Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31

trous to the mechanics and workingmen
of the United States. Wages are unjustly
reduced when an industrious man Is not
able by his earnings to live in comfort.
educate his children, and lay by sufficient
amount for the necessities of OLD age. The
reduction of wages inevitably consequent
upon throwing Dur home market open TO
the world would deprive them of the power
TO do this. This would prove q great ca
lamitv TO our country. It would produce
conflict between the poor and the rich,
and in the sorrowful degradation of labor
would plant the seeds of public danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed
to maintain lust relations between ia3or
and capital, guarding with care the rights
of each. A conflict between the two has
slWay been in the past, and will lead In
the future to the injury OF both. Labor
is indispensable to the creation and
profitable use of capital and capital
increases the efficiency and value of labor.
Whoever arrays the one against the other
is an enemy of both. That poll " IS Wlsest
and best which harmoniZes the two on the
basis of absolute justice. The Republican
party has protected the free LABOR OF Amer
lea 90 that it's compensation is larger than
is realized in most any other country. 1t
has guarded our people aea inst the unfair
competition of contract labor from China,
and may be called upon to prohibit sim
liar evil from Europe. 1t is obviously un-
for cheap labor in foreign countries to the
| hurt and disparagement of the labor of
American citizens. Such policy, like that
which would leave the time and other con-
ditions of home labor exclusively in the
control of the employer, Is injurious to all
parties, not the least so to the unhappy per
sons who are made subjects Ofthe contr act.
The institutions of the United States rest
upon the intelligence and virtue of all the
people. Suffrage is made the universal, but
/ al
Izen.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
! developments. We are at peace with the
/ world, at peace upon sound basis with no
unset led questions of sufficient magnitude
to embarTass or distract US. Happily re-
moved by our geographical position from
| participation or interest in those questions
| of dynasty or boundary which so frequent
| ly disturb the peace of Europe, we are left
to cultivate friendly relations with all and
are free from the possible entanglements in
the quarrels of any. The United States has
no cause and no desire to engage in a con-
| fict with any power on earth, and we may
rest in assured confidence that no power
desires to attack the United States. With
the Nations ofthe Western Hemisphere we
| should cultivate closer relations, and for
our common prosperity and advancement
we should invite them all to Join us in an
| agreement that for the future all Inter
national troubles in North or South Amer
ica shall be adjusted by impartial arbitra-
ton and not by arms. This project was
part of the fixed policy of President Gar
fields administration, and it should in my
Judgment, be renewed. Its accomplish
ment on this continent would favOrably
affect the nations beyond the sea, and thus
powerfully contribute at no distant day to
universal acceptance of the philanthrOpic
and Christian principle of arbitration. The
effect even of suggesting it for the Spanish
| American States has been most happy, and
has increased the confidence of those peo-
pie in our friendly disposition. It fell to
my lot as Secretary OF State, in June 1881,
| to quiet apprehension in the Republic of
Mexico by giving the assurance in all Off
| cial dispatch that there is not the faintest
desire in the United States for territorial ex-
! tension south of the Rio Grande The
boundaries of the two Republics have been
establishedin conformity with the best ju-
rsdictiOnal interests OF both. The line of
demarkatiOn is not merely convention, it is
more. 1t separates the Spanish-American
people from Saxon-American people. It
| divides one great nation from another with
| distinct and national inality.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
recognize, not without regret, the neces-
sity of speaking of two sections of our COM
mon country, but the regret diminishes
when see the elements which separated
them are fast disappearing. The preju-
r
| a growing cordially warns the Southern
and Northern heart alike. Can any one
doubt that between the two sections conf
dence and esteem are not to-day more
| marked than at any period in the sixty
years proceeding the election of President
Lincoln? This is the result, part of time
and part of Republican principles, applied
under the favorable conditions of Uniform
ity. It would be greatcaIamity to change
these influences, under which the Southern
| COmmOnwealths are learning to vindicate
civil rights and adopting themselves to the
conditions of political tranquility and in
dustrial progress.
THE MORMON QUESTION.
| Religious liberty is the right of every
| citizen of the Republic. Congress is for
| hidden by the Constitution to make any law
respecting the establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
| For century, under this guarantee Pro-
testant and Catholic, Jew and Gentle, have
wOrshiped God according to the dictates of
| conscience. But religious liberty must not
he perverted to the justification of offenses
| against the law. A religious sect strongly
! entrenched in one of the Territories of the
United States, and spreading into form in
other Territories, claims the right to destroy
the great safeguard and monument of social
| order, and to practice as a relig-
lous privilege that which is crime,
| punished with severe penalties
in every State of the United States. The
| sacredness and unity of the family must be
| preserved as the foundation OF all civil gov
| ernments, as the source of orderly admins
tratiOn, as the surest guarantee of moral
| pu ity. The claim of the Mormons that
| they are divinely authorized to practice
| poIygamy should no more be admitted than
the claim of certain heather tribes if they
should come among us, to continue the rite
Of human sacrifice. The law does not in
terfere with what a man believes. It takes
] of hat he n Aao fI,a
MOrmons are entitled to the same civil
rights as others, and to these they must be
confined. PoIygany can never receive Ma
tiOnal sanction or liberation by admitting
the community that upholds it as a Staten
the United States