Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-15

and Pacific States, as we'll as for the
payment of the maturing public debt.
This policy will give employment to
our labor, activity to our various In
dustries, increase the security of our
country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce,
and cheaper the cost Of transporta-
ton. We affirm this to be far better
for our country than the Democratic
policy of loaning the government
money without interest to ''pet-
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray-
ed us by its inefficiency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and re-
strictions upon our commerce and for
its extension into better markets,
it has neither effected nor proposed
apv others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc
trine. it has seen with idle com.
placency the extension of foreign
influence in Central America, and OF
foreign trade everywhere among our
neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American
organization for the construction OF
the Nicaragua Canal, work OF vital
, importance to the maintenance OF
, the Monroe Doctrine and of our
, national influence in Central and
South America, and necessary for
the development of trade with South
q America and with the islands and
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
:. We arraign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un-
> patriotic treatment of tho fisheries
question, and its pusillanimous sur.
o render of the essential privileges to
= which our fishing vessels are entitled
8 in Canadian ports under the treaty
i. of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg.
9 islation of 1880 and the comfy of
3 nations, and which Canadian fishing
!, vessels receive in the ports of the
:. United States.
q We condemn the policy of the
8 present administration and the Demo.
n cratic majority in Congress toward
a our fisheries as unfriendly and con.
|. spicuously unpatriotis, and as tending
r to destroy q national industry and in
4 dispensable resource Of defense
}. against foreign enemy.
n The name Of "American'' applies
ar alike to all citizens of the Republic
:. and imposes on all alike the same
n obligation of obedience to the laws
70 At the same time the citizenship il
,e and must be the panoply and safe
al guard of him who wears 1t ano
n. protect him, whether high or low
"a rich or poor, in all his civil rights
tn 1t should and must afford him pro
n lection at home and follow him ane
H. protect him abroad in whatever lant
"a. he may be, on lawful errand.
no Men; who abandoned the Republi
~ can party in 1884 and continue tt
IL adhere to the Democratic party, have
he deserted, not only the cause of homes
w government. of sound finance, of tn
-. freedom and purity of the ballot, blu
n. especially have deserted the cause o
70 reform in the civil service. We will
nd not fail to keep our pledges because
oe they have broken theirs, or becaus
~. their candidate has broken his. W.
". therefore repeat our declaration O
"a 1880, to wit: "The reform of tn
no civil service auspic1ously begun
hse under a Republican administration
IS. should be completed by further ex
If tension of the reform system, al
ha ready established by law, to al
"a grades of service to which it is ap
to plicable. The spirit and purpose o
- the reform should be observed in a,
a. executive appointments, and all law
be ut variance with the object of exis!
ing reform legislation should be re
pealed, to the end that the dangers t
" free institutions which Turk in tn
as as power OF official patronage may b
"a wisely and effectively avoided"
''' The gratitude of the nation to tn
defenders of the Union cannot b
''' measured by laws. The legislatio
of Congress should conform I
ne pledges made by the loyal people
IT, and be so enlarged and extended q
Is to provide against the possibility thu
ne any man who honorably wore tn
err Federal uniform shall become tn
IN inmate of an almshouse, or depend
me ent upon private charity in tn
Is presence OF an overlooking treasur,
re- 1t would be a public scandal to d
m less for those whose valorous servic.
~, preserved the government. We d.
'rd nounce the hostile spirit shown b
ND President Cleveland in his numerol
on vetoes of measures for pension relic
and the action Of the Democrat
nat House of Representatives in refusin
ess even the consideration of gener
on pension legislation in support of Il
on principals herein enunciated.