The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-03-12

NO. II.

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try vigilant watch and close scruti-
ny of its public servants and fair
and reasonable estimate of their fdel-
ity and usefulness. Thus is the peo-
pies will impressed upon the whole
framework of our civil polity-mu-
nicipal, state and federal, and this
is the price of our liberty and the in
spiration of our faith in the republic.
1t is the duty of those serving the
people in public places to closely lin
it public Expenditures to the actual
needs of the government, economical
ly administered, because this is
the right of the government to exact
tribute from the earnings of labor
or the property of the citizen, and
because public extravaganza begets
extravaganza among the people. We
should never be ashamed of the sim
plicity and prudential economies
which are best suited to the operation
OF 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
people and may do much by their ex-
ample 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 industry.
The genius of our institutions, the
needs of our people in the home life,
and the attention which is demanded
for the settlement and development
of the resources of our vast territory,
dictate the scrupulous avoidance of
any departure from that foreign poll
cy commended by the history, the
traditions and the prosperity of our
republic. 1t is the policy of indie
pendence favored by our position and
defended by our known love of JUS
tice and by our power. 1t is the pol
icy 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 of Washington and JEFF
ferson 'Peace, commerce and hon
est friendship with all nations-en-
tangling alliances with none"
A due regard for the interests and
prosperity of all the people demands
that our finances shall be established
upon such a sound and sensible basis
as shall secure the safety and conf
dence 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 peO-
pie from unnecessary taxation, hav-
ing due regard to the interests of
capital interested and workingmen
employed by American industries,
and preventing the accumulation Of
surplus in the treasury to tempt ex-
travagance and waste.
Care for the property of the nation
and for the needs of future settlers
require that the public domain should
be protected from purloining schemes
and unlawful occupation.
The conscience of the people de-
mands that the Indians within our
boundaries shall be fairly and hon
estly treated as wards of the govern
ment, and their education and civil
cation promoted, with a view to their
ultimate citizenship, and that polyg-
amy 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 enforc-
ed which prohibit the immigration of
servile class to compete with Amer
lean labor with no intention of ac-
quiring citizenship and bringing with
them and retaining customs and hab-
It's repugnant to our civilization.
The people demand reform in the
administration of the government and
the application 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
incompetency of public employees,
who hold their places solely as the
reward of partizan service, and from
the corrupting influence of those who
promise and 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
subserviency of the surrender ofhon-
est political belief. In the admins
tration of a government pledged to
do equal and exact justice to all men,
there should be no pretext for ankle
ty touching the protection of the
freedmen in their rights or their Sc
curity in the enjoyment of the privi-
leges of the constitution and it's
amendments. All discussions as to
their fitness for the places accorded
to them as American people is idle