Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

employed therein with the necessary
safeguards for their physical, mental
and moral Well-belng.
That stringent laws should be passed
for the improvement Of the sanitary
condition of the homes Of working
men ia cities.
That we recommend legislation to
foster the agricultural and dairy
interests Of the State, such as will
prevent the ad~ulteration of articles of
food.
That we favor the continuance of
the railroad commission upon a non
partisan basis.
That in the interest of cheap trans
portation for the country and of re-
duced taxation for the people of the
State, we declare in favor of a strong
national government appropriation to
assist in the improvement Of the locks
and the deeping of the channel Of the
Erie canal under State control.
That the improvement in the sys-
TEN of taxation commenced by the re-
cent Republican legislature, under
which large sums have been collected
from sources which previously escaped
taxation, should be perfected and ex-
tended 80 that the burden may fall
equally upon all classes of property.
We condemn the hypocricy of the
Democratic party in pledging itself be-
fore election to civil service reform,
and after election denouncing through
its press and Its teachers the civil ser
vice act as unconstitutional, while
the national administration removes
tried and faithful public
servants and replaces them with per-
sons whose only recommendations is
active and in some instances disrepu-
table political work.
We denounce the hypocritical pre-
tense under which faithful Republican
officers are removed on the plea Of
offensive partisanship, while such men
as Higgins, Thomas, Throop, Chase,
Pillsbury, Acquila, Jones and others,
some of whose names appear upon
the prison records of the country,
and whose recommendation is
political ~partisanship, are appointed
IN their place. While removing else
where, on the ground of "Offensive
Pa~rtisanship," Republicans who edit
newspapers, the national administra-
ton continues in a high judicial office,
in the city of New York, a prominent
Democratic appointee, who publicly
announces himself as having assumed,
since his appointment, the control of
an avowed partisan journal.
We believe it is the duty of the
Republican majority of the senate to
oppose the confirmation Of any person
appointed in violation Of the letter and
spirit of the civil service act.
We denounce the national admins
g tration for obvious willingness to
abandon the opinions they have pre-
fessed upon the currency, and to CON-
promise with those leaders of their
; party who are avowedly in favor of
= the continued debasement of the cur
rency; for its hostility TO the commerce
Of the country, evinced by its refusal
TO carry out the system employ
ed by congress for the en-
couragement of American shipping;
for its arbitrary action in repudiating
a contract regularly entered into by
the duly authorized agents of the gov
ernment, and persevering in the at
tempt to deprive American INGREDIENTS
of their means of livelihood, until
aroused public opinion compelled it to
abandon the attempt, and for its hos
tility, further evinced by the arbitrary
2 enforcement Of the customs law, by
illegal provisions and tricks intended
to deprive merchants of any fair OPP
p%ortunity for asserting their rights.
, We denounce the Democratic State
executive for his action in reference to
=, the census, resulting in an extra ses-
! sion Of the legislature, at a large and
useless expense, while he vetoed neces.
/, sary appropriations for the State board
Of health in the face Of a decided
epidemic.
We denounce his conduct in vetoinQ
: the Brooklyn reform bills, in order
: to commend himself to the Local
Democratic leader, while he approved
bills legalizing claims dating from
the days of Tweed and barred by the
statute of limitations and judicial de-
cision, and thereby imposed additional
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