The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-14

scheme of our civil rule, from the town
meeting to the State Capitol and the Ma
tional Capitol, an yours. Your every voter,
as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under
the same high sanction, though in diff
ferent sphere, exercises public trust. Nor
is this all. Every citizen owes to the
country vigilant watch and close scruticy
Of the public servants, fair and reasona-
BILE estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.
Thus is the peoples will impressed upon
the whole framework of our civil pohty-
State, land Fedsral-and this is
the price of our liberty and the inspiration
of our faith in the Republic.
1t is the duty of those serving the people
in public places to closely limit public ex-
penditures to the actual needs Of the Gov
ernment economically administered, be-
cause this bounds the right of the Govern
ment to exact tribute from the earnings Of
labor or the property of the citizen, and
because public extravagance begets oxtrav
agance among the people. We should nev-
er be ashamed of the simplicity and pru-
Dental economies which are best suited to
the operation of q republican form of gov
ernment and most compatible with the
mission of the American people. Those
who are selected for limited time to man.
age public affairs are still of the people,
and may do much by their example to en-
courage, 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
g. our people in their home life, and the
attention which is demanded for the settle
ment and development of the resources of
our vast territory dictate the scrupulous
avoidance of any departese from that for
eign policy commended by the history,
the traditions, and the prosperity of our
Republic 11t is the policy of Independence,
favored by our position and defended by
our known love of justice and by our pow
or. It is the policy of peace suitable to
our interests. It is the policy of neutrality,
rejecting any share in foreign broils and
ambitions upon other continents and re-
pelling their intrusion here. Itis the pol
icy of Monroe and d Washington and JEFF
ferson -s Peace. commerce and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling al
l:o~roe Nth mana
A due regard for the interest and pros
perity of all the people demands that our
finances shall be established upon such a
sound and sensible basis as shall secure the
safety aud confidence of business interests
and make the wages of lahor sure and
steady; and that our system Of revenue shall
be SO adjusted as to relieve the people from
unnecessary taxation, having due regard
to the interests of capital invested and
workingmen employed in American indus
tries, and preventing the accumulation Of a
surplus in the treasury to tempt extrav-
agance and waste. Care for the property
of the Nation and for the needs of future
settlers requires that tho public domain
should be protected from purloining
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 civ
ilization promoted with view to their ul-
innate 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 immigration of servile class
to complete with American labor, with nc
intention Of acquiring citizenship and
bringing with them and retaining habits
and customs repugnant to our civilization
The people demand reform in the admin.
cation of business principles to public at.
fairs. As means to this end civil service
reform should be- in good faith enforced
Our citizens have the right TO protection
from the incompetency of public employees
who hold their places solely as the rewart
of partisan service aud from the corrupt
ing influence of those who promise and tht
vicious methods of those who expect sucf
rewards. And those who worthily seef
public employment have the right to insis
that merit and competency shall be rec
ognized instead of party subrerviency q
the surrender of honest political belief.
In the administration of Governmen
pledged to do equal and exact justice to al
men there should be no pretext for ankle
ty touching the protection Of the Freedmen
in their rights, or their security in the en-
joyment of their privileges under the Con
stitution and its amendments. All discus
sion as to their fitness for the place &C
corded to them AZ American citizens ia idl
and Improbable, except rs it suggests tn
necessity for their improvement. The fac
that they are citizens entities them to al
the rights due to that relation and charge
them with all its duties, obligations, an
responsibilities.
These topics and the constant and ever
varying wants of an active and enterpris
ing population may we'll receive the atten
ton and the patriotic endeavor Of all VII
make and execute the Federal law. On
duties are practical, and call for indus
trious application, an intelligent peroeI
ton Of the claims of public Office, anl
above all, firm discrimination, by unite
action, to secure to all the people OF th
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