The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-12-07
How the Message is Received.

President Arthur's message is received
with general approval. The newspapers,
without distinction of party or faction, are
warm in praise. The New York Tribune
calls It Sensible and patriotic" The Bos-
ton Advertiser thinks it "a strong, sagacious
and valuable State paper" The Springfield
Republican commends it as Sensible
throughout and sensitive TO public opinion"
The Boston Globe calls il "dignified in tone,
strong in expression, and exceedingly vigor-
Gus in manner" The New York Post saws
the President sis fortunate in the possess
ion of faculty of clear, forcible, and per-
suasive statement such as but few of his
predecessors could boast, and the present
message, like all his State papers, is on every
topic he touches unusually easy and even
pleasant reading.' The New York Sun
says ''the message is made in the interest of
honest aud economical government The
New York Herald unstinte lly praises sits
wise and useful recommendations" The
Providence Journal describes it as "a very
sensible, earnest, and patriotic document
The Boston Herald says sit is patriotic and
temperate in tone, admirable in its con-
struetion, and in the main wise in its rec
ommen daiions." The Boston Post COM
mends it as ga creditable paper" and says
Mr. Arthur, as rule, knows how to be
discreet in his State documents and public
utterances generally, that fact being made
patent to the people OF this country in the
surprise that they felt that his letter of ac-
ceptaDce should be SO much superior in rec
ognition of public sentiment and apparent
grasp of questions of policy to Mr.. Gar
fields" The Eastern Argus finds it ''weil
filed with common sense" The comments
made by the Boston Traveller are very
frank, honest and sensible. The Traveller
says: ''9igniied in its dction, and temper
ate in its tone, it is, nevertheless, full of
merciess logic and stern conclusions. 1t is
an heroic treatment of a desperate party sit
uation. As enc after another the President
passes in review the same topics which he
dealt with in his first message and renews
in yet more vigorous terms the statesman
like recommendations by ignoring which the
expiring Congress has called down the pop
alar lightning, and made the very existence
of the Republican party problematcal, the
intelligence of the country will not be slow
to recognize the force of a personal and pc
litical vindication that is dramatically per-
feet. Economic appropriations, reduction
Of internal taxation, a revision of the war
tariff, practical reform of the civil service,
are the texts from which the President de
livers this striking ad iress to the outgoing
Congress, and exhorts it to deathbed repen-
lance. The iaundiced section of the Repub-
lican press which has been lying in wait for
weeks with the predetermined purpose to
carp at the second message, as it did at the
first, regardless of its real strength or weak
ness, is dumbfounded by its calm yet I'M
answerable appeal to the record of a faithful
Executive and faithless Congress, and its
effective invocation of the verdict of the ma
ton as recently expr, ssed with such start
ling emphasis at the polls.''