Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-21

and Pacific States, AS well 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 inetficiency 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having Withdrawn from the Senate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
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, a 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 aud
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusillsnimous 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 unpatriotie, and as tending
r to destroy national industry and in
| dispensable resource Of defense
against foreign enemy.
n The name of "American" apple:
r alike to all citizens of the Republic
and imposes on all alike the sam,
r. obligation of obedience to the laws
o At the same time the citizenship i
q and must he the panoply and safe
4 guard of him who wears it ant
l. protect him, whether high or low
9 rich or poor, in all his civil rights
:, 1t should and must afford him pro
, lection at home and follow him AM
j. protect him abroad in whatever lan'
:. he may be, on lawful Grand.
"a Men who abandoned the Republi
:, can party III 1884 and continue t.
If adhere to the Democratic party, hav
"a deserted, not only the cause Of homes
~ government, of sound finance, of tn
,. freedom and purity of the ballot, bu
=. especially have deserted the cause G
70 reform in the civil service. We wi
d not fail to keep our pledges becaus
u they have broken theirs, or becaus
r their candidate has broken his. w
X therefore repeat our declaration G
"a 1880, to wit: "The reform of tn
20 civil service auspic,ously begu
y. under Republican administrator
9. should be completed by further es
If tension If 'he reform system, a
"a ready established by law, to a
,e grades of service to which it is ar
to piicahe. The spirit and purpose {
% the reform should be observed in a
-. executive appointments, aud all Law
ne at variance with the object of exis
ing reform legislation should be r,
r. pealed, to the end tina, the dangers ,
" free institutions which Turk in til
q" power Of official patronage may t
-. wisely an effectively avoided.
''' The gratitude of the nation to Il
defenders Of the Union cannot |
o' measured by laws. The lesisIatio
Of Congress should conform
ne pledges made 10y the loyal peopl
n and be so enlarged and extended
Is to provide against the possibility TIL
he any man who honorably wore tt
'r' Federal uniform shall become Il
n inmate of an almshouse, or Deepen,
ne ent upon private charity in Il
Is presence OF an overlooking treasur
e. 1t would he public scandal to {
n less for those whose valorous service
u, preserved the government. We Il
rd nounce the hostile spirit shown I
III President Cleveland in his numero,
Oh vetoes of measures for pension relic
and the action of the Democrat
at House Of Representatives in refusir
SIS even the consideration of gener
IN pension legislation in support of u
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