Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-04
WHAT THEY THINK OF IT.
Newspaper Comment on the
 Presidents Message.
GREAT MANY SHADES OF OPINION

GREAT MANY SHADES OF OPINION Some Say 1t Is Great Paper, and Will
 Inspire Every Reader with Profound Ad- miration-O.hers Say It Is Stale, Plati- tudinous and Extremely Amusing. BALTIMORE, Dec 4-The Sun says: ''Mr. Cleveland writes with the authority and power of a man whose conviction are thor ough and whose information is full and with that air of confidence which springs from the consciousness that the truth, like other great forces, continues to move on and grow, notwithstanding the efforts of heretic politicians to destroy it. Altogether the message is exceedingly full and well written. It is fitting supplement to the able state papers President Cleveland has given the country, and of no public servant, in this generation at least, can it be more truly said than of himself that he has constantly guarded the rectitude of his intentions, main tained unsullied his love of country and with unselfsh purpose striven for the public good"
 Regarding the message The American says: ''The message lacks the vigor, spirit and in- dividuality heretofore conspicuous in his official writings and conveys the impression that the president has suddenly tired of his duties and has relaxed his grip upon the helm of the old ship of state. He nowhere rises above the commonplace except in his introduction, which is a labored, pessimistic vail over his defeat in November, and 8 despairing appeal to his scattered partisans to rally under the old flag of free trade and save the country from imaginary perils not suggested by existing condition"
 i BOSTON, Dec. 4.-The Journal (Rep) says: "We grieve to say it of the president of the United States, of whom, by reason of his high office, it would be pleasant to speak with respect, but the earlier portions of this message are tinctured with a demagogueism which is unworthy of the chief executive of this great people, and which, so far as it is accepted by foreigners as a statement of facts, is untrue and hbelous"
 The Herald Qnd) says: "The message, in the consideration of controverted questions, has in it the qualities of frankness and cour- age which have distinguished President Cleve- lands entire public life, and it will be found to be throughout statesmanhke as well as patriotic document"
 The Globe Oeml says: "President Cleve- land stands as the foremost representative of that fairer distribution of the products of labor which is the ideal and object of all labors most intelligent friends and leaders"
 The Advertiser (Rep) refers to the message as Hong and stale homily, good portion of it in the vein of Herr Most" and says: 'It scarcely deserves serious attention, except as
 being in itself the most striking indication of the national degeneracy and decay which it discovers"
 CHICAGO, Dec. 4-The Herald (Dem) says:
 ''There is not a passage in this important and significant state paper but impresses the country with a sense that Grover Cleveland, as president, was the right man in the right place"
 The Times Dem): ''Many millions of peo- } pie, reading this last state paper of Cleve- lands, will find themselves deeply regretting the failure to re-elect him to the presidencyn The News Ind. Rep): "None but hide
 bound partisan can fail to be aroused to ad-
 miration of the man who, in the hour of
 political defeat, can still keep his rudder true and absolutely suppress all personal feeling in his last official utterance If a Democrat, , he must be proud of the rugged statesman ship and earnest striving for the best inter ests of the country which marks every line If Republican, he can do not less than hope that his chosen chief may come as we'll out l of the fray, with as heroic port and un- daunted mien in 1892 as Cleveland in the 5 closing days of 1SSS.n
 , The Tribune (Rep.): "The message contains l neither thoughts or suggestions, except T on the tariff question, where the president
 has, in the past year, made prodigious
 stride from tariff reform to naked, absolute
 J desires at least one more round before he will acknowledge himself whipped" 3 The Inter-Ocean Rep): "The message con- r trasts sharply with the policy adopted year ago, when the president could think of noth- 3 ing but the tariff" On that question The l Inter Ocean comments: That part of his t message might have been written by Manton 7 Marble Joseph Medill, Henry Watterson or r any other free trader, accustomed to think, pen in hand. In fact The New York World,
 Louisville Courier-Journal and Chicago
 Tribune have said substantially the same
 thing as one finds in this message over and
 over again. and they were stale before they V said them the first time"
 INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4-The Journal says:
 ''The solemn and ponderous way in which the president begins by referring to the dan
 gers that threaten the government at the be- ginning of its second hundred years of na- . tional existence, and then lapses into chronic :, platitudes about the tariff and surplus, seems o like a great reach after something states manlike. It only attains to nlischevious
 demagogy, for that is the size of his talk
 about the growth of classes, the gulf between
 employers and employees, the exactions of , capital the wrongs of labor, etc.
 II II ''In all this jeremiad about the decadence 'i of patriotism and morals there is not sound ? principle nor healthy idea. No president has . ever before roundly lectured the American a people for their alleged neglect of duty, or SC Il Il plainly appealed to class interests and preju- 0 dices in support of a pet policy"
 Comments of the London Papers.
 LONDON, Dec 4.-The Post, commenting 'f on President Cleveland's message to the 1T American house and senate, says that if the n Americans are really inclined to resume n negotiations with view to a settlement of e the Canadian fisheries question they will find d the English ministers willing to meet them. n The Daily News says: ''We would Nxgret n President Clevelands acrimony with refer
 ence to the Sackville incident much more if
 it were not for the fact that Lord Salisbury
 set the example. MT. Cleveland evidently 70 possesses Salisbury's bitterness of tongue % but otherwise his message is a great docu l- ment."
 y The Chronicle thinks that Mr.. Cleveland 'e uses strong, but, nevertheless, true language of on the subject of protection
 Milan and Natalie.