Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-05
Comments of the Papers on the Pres
ident's Message.
VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVE JOURNALS
Drift of the Views From the At
Iantic to the Pacific
PUBLISHED THIS MORNING.
From the New York Press.

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support for the advancement of our be-
loved country" the document before US is
| as unusually interesting as it Is ingeniously
unsatisfactory. The country is plainly and
| bluntly informed that British free trade is
directly before us, and that nothing so i'm
portant claims our attention.
The New York Times commends Mr..
Cleveland's utterance on Hawaii as an
| honorable purpose" declares the pension
reform, outlined, obviously true and
| sound" and concludes: No message that
MIR. Cleveland has sent to the national leg
islature has been more characteristics or
more sure to confirm the peoples conf
dence in his soundness of judgment than
| this. We profoundly hope that before an
other message is required the country Will
be well advanced on the lines of right
principle and sound policy which are here
laid down.
From the New York Herald.
| The dominant note of the Presidents
message, sent to Congress yesterday, is
prompt tariff revision. All the other mat
| tiers subcrdinated to this. 1t is plain to
see that Mr.. Cleveland considers the sue
| cess of this measure essential not only to
| the welfare of the country, but also the
| salvation of the democratic party, and that
nothing can jeopardiZe its success more
than the failure of democrat is to rise above
| local considerations and unite in its sup
port.
From the New York Sun.
Cleveland devoteS more space to what
he regards as excessive purchase of
| seeds by the Department of Agriculture
than to the momentous enterprise of throne
| building which he has undertaken in Ha-
wall. He devotes almost many words to
the condition of the North American In
dian tribes as to the tariff, which occupied
all of his thoughts in 1851, and which has
become. in 1893, an affair not merely of
promises, but of performance. For these
reasons, the message submitted yesterday
may fairly be criticised as unsatisfactory
in its range, II not actually evasive in its
Intention"
From the New York Tribune.
The first snow storm and the message
appropriately came together to warn people
that a hard winter was coming. In its
treatment of nearly all domestic ques
tons the message is creditable in charac-
ter. not more verbose than is usual for Mr.
Cleveland, and in the main reasonable in
it's suggestions. But the country will
judge this message. and the President HIM
self mainly by the position he has taken
regarding the question which most vitality
affects the industries and the earnings of
American workingmen.'
From the New York Recorder.
The first annual message of President
Cleveland's second administration is the
weakest and most disappointing state paper
that has come from his pen. The message
is an insult to American common sense
1t is a menace to American labor and
capital"
From the Phlladelphia North American.
After reading Mr. Cleveland's remarks
pels US to say that the President his missed
the opportunity and lamentably failed in
the discharge OF his duty.
From the Philadelphia Press.
President Clevelands message will COM
pletely diSappoint the country. Not in what
IL says. but in what it does not say, for a
! more tame, empty, inane message could
not well be framed. Congress has rarely
met with graver or more momentous ques-
| tons demanding high craftsmanship, COM
prehensive grasp and sure decision. The
country expected virile and illuminatin
discussion of these transcendant subjects
which, whether approved or not, would at
least command respect by it's vigor and
strength. Instead of such a positive and
robust treatment, we have nothing but a
feeble, rapid summary of department re-
ports. such as any chief clerk might have
made.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The President is ve'.y apt to do something
else than what is generally expected Six
years ago he startled the country by an
abrupt departure from established custom
in combining his annual message to n single
dominant topic, leaving the routine state
ment of public business to the reports of
the several departments This year. when
! IL has been assumed that his message would
contain some unusual political deliverance
he reverts to the old custom. His messa ge
is a detailed statement Of the operations
of the government and the condition of pub
lie business as he finds it.
The message Of the President to Congress
is disappointing. 1t is budget of interest
ing reCapitua tiCns of matters mainly
within the public knowledge; bat it is ex-
ceedingly barren of original -ecommenda-
| tons. The President satisfies himself with
statements of fact, leaving the initiative of
legislation to Congress. For the reasons in
support of such recommendations he does
make the reader of the message will have
to consult the department reports
From, the pbiIad lin lla Inaurrr
THE message, as a whole. is one of the
weakest papers hat ever issued from the
White House. 1t is totally devoid of cou--
age or of a policy beyond the theory of
tariff reform, and even on this topic, where
so much anticipated, the President
/ talks as IL he feared to speak his convic-
/ TONS All through the document the i'm
preston is given that the President is try
| ing to hide behind the skirts of some one
| else-to throw all the responsibility upon
| Congress-
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
President Cleveland's first annual message
| to the ffty-third Congress is especially not
! able for its comp-ehensiveness, and, in
/ respect to those more important questions
which in greater degree affect the whole
/ being of the nation. for the earnestness,
sincerity and ability with which they are
/ presented and discussed.
/ From the San Francisco Bulletin.
! 1t was reasonably expected that Mr..
| Cleveland would have something interesting
]
I ton and deportation. On the contrary
! he dismlsses it in a few brief paragraphs.
/ Even more unsatisfactory is his treatment
/ of the Hawaiian matter. What he has to
say is an absolute Withholding of infor-
nation. The offense in this message is
the ignoring of the right of Congress to
/ have any voice in the settlement of our
! foreign relations, including practically is
suing of declaration of war upon and
| subverting a recognized government.
The San Francisco Post is disappointed
because the President has failed to enunci-
ate a clear financial policy by offering n
/ substitute for the law that was abroga ted
| also because the Hawaiian matter has had
no new light cast upon it.
| The San Francisco Daily Report charges
| the President with ignoring the fact that
| the Hawaiian queen was removed by her
| own people for viola ting the constitution
she has sworn to obey. Other points in
! the message which will also give rise to
very opposite expressions of opinion the
Report says, are his sugges tions that the
strength of the United States army be de-
/ creased, that he time has come when an
preparations for the building of new ships
for the navy NAV be cut down: that the
/ United States should not NEEDLE in affairs
| of Samoa, and that the Chinese are sincere
/ in their expressed intention to obey the
registration laws.
From the Chicago Tribune
AN unusual amount of space is devoted
| by the President in his message to a state
| ment of the information contained i'm the
| department reports, and particularly to the
| relations of the government with foreign
1 Though some of thaca