Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-11-01

public debt This policy will give en-
ployment to our labor, activity to our va.
! rious industries, Increase the security Of
our country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce, and
cheaper the cost OF transportation. 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 been distin-
pulshed by its lnefiiciency and Its coward.
ice. Having Withdrawn from the Senate
all peuding treaties effected by republican
administration for the removal of foreign
burdens and restrictions upon our com.
merce and for its extension into better
markets, it has neither effected nor pro.
posed any others III their stead. Profess
ipg adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it
has seen with idle complacency the extern
sion OF foreign influence III Central
America, aui Of foreign trade everywhere
among our neighbOrs. 1t has refused to
charter sanction or encourage any Amer
lcan organization for constructing the
Nicaragua canal, a work OF vital import
ance 10 the maintenance Of the Monroe
doctrine, and of our national influence in
Central and South America, and neces-
sary for the development OF trade with
our Pacific territory, with South America
and with the islands and further coasts Of
the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present democratic ad-
mimstration for its weak and unpatriotlc
treatment of the fisheries question, and
its pusilanlmous surrender of the essen
ual privileges to which our fishing vessels
are enutled in Canadian ports under the
treaty of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation of 1880, and the comfy Of
nations, and wh!cn Canadian fishing YES.
sells receive III the ports of the United
States. We condemn the policy of the
present administration aud the democratic
majority in Congress toward our fisheries
as unIriendly and cOuspicuously unpatri-
olic, aud as tending to destroy valuable
national industry, and an indispensable
resource OF defense against foreign
enemy.
The name of America applies alike 10
all citizens of the republic, and imposes
upon all alike the same obligations OF
obedience to the laws. AT the same time
that citizenship is and must be the pam
uply and safeguard Of him who wears it,
and protect hlm. whether high or low,
rich or poor, in his civil rights. 1t should
ana must afford nim protection at home,
and follow and project him abroad IN
whatever land he may be on lawful
errand.
The men who abandoned the republican
party in 1884. aUd continue to adhere to
the democratic parry, have deserted not
onIv the cause Of honest government, OF
sound finances, f lie. dom and purity OF
he ballot, buc e,prcially have deserted
rhe cause ul r, fulnl in the civil service.
We will n1t TAI - keep our pledges be-
cause they have broken theirs, OF because
their candidate has broken his. We,
therefore, repeat our declaration Of 1884,
20 wjr; The relorm Of the civil service,
auspiciously hegun under the republican
administration should be completed by
the further extension Of the reform system
already established by law, TO all the
GRADES of the service to which it is applic'
able. The spirit and purpose of the re-
form should be observed i'll all executive
appointments, and all laws at variance
with the object Of existing reform legisa-
tipn should be repealed, to the end that
The danger to free institutions which turks
10 the power Of official patronage may be
wisely aud effectively avoided"
The gratitude Of the nation to the de-
fenders Of the union can not be measured
by laws. The legislation Of Congress
should conform to the pledges made by
loyal people, and he so enlarged and ex.
tended as to provide against the possibility
that any man who honorably wore the
federal uniform shall become the inmate
rf an almshOuse, OF dependent upon
private charity. In the presence Of an
oyrrAowing treasury it would be public
scandal to do less for those whose valoT-
o"s service preserved the government.
We deuounce the hostile spirit shown by
President Cleveland in his numerous
ve;oes Of measures for pension relief, and
the action Of the democratic house OF
representatives. in refusing even consid-
Grafton Of general pension legislation.
lu support Of the principles herewith
euunuialed we invite the cooperation ol
patriotic men of AL parties, and especially
ut al workIugmen whose prosperity IS
seriously threatened by the free trade
I,o ICY of the present administration.
Additional plank submitted by Mr..
. utcIle ul Maine, and adopted by an
ar,uuSt unanimous vote: The first cen.
corn 1T all good government is the virtue
,nJ >'nueDy ,f the people and the purity
ot ,h" hour The republican party
euriaNy ,lmpaJ'izes with all wise and
well ., c'.., if'r,s f'r the promotion of
;"r.. .aA,t .,u. go wlry.