Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-04

should Of right be Immediately admitte
I as State in the Union, under the con
r stitution framed and adopted by tn
= people, and we heartily indorse the actio
, Of the Republican Senaie in twic
passing bills for her admission. Tn
refusal of the Democratic House O
Representatives, for partisan purposes, T.
favorably consider these bills, a wilfu
violation of the sacred American principle
Of local self.government. and merits thu
condemnation Of all just men. Tl,
pending bills in the Senate for acts t
enable the people of Washington, NORTH
Dakota and Montana Territories to form
constitutions should be passed withUu
unnecessary delay. The republican party
pledges itself TO DO all in its power to "a
cilitate the admission Of the territories o.
New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Ari
zona to the enjoyment Of self.goveInment
as states, such of them as ere now quail.
hed, as soon as possible, and the Others as
soon as they may become so.
The political power of the Mormon
church in the territories, as experienced in
the past, is a menace to free institutions
too dangerous TO be long suffered. There.
fore we pledge the republican party to ap.
propnate legislation asserting the sover-
eighty Of the nation in all territories
where the same Is questioned, and in
turtherance Of that end to place upon the
statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the ecclesias-
teal power, and thus stamp out the
attendant wickedness of polygamy.
The republican party is in favor of the
use of both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy of the democratic
administration IN it's efforts to demonetize
silver.
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to cent per ounce.
In a republic like ours, where the
citizen Is the sovereign and the official the
servant, where no power is exercised
except by the will of the people, it Is
important that the sOvereign-the people
should possess intelligence. The free
school is the promoter of that intelligence
which is to preserve us a free nation;
therefore, the state or nation, or both
combined, should support free institutions
of learning, sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the oppor-
tunlty Of good common school edu.
cation.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by Congress in the en-.
actment OF such legislation as will bet
secure the rehabilitation of our American
merchant marine, and we protest against
the passage by Congress Of free ship
bill, as calculated to work injustice to
labor by lessening the wages Of those
engaged in preparing materials, as well
as those directly employed in our ship
yards. We demand appropriations for
the early !ebuilding of our navy; for the
construction of coast Qualifications and
modern ordnance, and other approved
modern means of defense for the protec.
tion of our defenseless harbors and
cities; tor the payment of just pensions
to our soldiers; for necessary works of
National importance in the improvement
of harbors and the channels of internal
coastwise, and foreign commerce; for the
encouragement of the shipping interests
OF the Atlantic, Gulf aud Pacihc States, as
we'll as for the payment OF the maturing
public debt. This policy will give em-
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.
gmshed by its lneticiency 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.
merco and for its extension into better
markets, it has neither effected nor pro.
posed any Others IN their stead. Profess. |
ing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it |
has seen with idle complacency the exten.
sion OF foreign influence IN Central |
America, and Of foreign trade everywhere |
among our neighbors. 1t has refused to |
charter, sanction or encourage any Amer |
lcan organization for constructing the |
Nicaragua canal, work OF vital import. |
ance TO 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
NAA 4 ANAtA NNAAANhANn WIN NNAkN America
aud with the islands and further coasts of
the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present democratic ad.
minlstTation for its weak and unpatriouc
treatment OF the fisheries question, and
It's puSillanimous surrender of the essen.
ual privileges to which our fishing vessels
are enutlsd IN Canadian ports under the
treaty Of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation OF 1880, and the comfy Of
nations, aud which Canadian fishing YES.
sells receive in the ports Of the United
States. We condemn the policy of the
present administration and the democratic
majority in Congress toward our fisheries
as uniriendly and conspicuously unpatri-
otle, aud as tending to destroy valuable
national industry, and al indispensable
resource OF defense against foreign
enemy,
The name Of America applies alike to
All citizens of the republic, and imposes
ipon all alike the same obligations Of
obedience to the laws. Al the same time
.ha, citizenship is and must be the pan.
,ply and safeguard Of him who wears it,
md protect him, whether high OF low,
fieh or poor, in his civil rights. II should