News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-12


needs of our people in their home life
and the attention which is demanded
for the settlement and development of
the resources of our vast territory,
dictate the scrupulous avoidance of
any departu from that foreign policy
commended by the history. the tradi-
tions and tie prosperity of our re-
public. 1t is the policy of indepen-
dence favored by our position and de-
tended by our known love of justice
and by our power, 1t is the policy
of peace suitable to our interests. 1t
is the policy of neutrality, rejecting
any share in foreign broils and amni-
tons upon other continents, and re-
polling their intrusion here. 1t is the
policy of Monroe and Washington
and jefferson. ''Peace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations,
entanglIng alliances with none"
A due regard for the interests and
prosperity of all the people demand
that our finances shall be established
upon such sound and sensible basis
us shall secure the safety and conf
dence 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 the people
from unnecessary taxation, having a
due regard to the interests of capital
invested and workingmen employed
in American industries, and prevent
ing the accumulation of surplus in
The treasury, to tempt extravaganza
and waste.
Care for the property of the nation
and for The needs of further settlers
requires that the public domain
should be protected from purloin NC
schemes and unlawful occupation.
The conscience of the people demands
that the Indians within our boundaries
shall be fairly and honestly treated
as wards of the government and their
education and civilization promoted
with a view to their ultimate citizen
ship, and that polygamy in the terri
tories, destructive OF the family rela-
tons and offensive to the moral sense
of the civilized world, shall be re-
pressed. The laws should be rigidly
enforced which prohibit the imigra-
ton of a servile class to compete
with American labor with no intention
Of acquiring citizenship, and bringing
with them and retaining habits and
customs repugnant to our civilization.
The people demand reform in the
administration of the government and
the application of business methods
to public affairs. AS means TO this
end civil-service reform should be in
good faith enforced. Our citizens
have the right 10 protection from the
incompetency of public employees who
hold tueir place solely as the reward
of partisan service, and from the cor
rupting influence of those who prom
Use and the vicious methods of those
who expect such rewards, and those
who worthily seek public employment
have the right to insist that merit and
competency shall be recognized in
stead of party subservency or the sur
render of honest political belief.
In the administration of govern
ment pledged to do equal and exact
justice TO all men there should be no
pretext for anxiety touching the pro-
lection Of the freedmen in their right
or their security in the enjoyment of
their privileges under the constitution
and its amendments. All discussions
as to their fitness for the place &C
corded them as American citizens is
idle and Improbable, except as it
suggests the necessity for their i'm
proyement. The fact that they are
citizens entities them TO all the rights
due to that relation and charges them
with all its duties, obligations and re-
sponsibilities.
| These topics and the constant and
fever varying wants of an active. and
enterprising population may well re-
ceive the attention and the patriotic
endeavor of all who make and exc
cute the federal law. Our duties are
practical and call for Industrious APP
plication, an intelligent perception of
the claims Of public office. and above
all firm determination by united ac-'
tiou to secure to all the people of the
land the full benefits of the best form
| of government ever vouchsafed to
man. And let us not trust to human
effort alone, but humbly acknowledge
ing the power and goodness of AL
mighty God, who presides over the
destiny Of nations and who has at all
times been revealed in our country's
history, let US invoke his aid and his
blessings upon our iabors.