Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-17


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having Withdrawn from the Senate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
any 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
America and with the islands and
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar-aign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pus;llanimous 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 and the Demo
cratic majority in Congress toward
our fisheries as unfriendly and con.
spicuously unpatriotie, and as tending
to destroy national industry and in
dispensable resource of defense
against foreign enemy.
The name Of "American" applies
alike to all citizens Of the Republic
and imposes on all alike the same
obligation of obedience to the laws
At the same time the citizenship is
and must be the panoply and safe.
guard of him who wears it and
protect him, whether high or low
rich or poor, in all his civil rights
1t should and must afford him pro-
lection at home and follow him and
protect him abroad in whatever land
he may be, Oh lawful errand.
Men who abandoned the Republic
can party IN 1884 aud continue tc
adhere to the Democratic party, have
deserted, not only the cause of homes,
government, of sound finance, of the
freedom and purity of the ballot, bu,
especially have deserted the cause Of
reform in the civil service. We will
not fail to keep our pledges because
they have broken theirs, or because
their candidate has broken his. We
therefore repeat our declaration oil
1880, to wit: "rhe reform of the
civil service auspic,ously begun
under Republican administration
should be completed by further ex.
tension of the reform system, al.
ready established by law, to all
grades CT >ervic. to which it is ap.
plicah'e. The spirit and purpose OF
the reform should be observed in a..
execu'iv" appointments, and all laws
at variance with the object Of exist.
ing reform legislation should be re.
pealed, to the end that the dangers tc
free institutions which Turk in the
power Of official patronage may be
wisely and effectively avoided"
The gratitude of the nation to the
defenders of the Union cannot be
measured by laws. The legislation
OF Congress should conform &c
pledges made by the loyal people
and be so enlarged and extended as
to provide against the possibility tina,
any man who honorably wore the
Federal uniform shall become the
inmate of an almshouse, or depend.
ent upon private charity in the
presence OF. an OVERLOOKING treasury
1t would be public scandal to dc
less for those whose valorous service.
preserved the government. We de.
nounce the hostile spiri. shown by
President Cleveland in his numerous
vetoes of measures for pension relief
and the action of the Democratic
House of Representatives in refusing
even the consideration Of genera
pension legislation in support of the
| DriDcipals herein enuncia.eH