Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-03-12

advantages, compensation will be
found in the assurance that
thus the common interest is subserved
and the general welfare advanced. In
the discharge of my official duty shall
endeavor to be guided by just and I'M
strained construction of the constitution
a careful observance of the distinction
between the powers granted to the fed
eral government and those reserved TO
the states or TO the people, and by a
cautious appreciation of those func-
tons 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 defend the constitution of
the United States only assumes the sol
emn obligation which every patriotic
citizen, on the farm, IN the workshop,
in The busy marts Of trade, and every
where, should share with him. The
constitution which prescribes his oath,
my countrymen, is yours; the govern
ment you have chosen him to admins
ter for a time is yours; the suffrage
which executes the will of freemen His
yours: the laws and entire scheme of
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to the state capitols and the national
capitol, is yours. Your every voter as
surely as your chief magistrate. under
the same high sanction, though in q
different sphere, exercises a public
trust. Nor is this all. Every citizen
owes to the country a vigilant watch
and close scrutiny of its public servants
and fair and reasonable estimate of
their fidelity and usefulness. This is
the peoples will impressed upon the
whole framework of our civil poiitv-
municipal, state and federal and this
is the price of our liberty and the III
SEPARATION of our faith in the republic.
IL is the duty of those serving the
people in public places 10 closely limit
public expenditures 10 tho actual
needs of tho government economically
administered. because this bounds the
right of the government 10 exact trib-
ute from the earnings of labor or the
prosperity OF the citizen, and because
public extravaganza begets extrava-
gance among the people. We should
never be ashamed of the simplicity and
prudential economies which are best
suited TO the operations of Republican
form Of government and most compati-
bic with the mission of tho American
people. Those who arc selected for u
limited time to manage public affairs
are still OF the people, and may do
much by their example to encourage,
consistently with the dignity of their
official functions, that plain way OF life
which among their fellow citizens aids
integrity and promotes thrift and pros
peIity. The genius Of our institutions,
the needs of our people in their home
life. and tho attention which is demand
ed for the settlement and development
of the resources Of our vast territory
dictate the scrupulous avoidance of any
departure from that foreign policy com.
men3ed by the history, the traditions
and the prosperity of our Republic. 1t
J is the policy of independence favored
by our position and defended by our
known love of justice and by our power.
J 1t is the policy of peace suitable to our
interests. 1t is the policy of neutrality,
rejecting any share in foreign broils and
, ambitions upon other continents, and
rerelling their intrusion here. 1t is the
policy of Monroe, and Of Washington.
and of Jefferson-''peace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none"
SOUND FINANCIAL BASIS.
A due tegard for the interests
and prosperity of all the people de.
mands that our finances shall be es-
tablished upon such sound and sensi-
BILE 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 the
|, people from unnecessary taxation, hav.
! ing due regard to the interests of
capital invested and workingrnen en-
ployed in American industr les, and
preventing the accumulation of sur
plus in the treasury to tempt extrava-
, giant waste. Care for the property OF
the nation. and for tho needs of future
settlers, requires that The pu bic domain
should be protected from purloining
schemes and unlawful occupation.
, INDIANS, PoLYGAMY AND CHINESE.
The conscience of the people de-
mand that the Indians within our
boundaries shall be fairly and honestly
, treated as wards of the government and
: their education and civilization promot.
/ ed with view to the their ultimate
citizenship, and that polygamy in the
| territories destructive of the family re-
lation and offensive to the moral sense
of the civilized world shall be repressed.
TIE laws should be rig;dly enforced
which prohibit the immigration 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 govern.
mont and the application of business
principles to public affairs. As means
TO this end, civil service reform should
be iD good faith enforced. Our citizens
have the right TO protection from in
competency of public employees who
hold their places only rs the reward Of
partisan service, and from the corrupt
ing influence 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 instead of party subser-
viency or the surrender of honest
political belief.
FOR THE CoLORED BROTHERS
In tho administration of govern
ment pledged to do equal and exact
justice to all men, there should DO no
pretext or anxiety touching the pro.
lection of tho freedman in their rio hts