Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-29

pet banks.
The conduct Of foreign affairs by |
the present administration has be-
trayed us by its inefficency and cow
ardice; having Withdrawn from the
Senate all pending treaties effected
by the republican administration for
removal 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. Protesting adj
herence to the Monroe Doctrine, 1t
has seen with idle complacency, the
extension OF foreign influence in Gen.
trail America, and of foreign trade
everywhere among our neighbors.
It 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 doc
trine and of our national influence in
Central and South America, and nee
essary for the development of trade
with South America and with the
islands and farther coasts OF the Pa
cific Ocean.
We arraign the present democratic
administration for its weak and I'M
patriotic treatment OF the fisheries
question, and its pusillanimous sur
render of the essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the treaty of
1918, the reciprocal maritime legisla-
ton 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 unfrendly and con-
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tending
to destroy a 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 OBJ
legations Of obedience to the law.
At the same time that citizenship is
and must be the panoply and safe
guard of him who wears it, and pro-
tect him, whether high or low, rich Oh
poor, In all his civil rights. 1t should
and must afford him protection al
home and follow him and protect hin
abroad in whatever land he may be
on lawful Grand.
Men who abandoned the republican
party in 1884 and continue to adhere
to the democratic party, have desert
ed, not only the cause of honest gov
eminent, of sound finance, of the free
dom and purity of the ballot, but es
pecially have deserted the cause o
reform in the civil service. We vii
not fail to keep our pledges becaus'
they have broken theirs, or becaus
' their candidate has broken his. W.
therefore repeat our declaration O
+ 1880, towit: "The reform of the civ
il service auspiciously begun under
1 republican administration should b
S completed by further extension G
the reform system, already establishe
# by law, to all grades of service t
which it is applicable. The spir
e and purpose of the reform should b
l. observed in all executive appoint
is ments, and all laws at variance wit
e the object of existing reform legisls
= ton should be repealed, to the en-
IS that the dangers to free institution
e which Turk in the power of ofiici
h patronage may be wisely and effec
y lively avoided"
h The gratitude of the nation to II
l. defenders of the union cannot |
d measured by laws. The legislatio
e of Congress should conform to pledg,
d made by the loyal people, and be .
enlarged and extended as to provit
1t against the possibility that any ma
IS who .honorably wore the federal un
"a form shall become the inmate of g
# aims house, or dependent upon pr
d vate charity in the presence of a
" Overlooking treasury. 1t would be
|. public scandal to do less for tho,
" whose valorous services preserved II
n government. We denounoe the ho
IS tile spirit shown by President Clev'
n land in his numerous vetoes Of mea
ures for pension relief, and the aotio
of the democratic house of represel
=, tatives in refusing even the oonside
! alton of general pension legislatio
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