Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-12

reached we will not need any laws forbid- ding the importation of laborers under con- tract. They will have no induce ment to come and the employer no inducement to send for them. In the earlier years of our history public agencies to promote immigration were conn mon. The pioneer wanted neighbor with more friendly instincts than the Indian. La bor was scarce and fully employed. But the day of the immigration bureau has gone by, while our doors will remain open to proper immigration. We do not need to issue spe- cial invitations to the inhabitants of other countries to come to our shores or to share our citizenship; indeed, the necessity of some inspection and limitation is obvious. we should resolutely refuse to permit foreign to send their paupers and crim- inaIs to our ports. We are also cleary under 2 duty to defend our civilization by exclud- ing alien races whose ultimate assimilation with our people is neither possible nor desir- able. The family has been the nucleus of our best immigration and the home the most patent assimulating force in our civilization.
 CHINESE EMIGRATION.
 The objections to Chinese immigration are distinctive and conclusive, and are now 30 generally accepted as such that the question has passed entirely beyond the stage of argu- ment. The laws relating to this subject would, if I should be charged with their en- be faithfully executed. Such or further legislarion as may be the laws and to stop further Chinese immi- grafton would also meet my approval. The expression of the convention upon this sub iect is in entire harmony with my views.
 FRAUDS UPON THE BALLOT.
 Our civil compact is government by ma jorities, and the law loses it's sanction and the magistrate our respect when this com pact is broken. The evil results of election frauds do not expend themselves upon the voters who are robbed of their rightfu1 indu- ence in public affairs. The individual, or or party that practices or con- hives at election frauds has suffered irrepa- rable injury and will sooner or later realize that to exchange the American system of ma- iority rule for minority control is not only and unpatriotic, but very unsafe for those who promote it. The disfran- chisement of single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be re- garded lightly. The right of every qualified elector to cast one free ballot and to have it honestly counted must not be questioned. Every constitutional power should be used to make this right secure and punish frauds upon the ballot. Our colored people do not ask special legisltaion in their interest but only to be made secure in the common rights of American citizenship. They will, how ever, n6GQT8llY UlSL1uSt bu6H1uC61Lky u tuOe6 party leaders who appeal to their race for support only in those localities where suff- rage is free and election results doubtful and compass their disfranohisement where their votes would be controlling and their choice cannot be coerced. The nation, not legs than the States, is dependent for prosperity and security upon the intelligence and morality of the people. This common interest very early suggested national aid in the establish- roanf and on5oumout of rChoOIa and oo11aOaa in the new States. There is, believe, 8 present exigency that calls for still more lib- eral and direct appropriations in aid of com mon schooleducation in the States.
 TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
 The territorial form of government is a temporary expedient, not 6 permanent civil condition. It is adapted to the exigeney that suggested it, but becomes inadequate and even oppressive when applied to fixed and populous communities. Several territories are we'll able to bear the burdens and dis charge the duties of free commonwealths in the American Union. To exclude them is to deny the just rights of their people and may well excite their indignant protest. No question of the political preference of the people of a territory should close against them the hospitable door which has opened to two thirds of the existing States. But ad- mission should be resolutely refused 10 any territory 8 majority of whose people cherish institutions repugnant to our civilization or inconsistent with republican form of gov ernment.
 DENUNCIAT1oE OF TRUSTS.
 The declaration of the convention against faIl combinations of capital, organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitril7 the condition of trade among our citizens," Is In harmony with the views entertained and publicly expressed by me long before the as- ssmbling of the convention. Ord .narily capital shares the losses of idleness with la- Dor, but under the operation of the trust in some of it's forms the wage-earner alone sui fers loss, while idle capital receives its divi- dends from trust fund. Producers who re- fuse to join the combination are destroyed and competition as an element of prices is eliminated. It cannot be doubted that the legislative authority should and will find a method of dealing fairly and effectively with these and other abuses connected with this subject.
 PENSIONS APPROVED.
 It can hardly be necessary for me to say that am heartily in sympathy with the de- claration of the convention upon the subject of pensions to our soldiers and sailors. What they gave, and what they suffered, I had some opportunity to observe, and in 8 small measure to experience. They gave un- grudgingly. It was not trade, but an offer ing. The measure was heaped upon, run- ming over. What they achieved only a dis tant generation can adequately tell. Without attempting to discuss particular proposi tions, may add that measures in behalf of the surviving veterans of the war, and of the families of their dead comrades, should be conceived and executed in & spirit of justice and of the most grateful Eberality, and that in the competition for civil appointment hon orable military service should have proper recognition
 THE CIVIL SERVICE.
 The law regulating appointments to the classified civil service received my support in the Senate in the belief that 1t opened the way to a much needed reform. still think SO, and therefore cordially approve the cleal and forcible expression of the convention up on the subject. The law should have the ai6 of friendly interpretation and be faithfully and vigorously enforced. All appointments under 1t should be absolutely free from par tisan considerations and influence. Some ex tensions of the classified list are practicable and desirable and further legislation extend ing the reform to other branches of the ser- vice to which it is applicable would receive my approval. In appointments to every grade and department fitness and not party service should be the essential and discrimi hating test and fidelity and efficiency the on ly sure tenure of office. Only the interests of the public service should suggest removal from office. know the practical difficulties attending the attempt to apply the spirit O the civil service rules to all appointments and removals. It will, however, be my sin cere purpose, if elected, to advance the re form.
 TEMPERANCE REFORM.
 I notice with pleasure that the convention did not omit to express it's solicitude for tn promotion of virtue and temperance amont our people. The Republican party has al ways been friendly to everything that tendet to make the home life of our people free, ,pur and prosperous and will in the future be tru to its history in this respect.
 FISHERY QUESTION.
 Our relations with foreign powers shout, be characterized by friendliness and respec with right of our people and of our ships | hospitable treatment should be insisted upol with dignity and firmness. Our nation is to great, both in material strength and in mora power, to indulge in bluster or to be sus pected of timorousness. Meditation an ] inconsistency are incompatible with sue cessful diplomacy as they are wit the national dignity. We shoul especially cultivate and extend our diplo naatic and commercial relations with th Central aud South American States. Ou | fisheries should be fostered and protected \ The hardships and risks that are the necesi ary incidents of the business should not b | increased by an inhospirable exclusion fror \ the near-lyin0 ports. The resources of