The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-03-12

fOr the development OF the resources OF
our vast territory dictate the scrupulous avoid
ance OF any departure from that
FOREIGN POLICY
commended bv the history. the traditions and
the prosperity of our republic. 1t is the policy
of independence, favored by our position and
defended by our knowledge Of justice and our
power. 1t is the policy of peace. suitable TO our
interests 1t is the policy Of neutrality, reject
ing anv share in foreign powers ambitions upon
other continents, and repelling their intrusion
here. It is the policy Of Monroe and Washing
ton and Jefferson-"Peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling alliances
with none" due regard for the interests and
prosperity of our people demands that our
finances shall be established upon such sound
and sensible basis shall secure the safety and
confidence of business interests and make the
wage of labor sure and steady, and that our sys-
tenn of revenue shall be so adjusted as to relieve
the people from unnecessary taxation. having a
due regard to the interest of capital invested and
wOrk1ngmen employed in American industries
and preventing the accumulation Of a surplus in
the treasury to tempt extravaganza and waste
Care for the property of the nation and for the
domain should be protected from corrupt
schemes and unlawful occupation. The con-
science 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 view to their ultimate citizenship and
that polygamy in the territories, destructive of
the family relation offensive to the moral sense
of the civilized world, shall be repressed. The
law should be rigidly enforced which prohibits
Instrumentation of servile class to compete with
American labor with no intention of acquiring
citizenship. and bringing with them the revolt
ing habits and customs repugnant to our civili-
zation. The people demand reform in the
administration of the government and the appli-
cation OF business principles TO public affairs:
as means to this end, civil service reform
should be in good faith enforced. Our citizens
have the right to protection from the incompe-
tency OF public employees who hold their places
solely as the reward OF partisan service and the
debasing influence of those who promise and the
vicious methods of those who expect such
reward: and those who worthily seek public
employment have sought to insist that
MERIT AND COMPETENCY
shall be recognized instead of party subserviency
admins ration of a government pledged to equal
and exact justice to all. There should be no
pretext for anxiety touching the protection of
the freedmen in their rights or their security in
the enjoyment of their privileges under the con-
stitutfon and its amendments All discussion
as to their fitness for the place accorded to them
as American citizens is idle and Improbable
except as 1t suggests the necessity for their i'm
provement. The fact that they are citizens
entities them to all the rights due to the rela-
ton. and charges them with all its duties,
OBLIGATIONS and responsibilities, These topics
and the constant and ever varying wants Of an
receive the attention and the patriotic endeavor
OF all who make and execute the law. Our duties
are practical, and call for industrious applica-
ton, an Intelligent perception of the claims of
public office, and above ALL firm determination,
by united action, to secure to all the people OF
the land the full benefits of the best form of
government ever vouchsafed to men. And let
us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly
aaiix 1nio,'te the power and goodness Of
nations, and who has ut all times been rever-
enced In our country's history. Let rs invoke
his AID and his blessing upon our labora.