New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-05
WHY THIS SAD PESSIMISMP
REASONS FOR THE PRESIDENTS GLOOM.
HIS LATEST AND PROBABLY LAST MEssAGE'
SEVERELY CRITICISED BY MANY CITIZENS

| HIS LATEST AND PROBABLY LAST MEssAGEi
SEVERELY CRITICISED BY MANY CITIZENS
In view OF the expressions of surprise which wcrc
heard on every hand yesterday regarding inc se'uc"
gloom and other peculiares OF President Cieveland
message. a Tribune reporter obtained inc ioip""s
| opinions on the document from prominent citizens:
| A. r. whitney-Thc message is bid for anarchy.
II s simply absurd for man to talk about monopoly
who has in his Cabinet member Of family whose
yearly family income is In the neighborhood o'
OK 900 600 He shows by the message that he is IN
sincere in all his previous professions OF fondness ior
the wagcearners and that he is now trying to an
tagonize labor and capital No intelligent aoorng man
will be deceived by It, for they proved that they Ane"
who their real friends were by their votes at the last
election.
Colonel S. V. r. Cruger-I have not had time 10
rad IN. massage as carefully would likc TO, but
q does not strike me as very staiesmanke document
In view of the verdict of the people OF s country al
the last election tho Presidents remarks as 10 'hc
sufrcrIncs of the people under protective tariff
seem rather Inappropriate
stenben n ElkIns-The election is over, and do
not sneak of the message from tho standpoint of p
p.rtisan II is as an American citizen that deeply
recro, that the President SHOULD feel himself called
upon TO write such a message 1t Is agreed by many
of the Presidents friends whom met to-day that the
Is dangerous and mschevous in its tendencies
IL Is an unwarrantable and unjust attack upon capital
Coming from any ordinary iHih ilo sOaH'"e"o %
pressed I'm the document would attract. widespread
attention but coming from the chief executive OF
the Nation they are endowed with an Importance
which cannot be overcsma.el. Other nations
hostile 70 republican institutions will be TO point
10 many of the statements In 1t as unqualified coz
domination of the Institutions of this country by the
highest authority in the land. and this is not the
worst effect fear that the unreasoni1g ignorance
of anarchy will seize upon many OF It's statements
as justification of those infamous doctrines and the
relations between capital and labor Will be further
and more dangerously strained Every man who
has had tho industry work and the thrift TO accumu-
late some money is extent capitalist my ne
should be frOwned upon for seeking TO increase ms
we'll being by q fair employment of his money do
not understand IL is painful 10 me TO Make tnesc
comments for l would have much preferred 10 praise
President Cleveland for his bioad Amerlcanisl man q,
to speak as / do. AS said before, the eiecuon Is
over and have no grudge against him.
E.hu Root-Eloction Is o,cr ana IL Is no USE W
add insult injury, ho0i contumey on NC u0"ci
head of misfortune. The composition OF thc 20 u, u
mont shows an attempt at phllosophic reasoning by
who is as far from Rhlosophc Iarne o.
mind as IT is possible to bc. The result thereoie'
is which is false IN tore laisc III roaSoi'
ing, and false all the way through ,,,., -,
Lc Grand D. Cannon-U is simple eXmpuon OF
spleen by the ll-regulaed mind of disappointed man.
Edward Mitchell-It is exuberant IN NefuAse ~
From beginning to end It is illogical uninielgible AMI
abounds In his characteristic phrases, when nave
speci0us appearance of great wisdom but IN eealn 70
whose meaning no two persons can De ounu ~ 49,
words tho communism of combined wee!lh ana
capital. AMI TIE citadel of rule They contain no
new truth nor do they express any sounu ola oh IN
are the sophOmOrc oufgvings of narrow -mlnuod anu
ignorant man. The message closes his political career
In my opinion, and destroys us chances LOT inc Deho
cratic nomination In '92 If he ever had any