The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-07


work of our civil polity, municipal, state
and Federal, 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 peo-
pie in public place to closely limit pub
lie expenditures to the actual needs of
the government economically admins
tered, because this bounds the right of
/ government to exact tribute from the
| citizen, and because public extrava
gance begets extravaganza among the
people. We should never be ashamed
of the simplicity and prudential econo-
mics which are best suited to the opera
ton of republican form Of government
and most compatible with the mission of
the American people.
Those who are selected for a limited
time to manage public affairs are still of
the people, 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 pro-
notes thrift and prosperity.
The genius of our institutions, the
needs of our people in their home life,
and the attention which is demanded for
settlement and development of the re-
sources of our vast territory, dictate the
scrupulous avoidance of any departure
from that foreign policy commended by
the history, the traditions and the pros
perity of our Republic. 1t is the policy
of independence favored by our position
and defended by our known love of JUS
tice and by our power. 1t is the policy
of peace suitable to our interests. 1t is
the policy of neutrality, rejecting any
share in foreign broils and ambitions
upon other continents and repelling tt cir
intrusion here. It is the policy of Mon
roe and Washington and Jefferson
s'peace, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations, entangling ALLAN
ces with none''
| A due regard for the interests and
prosperity 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 bus
mess interests, and make the wages of
labor sure and steady, and that our sys-
tenn of revenue should be SO adjusted as
to relieve the people from unnecessary
taxation, having due regard to the in
terests of the capital invested and the
workingmen employed in American in
dustries, and preventing the aceumula-
tion of surplus in the treasury to tempt
extravaganza and waste.
Care for the property of the nation and
for the needs of future settlements re-
quire that the 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 govern
ment, and their education and civiliza-
ton promoted with view to their ulti-
mate citizenship; and that polygamy in
the Territories, destructive of the family
relation and offensive to the moral sense
of the civilized world, shall be re-
pressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced
which prohibit the immigration of a
servile class to compete with American
labor with no intention of acquiring citi-
zenship, and bringing with them and re-
tanning customs and habits repugnant to
our civilization.
The people demand reform III the adj
ministration Of the government and the
application of business principles to pub
lie 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 partisan service,
and from the corrupting influence oi
those who promise and the vicious meth.
DDS of those who expect such rewards.
And those who worthily seek public en-
ployment have the right to insist that
merit and competency shall be rccogniz
ed instead of party subserviency or the
f surrender of honest political belief.
{ In the administration of a government
5 pledged to do equal and exact justice tc
| all men, there should be no pretext for ;
D nicely touching the protection of Tho
l freedmen in their rights or their secu
: rity in the enjoyment of the privileges
under the Constitution and its amend
) ments. All discussion as to their fitness
for the place accorded to them as Amer
, ican citizens is..idle and Improbable, ex
: cept as it suggests the necessity for thei
: Improvement. The fact that they ar
: citizens entities them to all the right!
e due to that relation, and charges then
e with all its duties, obligations and re
. sponsibilities.
S These topics and the constant an
: ever varying wants of an active and en-