Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-12-04
THE MESSAGE.

In that 1t offers no recommendation |
that is new and suggests no policy or !
legislation OF moment which has not
been fully discussed in the press and
upon the stump.
In dictlon It is clear and forcible, and
free from split infinitives,
NJ was to be expected from the vigor-
Gus pen of n university man, long
trained to the craft Of authorship.
It's general tone is that OF calm brt
high plane Of optimism. The President
easily conndcs in the abounding pros.
perity OF the time and country as the
harbinger Of its abiding with us, how
ever wrong he may he in his quiet,
though in terms disclaimcd assumption,
that its presence and continuance arc
dependent upon the success OF the
party TO which he belongs and the poll
cies which no advocates.
There is, however in this paper a
wide departure from the one Of a
year ago in respect Of the degree of
confidence with which its recommends.
tions are out forward, and the compare,
tive tamencss Of It's demcanor towards
the Congress which is TO deal with It;
what was then demanded, he is content
now to suggest, and Difference instead
OF superiority IL visible through the en-.
tire trend Of the instrument
1t seems nJain that the experience Of
the President with the first term of tais
Congress when he crossed swords with
the beet.sugar trust, has taught him
lesson, which, If not wholesome TO his
own taste, Is wholly 50 in the cstima.
tion OF Mr.. Oxnard, and that he has
thereby learned his place and how
much power he really has in the coun.
ellis Of his own party. uncharitablc
people also, no doubt will think that this
toning down process may have been in
part at least induced by considerations
pertaining to the convention and cleo,
tlon OF 1904
Last year the President was most
strenuous and insistent upon a measure
reducing the duties exactcd by our laws
from the planters of Cuba who desire
10 bring us some things which they
much need to sell and we just as much
need to buy, with the result of relief to
them and cheaper prices to MS. This he
urged was the dictate at once Of sim.
pie justice to the Cubans and of plain
advantage to our people.
That measure is still pending In this
Congress- up in the Senate for
want OF n ma ajority vote for its passage.
But the President In this message says
never a word in advocacy Of II. In,
stead, he tells Congress that he "hopes
soon" to submit reciprocity treaty
with Cuba TO effect the same general
purpose.
Yet tho President knows that while
the bill recommended no earnestly by
him last year failed to pass the Sena To-
and that n bare majority of that body
would have made It law, but was
wanting, to ratify the treaty
which he hopes soon" to present will
require n two-thirds vote of the same
Senate. 40 the much vaunted act OF
Justice to the nations ward passes into
closed incident
The tons Of the message In dealing
with the trust question IL distinctly
apologetic. They are evils in some as
spects, and yet they are good. They
ought to be attacked, provided they car
be attacked without hurting them
Remedles,--if they can be called such
are cautiously and tentatively pushe,
10 the front, with the constant reserva
tion that they must not he administered
n they are likely to make the paticn
sick, or reduce his strength, or caus,
any nausea,
When analysed they are found I,
be. under cover OF much verblage, tn
same quack nostrumS upon which W,
have had occasion to comment hereto
fore, one OF which Ia constitutions
amendment, which Is known to be n
impossible Of adoption by the requIsit
majority OF states as is the act OF Jus
tlce TO Cuba by like majority of tn
Senate.
In regard TO revision OF the tarin
the President Is more explicit. I
language which sounds very strangel,
coming as II does from an ex-memb,
OF the Free Trade club Of New Yorl
he II certain that the lusty infant {
one hundred and twenty years or 3
must yet be nursed for an indenni
period In the future. the consumir