The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-03-14

life, and the attention whish is de-
manded for the statement and de-
velopment of the resources of our
vast territory, dictate the serupu-
lous advoidance ST any departure
from that foreign policy commend
ed by history in the traditions and
the prosperity of our republic; it
is the policy of independence fa-
vored by our position and defend.
ed by our known love of justice
and by our power; it is the policy
of peace suitable to our interests; /;
it is policy of neutrality, reject
ing any share in foreign broils
and ambitions upon other conti-
nents and repelling their intrusion
here; it is the policy of Monroe
and Washington and Jefferson /;
"Peace, commerce, and honest
friendship with all nations, entang-
ling alliances with none.n A due
regare for the interests and pros
perity of all people demand that
our finances shall be established
upon such sound and sensible
basis as shall secure the safety and
confidence of business interests
and make the wages of labor sure
and steady, and that our system of
revenue shall be so adjusted as to
relieve hepeole from unnecessary
taxation, paying due regard to
the interests of capital invested
and workingmen employed in
American industries and prevent
ing the accumulation of a surplus
in tho treasury to tempt extrava-
gance and waste; care for the
property of the nation and for the
needs of future settlers requires
that the public domain should be
protected from purloining schemes
and unlawful occupation; the con-
science of the people demands that
the Indians, within our boundaries,
snail be fairly ahd honestly treated
as wards of the government, and
their education aud civilization
promoted with o view to their cit
izenship. and that polygamy in the
territories is destructive of the
family relation and offensive to the
moral sense of the civilized world,
aud shall be repressed; that the
laws should be rigidly enforced
which prohibit the immigration of
q scrvile class to compete with
American labor with ne inten-
tien Of acquiring citizenship and
bring with them and retaining hab-
its and customs repugnant to our
civilization.
In the discharge of my official
duty, shall endeayor to be guided
by just and unstrained construc-
tion of tho constitution, a careful
observance of the distinction be-
tween the powers granted to the
Federal government, and those re-
served to the States or to tho peo.
pie, and by cautious apprecia-
tion of these functions, which by
the constitution and laws have
been especially assigned to the
executive branch of the govern
ment. But he who takes the oath
to-day to preserve, protect and de-
fend the constitution of the United
States only assumes the solemn
obligation which every patriotic
citizen on the farm, in the work.
show, in the busy marts of trade
and everywhere should share with
him. The constitution which pre-
scribes his oath, my countrymen
is yours; the government you
have chosen him to administer for
time is yours; the suffrage which
executes the will of freemen is
yours; the laws and the entire
scheme of our civil rule from the
town meeting to the State capitol
and the national capitol is yours
and every voter, as surely as your
chief magistrate, under the same
high sanction, though in i different
sphere, exercises public trust
Nor is this all. Every citizen
owes to the country a vigllant
watch and close scrutiny of Its
public servants and fair and
reasonable estimate of their fidel
ity and usefulness. Thus is the
peoples will impressed upon the
whole framework of our civi
polity, municipal, State and FEEDER
al. This is the price of our liberty
and the inspiration of our faith in
the republic.
The people demand reform il
the administration of the govern
ment and the application of bust
ness principles to public affairs
AS a means to this end civil service
reform should be in good faith en-
forced; our citizens have thu
right to protection from the ineom
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