The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-07-22

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flag, and resumption has not only
made it everywhere equal tocoin, bat
has brought into use our store of
gold and silver. The circulating
medium is more abundant than ever
before, and we need only to main
tain the equality of all our dollars,
to insure to labor and capital a meas
ure Of value from the use Of which
no one can suffer loss. The great
| prosperity which the country is now
enjoying should not be endangered
by any violent changes or doubtful
financial experiments.
In reference to our Customs laws,
a policy should be pursued which
will bring revenue to the Treasury,
and viii enable the labor and capital
employed in our great Industries to
compete fairly in our own markets
with the labor and capital Of foreign
/ producers.
We legislats for the people Of the
United States, not for the whole
world, and it is our glory that the
American laborer is more intelligent
and better paid than his foreign
competitor Our country cannot
be independent, unless its people,
with their abundant natural res0ur-
foes, possess the requisite skill, at any
time, to elOthe, arm and equip them
selves for war, and, in time Of peace,
to produce all the necessary imple-
ments of labor. ~
1t was the manifest intention of
the founders Of the Government to
provide for the common defense, not
by standing armies alone, but by
raising among the people a greater
army Of artisans, whose intelligence
and skill should powerfully contrib
ute to the glory and safety of the
Nation.
Fortunately for the interests of
commerce, there is no longer any
formidable opposition to appropria-1
tions for the improvement of our
harbors and great navigable rivers,
provided that the expenditures for
that purpose are strictly limited to
works of national Importance.
The Mississippi River, with its
great tributaries, is of such vital
Importance to 50 many millions of
people, that the safety of its naviga-
tiOn requires exceptional considera-
ton. In order to secure to the Ma
ton control Of all its waters, Presi-
dent Jefferson negotiated the pur-
chase of q vast territory, extending
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific
Ocean. The wisdom of Congress
should be invoked, to devise some
plan by which the great river shall
cease to be a terror TO those who
dwell upon its banks, and by which /.
its shipping may safely carry the in
dusttial products Of twenty-five |
millions Of people. The interests T.
Of agriculture, which is the basis of
all our material prosperity, and in
which seven-twelfths Of our popuIa- /
ton are engaged, as we'll as the in
terests of manufactures and COM
merce, demand that the facilities for
cheap transportation shall be in
creased by the use of all our great I
water courses.
The material interests of this
country, the traditions of its settle
ment, and the sentiments Of our
people, have led the Government to 1
offer the widest hospitality to emil
grants who seek our shores for new
and happier homes, willing to share /
the burdens as well as the benefits |
of our society, and intending that
their posterity shall become an undis- I
tinguishable part of our population. |
The recent movement Of the Chinese /
to our Preifc coast par5akes but lit
tie of the qualities of such an emil
grafton, either in its purposes or its
results. It is too much ike an i'm
portatiOn to be welcomed without /
restriction too much like an inva-
sion to be looked upon without so I
icitude. We cannot consent to al
low any servile labor to be intro /
dueed among US, under the guise Of
immigration. Recognizing the gravi-
ty of this subject, the present Ad-
ministratiOn, supported by Congress,
has sent to China a commission of T
distinguished citizens, for the pur-
pose Of securing such notifications
of the existing treaty as VIII prevent
the evils likely to arise from the
present situation. It is confidently
believed that these diplomatic negO-
tiations Will be successful, without
the loss of commercial intercourse
between the two Powers, which
promises q great increase Of recipro-
cal trade and enlargement Of our
markets. Should these efforts fail,
it will be the duty Of Congress to
mitigate the evils already felt, and
prevent their increase, by such re-
striCtiOns as, without violence or in
justice, will place upon a sure found
alton the peace Of our communities
and the freedom and dignity Of
labor.
The appointment of citizens to the
various executive and judicial offices
of the Government, is perhaps the
most difficult of all the duties which
the Constitution has imposed upon
tina Executive. The Convention
wisely demands that Congress shall
cooperate with the Executive De
partments in placing the civil service
on q better basis. Experience. has
proved that, with our frequent
changes Of administration, no sys-
tenn Of reform can be made effective
and permanent without the aid of
legislation. Appointments to the
military and naval service are so
regulated by law and custom as to
leave but little ground of complaint.
It may be wise to make similar regu-
latiOns by law for the civil service. /
But, without invading the authority
or necessary discretion of the Exc
cutive, Congress should devise a
method that will determine the ten
ure of Office, and greatly reduce the
uncertainty which makes the service
so uncertain and unsatisfactory.
Without depriving any officer Of his
rights as a citizen, the Government .
should require him to discharge all