust Why, even
the members of Congress and Senators,
when the message was read to them, paid
no attention to it whatever 1t is all a
useless piece of form at the best. The
people don't want such documents these
days" 81
Another one thought the newspapers
should not lumber up their columns with
such stuff. 1t would be proper for the
government to issue number of docu-
ments in pamphlet form and send them
for distribution to the several postoffices
of the country
. Judging from the number who read it
hereabouts, very few copies would do
for this place