Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-07-26

AGRIcULTURE.
 On the question of agricultural inter ests, he says: The south, which is al- most exclusively agricultural, has shar- ed in the general prosperity of the coun- try and tbat having recovered from the loss and devastation of war, has gained so rapidly that itc total wealth IS at last the double of that which 1t possessed in 1880, exclusive of slaves. In these ex- traordinary developments the farmers see the hopeful impulse of a home mar ket and they see that the financial and revenue system enacted sInce the repub- licsn party came into power has estab- hshed and constantly expanded the home market.
 FOREIGN TRADE.
 Referring to the profits derived from the nations foreign trade says: Its profits are enjoyed to-day by 56,OOO,O00 of American freeman, and from this enjoyment no monopoly IS created. The internal competition which takes place does away with everything like monopoly, and by degrees reduces the prices of articles to the minimum of reasonable profit on the capital em- ployed It IS impossible to point to single monopoly in the United States that has been created or fostered by the industrial system, which Is upheld by the Republican party.
 DOMESTIC TRADE
 Our internal commercial exchanges are estimated by the statistical bureau of the treasury department, to be an- nually twenty tsmes as great m amount as our foreign commerce. 1t IS into this vast field Of home trade at once the creation and the heritage of the Ameri- can people, that foreign nations are striving by every device, tO enter. It Is into this field that the opponents of our present revenue system would freely admit the countries of Europe--cOuntries into whose internal trade We could not reciprOcally enter. Countries to which We should be surrendering every advant- age of trade; from which We should be gaming nothing in exchange. The Re pubhcan party has protected the free trade labor of America SO that its com pensatiOn IS larger than Is realized ID any other country. It has guarded our people against the unfair competition of contract labor from China, and may be called upon to prohibit the growth of a similar toll from Europe. The institu- tions of the United States rest upon the intelligence and virtue of the people. Suffrage is made universal as a just weapon of self protection to every citI- zen. It IS not the interest of the Re- publican party that any economic sys- tem should be adopted which involves the reduction of wages to the hard aN.vA.rN v.rat-uFfanu a1aAru hara The Republican party aims to elevate and dignity labor; not to degrade it. Nothing stands in our way but the dread Of a change in tho industrial system, which mas f55gh. such wonders in the last twenty years and which. under the power of ofincreased capital. will work still greater marvels of prosperity in twenty years to come.
 SOUTH AMERICA.
 On the South American question, he says: All international troubles m North or South America should be ad- justed by impartial arbitration, and not by arms. This project was part of the fixed policy of President Gartield's ad- ministration, and it should, in my judg- ment, be renewed. We have not im- proved our relations with Spanish Amer lea as we should and as We might have done. For more than Q generation the sympathy of these countries has been allowed to drift away from us. We should BOW make every effort to gain their frien dshIp.
 While the great powers of Europe are steadily enlarging their colonial domI- milton in Asia and Africa It Is the es- pecial province of this country to lm- prove and expand its trade with the na- tives of America.
 AFoE.
 Abiding tO the necessities and re- Quirements of the southern states, he says: The Democratic party shows It. self foe to the Southern prosperity by always invoking and encouraging pOliti- cal consolation. Such policy qnench- es the rising instinct of patriotism Tn the hearts of the southern youth. It re- wives and stimulates preIudices; 1t sub stitutes the spirit of barbarIc. vengeance for the love of peace, progress and har- mony.
 CIVIL SERVICE.
 On the question of Civil Service, MT. Blaine says: The growth of the country has continually and necessarily enlarged the civil service until 1t includes vast body of officers. The rules and methods of appointments which prevailed when | the number was smaller have been | found insufficient and impracticable,a and earnest efforts have been made to sepa- rate the great mass of ministerial off ] cers from partisan influence and per | sonal control Impartialty m the mode | of appointment to be carried on quallh- | cations, and the security of tenure to be based on faithful discharge of duty, are | the two ends to be accomplished. THE MoRMoNs-
 The Mormon question. Religious liberty is the right of every citizen ID | the Republic. Congress IS forbidden by the constitution to make any law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. | For A century, under this guarantee, Protestant. Catholic, Jew and Gentle, have worshipped God according to the dictates of conscience; but rellgious | liberty must not be perverted to the justification of Offenses agaInst the law. A religious sect is strongly entrenched m one of the Territories of the United States and is spreading rapidly into | four other ltlIltotit-' Nh4Su tA"AiA.' eN right to destroy the great safeguard and monument of social order and tO prac- tice as a religious privilege that winch is a crime punished with severe penalty in every State of the Union The claim
 of the Mormons that they are dIvinely authorized to practice polygamy should no more be admitted than the claim oi : certain heathen tribes. if they should come among us to continue the rite Ol human sacrifice. The law does mol . interfere with what a man believes; Il takes cognizance of what he does a citizen. Like others, the Mormon' . must learn that the liberty Of the m dividual ceases where the rights O ! society begin.