Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-24

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an factors-an amount which is a seri
Gus draw in every financial depression
upon our resources of specie
Cannot this condition of trade il
great part be changed? Cannot tn,
market for our products be greatly en-
larged? We have made beginning il
our effort to improve our trade relation.
with Mexico and we should not be con.
tent until similar and mutually adyan.
tageous arrangements have been sue
cessfully made with every nation Of
North and South America. While the
great powers of Europe are steadily en-.
larging their colonial domination in
Asia and Africa, it is the especial pro
vince of this country to improve anG
expand its trade with the nations oil
America. No field promises so much
No field has been cultivated so little.
Our foreign policy should be an Ameri.
can policy in its broadcast and most
comprehensive sense-a policy of peace,
of friendship, of commercial enlarg-
ment.
The name of American which be-
longs to us in our national capacity
must always exalt the just pride of pat
riotism. Citizenship of the Republic
must be the panoply and safeguard OF
him who wears it. The American citi-
zen, rich or poor, native or naturalized,
white or colored, must everywhere walk
secured in his personal and civil rights
The Republic should never accept a
lesser duty, it can never assume a
nobler one, than the protection of the
humblest man who owes it loyalty
protection at home, and protection
which shall follow him abroad, into
whatever land he may go upon lawful
errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
| recognize, not without regret, the
necessity for speaking of two sections
of our common country. But the regret
diminishes when see that the elements
which separated them are fast disap-
pearing. Prejudices have yielded and
are yielding, while a growing cordially
warns the Southern and the Northern
heart alike. Can any one doubt that
between the sections confidence and es-
TEEN are to-day more marked than at
any period in the sixty years preceding
the election of President Lincoln? This
is the result in part of time and in part
of Republican principles applied under
the favorable conditions of uniformity.
1t would be great calamity to change
these influences under which Southern
are learning to vindi-
cate civil rights and adapting them
selves to the conditions of political
tranquility and industrial progress. If
there be occasional and violent out
breaks in the South against this peace
full progress, the public opinion of the
country regards them as exceptional
and hopefully trusts that such will be
the last
The South needs capital and occupa-
ton not controversy. As much as any
part of the North, the South needs the
full protection of the revenue laws
which the Republican party offers
Some of the Southern States have al
ready entered upon career of indus
trial development and prosperity
These, at least, should not lend their
electoral votes to destroy their own flu
ture.
ANY effort to unite the Southern
States upon issues that grow out of the
memories of the war, will summon the
Northern States to combine in the as
sertion of that nationality, which was
their inspiration in the civil struggle
And thus great energies which should
be united in common industrial de-
velopment will be wasted in hurtful
e,,.;Fn Tho naO,ooratin M ptV CHI :.
self a foe to Southern prosperity by al
ways invoking and urging Southern
political consolidation. Such a policy
quenehes the rising instinct of patriot
ism in the heart of the Southern youth
it revives and stimulates prejudice; it
substitutes the spirit of barbara ven
geance for the love of peace, progress
and harmony.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The general character of the civil
service of the United States under all
administrations has been honorable
In the one supreme test-the collection
and disbursement of revenue--the record
of fidelity has never been surpassed in
any nation. With the almost fabulous
sums which were received and paid
during the late war, scrupulous integ-
rity was the prevailing rule. Indeed,
throughout that trying period, it can be
said to the honor of the American name,
that unfaithfulness and dishonesty
among civil officers were as rare as
and cowardice on the field
of battle.
The growth of the country has con-
tlnually and necessarily enlarged the
civil service, until now it includes n
vast body of officers Rules and meth
DDS of appointment which prevailed
when the number was smaller have been
found in sufficient and impracticable and
earnest efforts have been made to sep
arate the great mass of ministerial Off
GERS from partisan influence and per-
sonal control. Impartiality in the
mode or appointment to be based on
faithful discharge of duty are the two
ends to be accomplished The public
business will be aided by separating the
legislative branch of the government
from all control of appointments and
the Executive Department will be re-
lieyed by subjecting appointments to
fixed rules and thus removing them
from the caprice of favoritism. But
there should be rigid observance of the
law which gives in all cases of equal
competency the preference to the SOL
diers who Tisked their lives in defense of
the Union.
| entered congress in 1868, and in a
somewhat prolonged service | never
found it eXpedient TO request or recon-
mend the removal of a civil officer ex-
cept in four instances, and then for non
political reasons. which were instantly
conclusive with the appointing power.
The officers IN the district. appointed
by Mr.. Lincoln in 1861 upon the recon-
of my predecessor, served
as rule, until death or resignation.
| adopted at the beginning of my SER
vice the test of competitive examination
for appointments to West point, and
maintained it so long as | had the right
by law to nominate a cadet, In the
case of many officers | found that the
present law, which arbitrarily limits
the term of the commission, offered a
constant temptation to changes for
mere political reasons, have publicly
the belief that essential modi-
fication of that law would be, in many
advantageous.
Ny observation in the Department
Of State confirmed the conclusions
Of nv legislative experience. and i'm