Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-26

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 cheapen 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having Withdrawn from the Senate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
it's extension into better markets,
it has neither effected nor proposed
any others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc
trlne, 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
America and with the islands and
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar-aign the presentDemocratic
administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusiIlanimous 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
s islation of 1880 and the comfy of
S nations, and which Canadian fishing
i. vessels receive in the ports of the
S.. United States.
e We condemn the policy Of the
$ present administration aud the Demo
n cratic majority in Congress toward
a our fisheries as unfriendly and con-
spicuously unpatriote, and as tending
r to destroy national industry and in
d dspensable resource Of defense
J. against foreign enemy.
n The name of "American" applies
n alike to all citizens of the Republic
!. and imposes on all alike the same
" obligation of obedience to the laws
e At the same time the citizenship il
e and must be the panop)y and safe
al guard of him who wears it ane
J. protect him, whether high or low
.e rich or poor, in all his civil rights
10 1t should and must afford him pro
n. lection at home and follow him ant
i. protect him abroad in whatever lan'
s he may be, on lawful Grand.
,e Men who abandoned the Republi
v, can party IN 1884 and continue t
If adhere to the Democratic party, hav
ne deserted, not only the cause OF homes
" government, of sound finance, of tn
O. freedom and purity of the ballot, bu
n. especially have deserted the cause {
re reform in the civil service. We Wi
I'd not fail to keep our pledges becaus
ne they have broken theirs, or becaus
,r- their candidate has broken his. w
x therefore repeat our declaration {
ee 1880, to wit: ''The reform of tn
10 civil service auspic,ously begu
he under Republican Administrative
IS. should be completed by further e'
of tension of the reform system, Il
he ready established by law, to a
ce grades of service to which it is al
tie p!icable. The spirit and purpose {
70 the reform snould be observed in a
IS. executive appointments, and all Law
he at variance with the object of ex's
ing reform legislation should be r.
- peaed, to the end that the dangers
~ free institutions which Turk in Il
~ power Of official patronage may
;,s wisely and eifectlvel y avoided"
" The gratitude of the nation to Il
defenders of the Union cannot
" measured by laws. The legislatic
, OF Congress should conform
a ne pledges made by the loyal peopl
II! and be so enlarged and extended
IS to provide against the possibility tn
lie any man who honorably wore Il
er' Federal uniform shall become Il
III inmate of an almshouse, or Deepen
ne :: ent upon private charity in Il
Is presence OF an overlooking treasur
IT. 1t would be public scandal to I
III less for those whose valorous servic
'u preserved the government. We d
'fa nounce the hostile spirit shown
III President Cleveland in his numero
o'' ve.oes of measures for pension reli'
and the action of the Democrat
nat House of Representatives in refusil
ess even the consideration of genel
on pension legislation in support Of t
on principals herein enunciated.