San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-07-12

10 uuOru 10 ovcry CHIC growing UP
in the land an opportunity Of good
common school education.
We earnestly recommend that
prompt action be taken by congress
in the enactment OF such legislation
as will best secure the rehabilitation
of our merchant marine, and we pro-
test against the passage by congress
OF a free ship bill, as calculated to
work injustice to labor by lessening
the wages OF those engaged in pre-.
pairing materials, as we'll as those di-
rectly employed in our ship yards.
We demand appropriations for the
early rebuilding Of our navy; for the
construction Of coast Notifications
and modern ordnance aud other ap
proved modern means of defense; for
the protection OF our defenseless
harbors and cities for the payment
of just pensions to our soldiers; for
necessary works of national impor-
tance in the improvement OF harbors
and channels of internal, coastwise
and foreign commerce; for the en-
couragement Of the shipping interests
of Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific states,
as we'll as for the payment of the
maturing debt. This policy will give
employment to our laborers, activity
10 our various industries, increase Sc
curity to our country, promote trade,
open new and direct markets for our
produce and cheaper the cost ef
transportation. We affirm this to be
far better for our country than the
Democratic policy of loaning govern
ment money without interest to pet
banks.
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has been
distinguished by its inefficiency and
it's cowardice. Having withdrawn
from the senate all pending treaties
enacted by the Republican admins
tration for the removal of foreign
burdens and restrictions upon our
commerce and for Its extension into
better markets, it has neither effected
nor proposed any others in their
stead. Processing adherence to the
Monroe doctrine, it has seen with
Idle complacency the extension OF
foreign influence in Central America
and and foreign trade everywhere
among our neighbors. tt has refused
to charter, sanction or encourage any
American organization for construct
ing the Nicaraugua canal, work OF
vital importance to the maintenance
of the Monrse doctrine and Of our
national influence in South and Cen
tral America, and necessary for the
of trade with our Pacific
territory with South America and
with the islands and further coasts
of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic
for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question and it's pusilanimous sur
render of essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are en-
titled in Canadian ports under the
provisions of the treaty of 1918, the
reciprocal maritime Legislation of
1880 and the comfy Of nations, and
which Canadian fishing vessels re-
ceive in ports of the United States.
We condemn the policy of the
present administration and the Dem
ocratic majority in congress toward
the fisheries as unfriendly and con-
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tend
ing to destroy q national industry
and indispensable resources OF de-
fense against foreign enemy.
The name of American applies
alike to all citizens Of the republic,
impress upon all the same alike OBJ
legations of obedience to laws. At
the same time that citizenship is and
must be the panoply and safeguard
Of him who wears it, and protect
him, whother high or low, rich or
poor, in all his rights, it should and
must afford protection at home
and follow and protect him abroad
wherever he may be on o lawful
errand,
The men who abandoned the Re
publican party in 1884 and continue
TO adhere to the Democratic party
have deserted not only the cause OF
honest govsrnmentand sound finance,
of the freedom and purity Of the bal
lot, but especially have they deserted
The cause OF reform in civil service.
We will not fail to keep our pledges
because they have broken theirs, or
because their candidate has broken
bis. We therefore repeat of our
declaration Of 1884, to-wit:
"Reform OF the civil service, auspi-
ciously begun under Republican aC-
should be completed by
he further extension Of the reform
,ystem as already established by law
10 all grades Of the service to which
L is applicable The spirit and pur-
pose OF reform should be observed in
III executive appointments, and al
avs at variance with the object Of
existing reform legislation should be
10 tho end that the dangers
70 free institutions which lurk 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
by laws The Legislation
Of congress should conform 20 the
pledges made by loyal people, and
be so enlarged and extended as 10