The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
PRESS COMMENTS.
What the New York Papers Say
About the Message.
THEY ARE NOT COMPLIMENTARY,
As Rule-The World Says the President Had
Nothing to Say and Did not Know
How to Say it

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
New YORK, Dec. q The following are
some of the New York papers comments
on the message:
THE EVENING sun.
President Harrison hiss issued his annual
message. 1t is a long one. The Ereninq Sun
prints it. Read it if you like, but it is
hardly worth it.
MORNING WORLD.
The President had nothing to say and did
not know how to say it.
THE HERALD.
The Presidents messrge does not rise
above the dull monotony Of platitude. 1t
lacks the merit of either rhetoric or logic
and will be read from courtesy but with
out interest. AS an exhibit of statesman
ship it is a serious disappointment, for it
conveys the impression that the writer had
no convictions, or thinks it impolite to ex-
press them.
THE TIMES.
The President has forgotten little and
learned nothing. He meets the Congress
in which his party provoked defeat on its
reassembling with tediously urgent ex-
hortation to remedy none of the mistakes
already made, to press forward in the same
line and trust to that providence which
the French say watches over the Ameri-
cans and fools.
One subject Mr.. Harrison was bound to
discusS-the tariff a second he has chosen
again to bring forward-the force bill. On
neither has he anything new to say.
THE SUN.
The principal thing in President Harrl-
sons message is his Jealous recommenda-
ton that the force bill should be taken up
and pressed through Congress. There is
| little need of any further argument upon
this subject. This bill is simply revoIu-
ton. Its one purpose is to continue the
| dominant party in power, and 10 this end
its promoters are willing to destroy local
| self-government to overthrow the rights Of
| citizens and of the community, and to
change republic of free elections into a
concentrated party despotism-
| This scheme should be resisted deter
minedly, mpromisingly by every Dem
ocrat. If necessary, every means of delay
and obstruction should be resorted to IN
Congress. The mischiefs that are sure to
arise from such political revolution are so
great and so grave as TO overshadow every
! other question. Whatever differences Of
opinion may exist among Democrats con-
corning other subjects, let there be unity
and cooperation concerning this. Preserve
the liberties of the people, put down the
Republican conspiracy to destroy them
THE TRIBUNE.
The message of the President is q calm,
dignifed, and able document which APP
peals to the sober thought of Americans,
and will have strong influence upon pub
lie opinion. 1t is as quiet and confident as
/ if thpra had hOpn n election 1inPp thaf in
which the President and his party were
deliberately intrusted by the people with
the charge Of the government. 1t is a mes
sage eminently fitted to recall the Repub-
lican voters of 1883 to sense of their re-
sponsibilities, and to remind them that the
national politics for which they then de-
clared deserve their unwavering support.
! THE STAR.
Fashioned after the traditional pattern
as to the subjects discussed and the order
in which they are mentioned, in literary
and forensic merit it barely reaches medic
Gritty, while politically it is purely par
tisan plea in extenuation of the course OF
the administration and the Congress which
the people nave just decisiVely condemned.
/ THE PRESS.
President Harrison's second annual mes
sage to Congress cannot fail to increase
Jne respect entertained Tor MIN Dy every
one who reads it. Conspicuous above its
completeness of detail concerning the
things that the public wants to be informed
on and equally conspicuous above the clear
headed manner in which he discusses rea
sons and makes needed distinctions, shines
the perfect integrity of the mans intention
Justice is the strong trait Of President
Harrison's character and the evident hon
esty of his guardianship of the public in
terests must strengthen him before the
country.