Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-10

ana 0CluC OtUtCSS A. WCH oS avs 49,
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 Transports
ton. We affirm this to be far better
for our country than the Democratic
policy of loaninE the government
money without interest to ''pet-
banks" =.
Tie conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray-
ed US by its ineficiency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and re-
s.rictions upon our commerce and for
its extension into better markets,
it has neither effected nor proposed
any others in their stead. Profess.
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc.
trine, it has seen with idle COM
placencv 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
America and with the islands and
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We arcaign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusllanimous sur.
, render of the essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the treaty
. of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg.
, islation of 1880 and the comfy of
) nations, and which Canadian fishing
vessels receive in the ports Of the
United States.
, We condemn the policy Of the
) present administration aud the Demo.
, cratic majority in Congress toward
our fisheries as unfriendly and con.
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tending
r to destroy a national industry and in
1 dispensable resource of defense
: against u foreign enemy.
D The name of "American' apple:
r alike to all citizens of the Republic
i. and imposes on all alike the same
r obligation of obedience to the laws
e At the same time the citizenship il
e and must be the panoply and safe
Il guard of him who wears it an(
j. protect him, whether high or low
E rich or poor, in all his civil rights
o 1t should aud must afford him pro
!, lection at home aud follow him ant
!. protect him abroad in whatever Lane
T. he may be, on lawful errand.
~ Men. who abandoned the Republi
v. can party IN 1884 and continue t.
If adhere to the Democratic party, hav
,e deserted, not only the cause of homes
" govarnment. of sound finance, of tn
D. freedom and purity of the ballot, bu
n. especially have deserted the cause G
re- reform in the civil service. We wi
ID not fail to keep our pledges becaus
,e they have broken theirs, or becaus
r. their candidate has broken his. w
x therefore repeat our declaration G
se 1880, to wit: "The reform Of tn
10 civil service auspic'ously b-gu
ne under Republican Administrative
$. should be completed by further es
Of tension of the reform system, a.
ne ready established by law, to a
CO grades Of >ervic. to which it is az
te plicable. The spirit and purpose c
IN the reform Should be observed in a
-. executive appointments, and all law
he at variance with the object of exis
ing reform legislation should be IT
,f pealed, to the end that the dang els
free institutions which Turk in IL
~ power Of official patronage may I
=. wisely and effectively avoided"
" The gratitude of the nation to II
~. defenders Of the Union cannot
" measured by laws. The leglslatio
of Congress should conform
nc pledges made by the loyal peopl
y; and be so enlarged and extended
10 to provide against the possibility th
NC any man who honorably wore Il
~ Federal uniform shall become II
~ inmate of an almshouse, or Deepen.
'' ent upon private charity in Il
!" presence of All overlooking treasur
e 1t would be a public scandal to {
~ less for those whose valorous service
=. preserved the government. We d
~ nounce the hostile spirit shown /
Il" President Cleveland in his numero
y" vetocs of measures for pension relic
and the action Of the Democrat
'at House of Representatives in refusir
'ss even the consideration Of gener
on pension legislation in support Of Il
on nrincinals herein enunciatel