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

Papers ofthe United States.
Kansas City Times: Mckinley is get
ting his open aud shut door policies
badly mixed.
Cincinnati Times Star: The Presidents
message is conservative and carefully
weighed summary of recent events.
Chicago Tribune: President McKin.
ley 5 message to congress is clear. frank
statesmanlike presentation of the ma
tions affairs TO date
New York Journal: The president
would obtain more readers foI his lit
esary efforts if he would take a course
OF lessons in the art of boiling down -
In some good ne wspaper office.
Philadelphia Ledger: The failure to
give due and deserved recognition in
in the message to the timely services
rendered the country by the national
reilef committee is regrettable.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: Com
prehensive in scope, able in composition
and direct in detail, the message is at
once sIate paper of exceeding inter
est and historical resume OF incalcu.
liable value.
Louisville Dispatch: 1t is a very sim
pie and scarcely an interesting narra-
tlye of events familiar to the public.
Every part of it has been better told n
thousand times over by newspaper cor
respondents.
Chicago Chronicle: 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 SOFT
OF person whom he denounced, in eff
feet, year ago as a criminal.
Baltimore Sun: The presidents g mes
sage will prove a district disappoint-
ment to those who expected it would
fully outline the policy of the admins
ia ton in regard to territorial acouisi-
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 i'm
an administration that will be forever
memorable; but the spirit of imperial
ism in the new American sense is there
IN every line ofthe 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
behtting state paper will not detract
from their intrinsic interest
New York Press: For the first time
in the country's 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 millenniai 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
VIII come to us as the result of the 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 a |
wear 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 a 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 a 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 showy about the President's
message this year. 1t is simply a bust
ness paper, and that is probably what
such a document shou Id bo. He pro-
poses nothing sensational or radical and
springs no surprises on the country
lie 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 pat iotic
expression of the views of their chief
magistrate. such as will be entitled to
hearty public approval. AS will be
observed there is no revelation nj ao |
gressiveness in the president 8 utteranc-
es, such as would indicate that ne has
foreign polio to thrust upon con-
gress.
Louisville Courier Journal: The Pres
ident's message this year is one of the