The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-14
cLEvELAnp.s MESSAGE.
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 It Is the presidents own message. II has the recognized Groverian earmarhA Chicago Tribune
 The message of the president to con gress Is budget of interesting recap tulations of matters mainly within the public knowledge, but 1t Is exceedingly barron of original ecommendations- - Philadelphia Record.
 The message. as @ whole, is not up to the standard of Mir. Cleveland's previ- ous messages It lacks the ring of con- viction and the impression of earnest- nesa Mir. Cleveland seems to be losing his grip. indianapolis Journal.
 The Hawaiian matter Is destined to make trouble for the administration, and Mir. Cleveland appears to have a foreboding of this. It is also evident from his language that he looks for some opposition in his party to the tariff bill in its present shape. --St Louis Globe Democrat
 Indignant resentment of his dicta- torial tendency Is certain to be vented in some exceedingly caustic criticism during the present session His mes- sage and his administrative acts will be handled without gloves by leading democrats as well as by protesting re- publicans Boston Traveller
 The message Is totally devoid of cour- age or of a policy beyond the theory of tp PtH where so much was attempted, the president talks as If he feared to speak his convictions All through the doc ument the impression Is given that the president Is trying to hide behind the skirts of some one else-to throw all the responsibility upon congress- --Phila- delphia Inquirer
 The first snowstorm and message ap- propriately came together to warn people that hard winter was coming. In It's treatment of nearly all domestic questions the message is creditable in character, not more verbose than is usual for Mir. Cleveland, and, in the main, reasonable in it's suggestions But the country will judge this mes- sage and the president himself mainly by the position he has taken regarding the question which most vitally af. fleets the industries and eaSnings of American workmen. Y. Tribune.
 There Is peculiar touch in the rather ponderous conclusion with re- gard to further currency Legislation that as the administration does not know what to do we had better not do anything more just at present And the Hawaiian part of the message has the interesting quality of careful ab- stinence from anything as to what is going to be done. It does not matter to the presidential mind that the tariff bill denies and reverses the expert in. vestigations and deliberate judgments of his best advisors eight years ago This is more creditable to the constitu- tional hrmness. sometimes called ob- stinacy, of the president than to his in- telligence. Pitts burgh Dispatch.
 Shorn of the usual cant about econ omy, of the authors scruples about "a generous and confding people," his barren solicitudes for many of our people engaged in hard struggle for the necessities of lifs,' and his egotist- ical assurances of ''my willing sup. port" for the advancement of "our beloved country" the docu- ment before us is unusually un- interesting as 1t is ingeniously unsatis- factory. The country is plainly and bluntly informed that British free trade is directly before us and that nothing so important claims our attention. For the president of the United States to call our glorious home market narrow shows the confined range of his own vision and the narrow scope of his own information.--N. Y. Press.
 Upon the tariff Mir. Cleveland very heartily indorses the Wilson bili, dwelling emphatically upon the alleged advantage to the manufacturers from free raw materials As for the effect of the measure on wages, MT. Cleve- land, in cold-blooded way, tells the workingmen that their intelligence will Head them quickly to discover that their steady employment permit ted by free raw materials is the most important factor in their relation to tariff Legislation" Mir Cleveland ig- nores his former declarations that in tariff reform due regard must be paid to the welfare of labor. Now he cares nothing for the inevitable read justment of wages scales if the measure he in- dorses is passed. Minneapolis Journal
 Like all of MT. Cleveland's messages this document is encyclopedia. The substance of the reports of each of the cabinet officers is given and the whole forms creditable and valuable state- ment of the position and needs of the country to-day. But the gist of the message lies in its utterances on the Hawaiian problem, the treasury pro- gramme, the tariff bill and the reform of the civil service. Upon all these points save the last the presidents language is diplomatic rather than positive. vague rather than exact. One completes perusal of the document with some doubt as to the presiden tial inten tions toward Hawaii, questioning whether Mir. Cleveland really advo- cates the imposition of an income tax or approves in full the principle of the Wilson bill. But On that great and vital issue the nermanence of iohS in