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from the earnings of labor or the prop
erty OF citizens. And because public.
extravaganza wrongs the people we
should never be

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erty of citizens. And because public
extravaganza wrongs the people we
should never be
ASHAMED OF SIMPLICITY
and prudential economies which are
best suited to the operation of the Re
publican forms 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 example to
encourage, consistently with the digni-
ty of their official functions, that plain
way OF life which among their fellow
citizens aids integrity and promotes
thrift and prosperity.
FOREIGN POLICY.
The genius of our institutions, the
needs of our people in the home life,
and the attention which is for
the settlement and development of the
resources OF our vast territory, dictates
scrupulous avoidance of any departure
from that foreign policy commended
by the history, tradition and prosperi-
ty of our republic. It is the policy of
independence, favored by our position
and defended by our known love of JUS
tice and by our power; it is the policy
of peace, suitable to our interests it is
the policy of neutrality, rejecting any
share in foreign broils and ambitions on
sother continents, and repelling their in
trusion here; it is the policy of Wash
ington and Monroe and Jefferson
peace, commerce and honest friendship
with all nations, entangling alliances
with none.
FINANCES
Due regard for the interest and
prosperity of all the people demands
that our finances shall be established
upon such sound and sensible basis as
shall secure the safety and confidence
OF our 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 people from
unnecessary taxation, having due re-
gard to the interests of capital invested
and workingmen employed in Ameri-
can industries, and preventing the ac-'
emulation of surplus in the Treasury,
to an extent that induces extravaganza
and waste. Care for the prosperity 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 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.
PoLYGAMY
in the Territories is destructive of the.
family and Of religion, and offensive to
the moral aissense Of the civilized world,
and shall be repressed.
CHINESE AND PAUPERs.
The laws should be rigidly enforced
which prohibit the immigration of SER
vile classes to compete with American
labor, with no intention of acquiring
citizenship, and bringing with them
and retaining the habits and customs
repugnant to our civilization.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The people demand reform in the adj
ministration 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 incompetency
of public employees, who hold their
places solely as the reward for partisan
services, and from corrupt influence of
those who promise, and the vicious
methods of those who expect such re-
wards. Those who worthily seek pub
lie employment have the right to insist
that merit and competency shall be
recognized, instead of party subservi-
ency or the surrender of honest politi-
cal belief in the administration of a
government pledged to do equal and
exact justice to all men.
THE CoLoRED MEN
There should be no pretext for anxi-
! ETY. touching the protection of freedmen
in their rights or their security in the
enjoyment of their privileges under the
constitution and its amendments. All
discussions as to their fitness for the
place accorded to them as American
citizens is idle and improbable, except
as it suggests the necessity for their im-
provement. The fact that they are cit
izens entities them to all the rights due
to this relation and charges them with
all its duties, obligations and RESPONSE
bilities.
These topics, and the constant and
eyer-varying wants of an active and
enterprising population, may well re-
ceive the attention and patriotic en-
! deavor of all who make and execute
the federal law Our duties are practi-
cal and call for the industrious appli-
cation and intelligent perception of the
claims of public Office, and above all, a
firm determination of united action, to
secure to all the people of the land full
benefits of the best form of government
ever vouchsafed to man and to u.s. And
let us not trust to human efforts alone
but to humbly acknowledge the power
and goodness of the Almighty God
who presides over the destinies of ma.
tions, and who at all times has been
revealed in our countrys history Let
us invoke His aid and His blessing up
on our labors.
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seven stores high, with the kitchen on
the top floor, and an electric fire-escape
in every room. The escape is to be
operated from the Office. By touching
, button there the guests are stimuli
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