Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-12-16
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
AS Discussed by the Different
Papers of the United States.

hansas City Times: Mckinley is get
ting his open and shut door policies
badly mixed.
Cincinnati Times-Star: The Presidents
message is q conservative and carefully
weighed summary of recent events.
Chicago Tribune: President McKin.
ley 8 message to congress is clear, frank
statesmanlike presentation of the ma
tions affairs to date.
New York Journal: The president
would obtain more readers fol- his lit
esary efforts if he would take course
of lessons in the art of boiling down.
i'll some good newspaper office.
Philadelphia Ledger: The failure to
give due and deserved recognition in
III the message to the timely services
rendered the country by the national
relief committee is regrettable.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: Com.
prehensive in scope, able in composition
and direct in detail, the message is at
once sGate paper of exceeding inter
est and historical resume OF inca leu.
liable value.
Louisville Dispatch: 1t is very sim
pie and scarcely an interesting nara.
tiye of events familiar to the public.
Every part of it has been better told a
thousand times over by newspaper COR
respondents.
Chicago Chronicles: Mr.. Mckinley
was not elected on any issue of the war
or peace, yet as war lord he has turned
out to be great plunger and the sort
of person whom he denounced, in ef-
feet, n year ago as criminal.
Baltimore Sun: The presidents meg
sage will prove district disappoint-
ment to those who expected it would
fully outline the policy of tho admins
IN ton in regard to territorial acauisi-
tion and other important issues con-
nected with the war with Spain.
New York Sun: The word imperial
ism does not appear in his modestly
phrased record of an illustrious year in
an administration that will be forever
memorable; but the spirit of imperial
ism in the new American sense is there.
in every line of the document.
Washington Post: Many years have
passed since any president has had an
opportunity to say SO many things
stimulative of national pride and pa
triosism; and the fact that they are pre-
sented in the simple and direct manner
befitting state paper will not detract
from their intrinsic interest.
New York Press: For the first time
in the country g history there is an ex-
ecutive requisition for the standing
army-not, inJeed, entirely adequate
for the maintenance of the country's
place among the nations, but at least
not based ON a theory of the existence
of millennial calm in human strifes.
New York Times: In declining to
discuss at this time I'll government of
the future of the new possessions which
will come to us as the result of tho war
with Spaia." President Mckinley re-
nounces that leadership of public opin-
ion which our great presidents have
cherished as the noblest of their privi-
leges.
Philadelphia Press: at the end of
year momentous change and expan-
sion, the Presidents message, for the
first time in many years, looks out and
not in, and turns the attention of the
nation to the world problems of land
which has now assumed its place and
share in the conduct of the worlds in
te national affairs.
Chicago Herald: Despite its unusual
length, the message is n state paper of
remarkably succinct statement and
rapid review. 1t is only long because
it has to cover so broad field.
New Orleans Picayune: There is
nothing snowy about the President g
message this year. 1t is simply busi-
such document shou Id bo. He pro
poses nothing sensational or radical and
springs no surprises on the country
He has no apecial policy, but presents
the situation which congress will have
to consider and provide for as may be
necessary.
Baltimore Herald: Upon the whole
the presidents message will doubtless be
interpreted by the people as a pat iotic
expression of the views of their chief
magistrate. such as will be entitled to
a hearty public approval. AS will be
observed there is no revelation OF ag-
gressiveness in the presidents utteranc-
es, such as would indicate that he has a
foreign polio " to thrust upon con-
gress.
Louisville Courier Journal: The Pres
ident's message this year is one of the
longest and mo tedious documents
that ever emanated from the white
house. He seems to have thought it
necessary to give complete history Of