Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-12-15
IhE MESSAoE.

The presidents message IS to hand and is very volumnious. In his reference to our foreign affairs he speaks very sym pathe,ically of the ''cruel treatment of Chinese" in thus country, fin some of the far western states and territories" st- uibuting it to trace prejudice" MT. Cleveland evidently does not under stand the Chinese problem. else he would not make such an assertion.
 "Race prejudice" is very small factor of the evils he complains of, the whole question being one of cheap serf labor.
 Considerable prominence is given to the Cutting case and in the language of the San Francisco Chronicle, "Mr.C Cleve- land reiterates the blunders of Mir. Bay ards diplomatic papers by failing to dis tinguish between the mere act of publi- cation of a libel and its circulation after ii is printed. It was not for its publica- ton in Texas that Mir. Cutting was prosecuted, but for its circulation in Mexico, and it was on the strength Of this fact that the government of Diaz caused Secretary Bayard to back down and swallow his own declarations"
 It will be of special interest to the citi- zens in the remote and sparsely settled sections of the western states and terri tories whose mail. service has been ma tesially cut down and in some instances abandoned entirely by the democratic administration, to learn from the mes sage that ''at the close of the last fiscal year the expense Of transportation on star routes stood to an annual rate of cost less by over $56o, 900 than at the close of the previous year." Half million dollars saving, in expense, to great government like the United States, will strike the intelligent miner and Prospector or resident of mining camp, who has lief, family and friends in the east, while he assists in developing the re- sources of the frontier country and who is deprived of all except periodical com munication with them. on the score of democratic economy, as being some thing very small to boast of. It will also be gratifying to the above class to learn that while the government has saved $56o.oco by curtailing their pos tai facilities the residents ot the more populous centers, have had their mail facilities "correspondingly increased by the expansion of the carrier delivery conveniences and addition to the rail road mail facilities.
 Another feature of his message which will be appreciated as greatly as the above on the postal question. in the sil- Yer producing seclion of the great west,is the renewal of his recommendation of last year against the continued coinage of silver. In this connection we are happy to note, that our contemporary, while swallowing and endorsing last yesr this recommendation, without a protest of criticism, i. very evasively this year admits that most of its friends do not agree with him" While "most O: his friends do no, agree with him." how ever, there is nothing to indicate how It stands on the question itself.
 While practicins largely the time bonored tenets of the democratic party, that ''to the victors belong the spoils," and making removals on partisan grounds solely, he has the following to say in regard to civil service reform:
 "The c,vil service reform may be i'm perfect in some of its details; it may be misunderstood and opposed; it may not always be faithfully applied; charges may sometimes miscarry through mistakes; it may sometimes tremble under the as- saults of it's enemiss or languish under the misguided Zeal or impracticable friends; but 1.-the people of tbis country ever submit to the banishment of its underlying principles from the operation of their govern ment, they will abandon the surest guar anty of the safety and success of Ameri- can institutions. invoke for this reform the cheerful and ungrudsing support of this congress. l renew my recommen- dations made last year that commission- CTS be made equal to the other officers of the government, having like duties and responsibilities, and hope that such reasonable appropriations may be made as viii enable them to increase the use fulness ofthe cause ,heyhave charge eff