Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-11

yours. your every voter, as surely as your
chief Magistrate, under the same high
sanction, though in a different sphere, ex-
ercises q public trust. Nor is this all.
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant
watch and close scrutiny of the public serv-
ants, and fair and reasonable estimate
Of their fidelity and usefulness. Thus is
the peoples will impressed upon the whole
framework of our civil polity-municipal
state and federal-and this is the price OF
our liberty and the inspira ton of our faith
in the republic.
1t is the duty of those serving the peo-
pie in public place, to closely limit public
expenditures to the actual needs of gov
eminent, economically administered, be-
cause this bounds the right of the govern
ment to exact tribute from the earnings of
labor or property of citizens, and because
public extravaganza begets extravaganza
among the people. We should never be
ashamed of the simplicity and pruden-
tial economies which are best suited
to the operation of a republican
form of government and most compatible
with the mission OF the American people.
Those who are selected for limited time
to manage public affairs are still of the peo-
pie 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
perity.
The genius of our institutions, the needs
OF our people in their home life and the at
tention which is demanded for the settle
ment and development of the resources of
our vast territory, dictate the scrupulous
avoidance OF any departure from that for
eign policy, commended by the history, the
tradition and the prosperity OF our repub-
lie. 1t is the policy of independence
favored by our position and defended by
our love OF justice and by our power. It is
the policy of peace suitable to our inter-
ests. 1t is the policy of neutrality rejecting
any share in foreign broils and ambitions
upon other continents and repelling 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 pros
perity OF all the people demand that our
finances shall be established upon such a
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 the people
from unnecessary taxation, having a due
regard to the interests OF capital invested
and workingmen employed in American in
dustries, and preventing the accumulation
OF a surplus in the treasury to tempt ex.
travagance and waste.
The care for the property of the nation
and the needs for future settlers, require
that the public domain should be protected
from purloining schemes and unlawful occu-
patton. The conscience of the people
demands that the Indians within our bor
ders shall be fairly and honestly treated as
wards of the government, and their educa-
ton and civilization promoted with view
to their ultimate citizenship; and that
polygamy in the territories, destructive OF
the family relation and offensive to the
moral sense of the civilized world, shall be
repressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced which
prohibit the emigration of serviIe class
to compete with American labor, with no
intention OF acquiring citizenship, and
bringing with them the retaining habits and
customs so repugnant to our civilization.
The people demand reform in the admin.
istration OF the government and the arpli
cation OF business principles to public af
fairs. AS a means to this end civil serv
ice reform should be ngQod faith enforced
Our citizens have the right to protection
from the incompetency of public employees
nv Ao1>A CAC1A pltiCCS oOlSly DIS CIlc ISWdIu
OF partisan service and from the corruptive
influence OF those who promise, and the
vicious methods OF those who expect such
rewards and those who worthily seek pub
lie employment have thought to insist that
merit and competency shall be recognized
instead OF party subserviency and the sur
render of honest political belief in the adj
ministation OF a government pledged to do
equal and exact justice to all men.
There should be no pretext for anxiety
touching the protection of the freedmen in
their rights or their security or the enjoy
ment Of their privileges under the constitu-
ton and it's amendments. All discussion
as to their fitness for the place accorded to
them as American citizens, is idle and I'M
profitable except as it suggests the necessi-
ty for their improvement. The fact that
they are citizens entities them to all the
rights due to the relation, and charges them
with all it's duties, obligations and respon-
sibilities.
These topics and the constant and ever
varying wants Of an active and enterprising
and the patriotic endeavor OF all who make
and execute the federal law. Our duties are
practical and call for Industrious applica-
ton, an intelligent perception OF the claims
of public office and above all u
firm determination by united action
to secure to all the people in the
land the full benefit OF the best form OF gov
eminent ever vouchsafed to man, and let
us not trust to human effort alone, but
humbly acknowledge the power and good
ness of Almighty God, who presides over
the destiny OF nations and who has at all
times been revealed in our country's his
tory; let us invoke His aid and His bless
ing upon our labOrs.
Scenes and Incidents.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Before
O'Clock fully 5000 people had congre-
gated on the broad plaza to the east
of the Capitol and on the terrace to
the west. The approaches to the build
ing, both for carriages and pedestrians,
were black with strangers going to and
from the great structure. On the
streets north of the building military
companies and societies were forming
and preparing to march to the center
of the city.
Hundreds Of people who had passed
the night in Baltimore and who had
arrived on the early morning trains
lined the thoroughfares. Members OF
political organizations, who had found
quarters for the previous night in the
smaller hotels in the vicinity of the
capitol, stood gossiping on the subject
of the day. Their conspicuous high
hats and overcoats of light or dark
and gaudy edges Of red, blue,
or purple silk, were objects of curiosity
for the stranger. An occasional
rooster design decorated the head COW
ering.
People on the east plaza stood in
groups or promenaded the length OF
the capitol. Occasionally q member