Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
Address of the Union Republican
Congressional Committee.

10 tie People Of tie United States i:
" lou will soon proceed to Sele;t your
representatives for a new Congress
The occasion invites us 10 submit for
your Inspection the record Of Republi-
can achievements since that party was
called TO the administration Of national
affairs. We seize the opportunity to
avow that record, not to apologize for
It. We challenge your approval, not
yoar pardon.
The obligations of government and
people, like the obligations Of servant
and master, are mutual.
The government, like the servant,
owes faithful service. But the people,
like the master, owe honest re recognition
of faithful service. Every thoughtful
employer knows that he can not with
impnnity decry flithful labor. He who
does 50 habitually will soon have no
faithful laborers. The faithful servant
will not submit 10 be treated as faith
less one. If so treated, he himself will
become faithlcss, or he will give place
to one who is fllthess.
DEMOCRATIC CRAFTSMANSHIP.
1t is thirteen years since the Repub-
lean party was first called to the ad
ministraT;ro G. the National Govern
ment. For more than thirty years pre-
yiousIy the Governments had been al
most uninterrupte lily uler Democrat
ic control. OF that control there is
hardly memory left at which the nj
ton should not blush. Seemingly it
was inspired by bit one ambition-the
bad ambition To make our foreign poll
cy as ignoble as our home policy WAS
shameless Our intercourse with Pow
ers weaker than ourselves was spirited
enough We bpIlied Austria ont Of a
! Hungarian refugee. We despoiled
Mexico Of portion Of her territory.
We demolished Greytown. We i'm
gled millions iii the ears of Spain as a
iare for Cuba and the bride was
! spmnel.
In 1854 three of our Ministers
abroad assembled at OstenI and issued
manifesto in which they declared,
. After we shall have offered Spain a
price for Cuba FAR beyond its present
value, AMI this Shall have been refusel /,
then it viii be time to consider the
question: Does Cuba in the possession
Of Spain seriously end tn-er car intern
- No r
ishek Union? Shoull this question
be answered in the Affirmative, then By
every Ilw human and divine we Shall
be justified in wrestling it from Spain
if we passes the power.
1t adds pIqnaacy to that extract to
know ta.t two Of the ambassadors wko
in 1eJ4 could think of no way Of saw
in~ our cherished Union " but to
wrcst Cuba from Spain were Pierre
Soule and John Y. Mason The third
was James Buchanan.
But during all that time, and in spite
of all that gasconade, there was not a
single naturalized citizen who could
safely revisit his birthplace, for there
vas not one whose citizenship was not
absolutely denied by the sovereign under
whose dominion he was born.
No American, native or naturalized,
coud send letter abroad except upon
onerops conditions. We had then
formed postal conventions with but
seven foreign countries.
The lowest rate of postage stipulated
ID those conventions was ten cents for
letter weighing not more than one,
half ounce. The highest rate of post
age on the same letter was thirty
cents
We tamely relinqpisheI to Great
Britain portion Of cur territory m the
northeast; another and larger nor
ton in the northwest. We described
the line agreed upon ia the northwest
so loosely that Great Britain imma3;.
ately LAID claim to large islands On our
81 lie of it. That Insulting claim was
neither resisted or admitted. It Was
compromised by permitting the claim
ant to hold armed possession of one
end Of San Juan, the most valuable of
thos. islands. while we quietly s1uatted
on the other end And while, bv sue
cassire concessions. we were constantly
adding TO the area of the CanaIas, we
stupldiy rchnquised TO their products