The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-15
cLEvELAND.s MESSAGE
Opinions of Prominent Republican Jou1
malls on tho Paper.


malls on tho Paper.
II Is the presidents own message. /
has the recognized Groverian earmarks
Chicago Tribune.
The message of the president TO con
gress is budget Of interesting recap
!, tulations Of matters mainly within tn
! public knowledge, but 1t Is exceedingl,
barren of original recommendations
Philadelphia Record
The message. as q whole. Is not ND {,
the standard of Mr.. Cleveland's previ
GUS messages 1t lacks the ring Of con
viction and the impression of earnest
ness Mr.. Cleveland seems to be losing
his grip.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Hawaiian matter Is destined te
make trouble for the administration
and Mr.. Cleveland appears to have a
foreboding of this. 1t is also eviden,
from his language that he looks TO,
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 we'll as by protesting re-
publicans.-B Boston Traveller.
The message is totally devoid of cour-
age or of policy beyond the theory of
tariff reform. and even on this topic,
where SO much was attempted, the
president talks as II 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 an.
propriately came together to warn
people that hard winter was coming.
In its treatment Of nearly all domestic
questions the message is creditable in
character, not more verbose than il
usual for Mr.. Cleveland, and, in the
main. reasonable in its 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 vitality af.
fects the industries and earnings of
American workmen.-N. 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 abb |
stinence from anything as to what is
going to be done. 1t does not matter |
to the presidential mind that the tariff
bill denies and reverses the expert in.
designations and deliberate judgments
OF his best advisors eight years ago
This Is more credita BILE to the constitu-
tlonal frmness, sometimes called OBJ
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 contiding people," his
barren solicitudes for many of our
people engaged in hard struggle for
the necessities of life" and his erotist.
ical assurances of my willing sup
port for the advancement of
our beloved country" the doom
ment before us is unusually nm.
as 1t is ingeniously unsatis-
factory. The country is plainly and
oluntly informed that British free trade
is directly before US and that nothing
so important claims our attention. For
the president of the United STATES tn
call our glorious home market narrow
shows the confined range of his own
vision and the narrow scope of his own
nfcrmation.-N. Y. Press.
Upon the tariff Mr.. Cleveland very
heartily Endorses the Wilson bill.
iwelling emphatically upon the alleged
advantage to the manufacturers from 1
rec raw materials. As for the effect
II the measure on wages, Mr.. Cleve-
and, in cold-blooded way, tells the V
that their intelligence a
will lead them quickly to discover P
hat their steady employment permit b
ed by free raw materials is the most b
factor in their relation to b
ariff legislation" Mr.. Cleveland ip- "
ores his former declarations that in t.
arlH reform due regard must be paid q
the welfare of labor. Now he cares b
othing for the inevitable readjustment W
I wages scales if the measure he in ii
orses is passed. Minneapolis Journal. W
Like all of Mr.. Clevelands messages n
MS document is encyclopedia. The u
Instance OF the reports of each of the u
ablnet officers is given and the whole
'rms a creditable and valuable state.
ent of the position and needs of the III
'untry to-day. But the gist of the DIS
essage lies in its utterances on the VI
awallan problem, the treasury pro- " -,
-amme, the tariff bill and the reform III
the civil service. Upon all these al al
'lnts save the last the presidents ]
nguage is diplomatic rather than 'e
'sltive, vague rather than exact. One GU
mpletes perusal OF the document Nj
18th some doubt as to the presidential
tentions toward Hawaii, questioning ,Ju
neither Mr.. Cleveland really advo-
ties the imposition of an income tax
approves in full the principle OF the st
ilson bill But on that great and Ju
tai issue, the permanence of jobs in tn
e public service, Mr.. Cleveland is an
and uncompromising. ca
his own novel and original phrase an
reform lis well suited to DO
is mundane sphere"-which is GER pc
lnly more than can be said of certain tul
her principles of Clevelandesoue SUI
isesmanship.-C Times Dem.l. ra
TAKE FIRST PLACE. ,
MICHIGAN is first in copper, salt and an
nber, second in iron, third in sheep, Nc