Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-09-14
ment to come, and the employerno induce

ment to come, and the employerno induce
ments to send for them.
In the earlier years of our history public
agencies to promote immigration were COM
mon. The pioneer wanted aneighbor with
more friendly instincts than the indian.
Labor was scarce and fully employed. But
the day of the immigration bureau has gone
has gone by. While our doors will con-
tinue open to proper immigration, we do
not need to issue special invitations TO the
of other countries to come to
our shores or to share our citizenship In
deed, the necessity of some inspe ,uon ana
limitation is obvious. We should resolute-
ly refuse to permit foreign governments 10
send their paupers and criminals to our
ports. We are also clearly under a duty
to defend our civilization by excluding
alien races whose ultimate assimilation
with our people is neither possible nor de-
sirable. The family has been the nucleous
of our best immigration and the home the
most potent assimilating force on our civil
lization.
The objections to Chinese immigration
are distinctive and conclusive, and are now
SO generally accepted as such that the
question has passed entirely beyond the
stage of argument The laws relating to
this subject would, if should be charged
with their enforcement, be faithfully exc
ecuted. Such amendments or further leg
islation as may be necessary and proper to
prevent evasions of the laws and to stop
further Chinese immigration would also
meet my approval. The expression of the
convention on this subject is in entire mar
mony with my views.
TRUSTS.
The declaration of the convention against
call combinations of capital, organized IN
trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily
the condition of trade among our citizens,
is in harmony with the views entertained
and publicly expressed by me long before
the assembling of the convention. ordl-
narily, capital shares the losses OF idleness
with labor, but under the operation OF the
trust. in some of its FORMS the wage-work-
er alone suffers loss, while idle capital re-
ceives its dividends from q trust fund.
Producers who refuse to join the eombina-
ton are destroyed, and competition as an
element of prices is eliminated. 1t cannot
be doubted that the legislative authority
should and will find method of dealing
fairly and effectively with these and other
abuses connected with this subject.
PENSIONS.
1t can hardly be necessary for me to say
that am heartily in sympathy with the
declaration of the convention upon the sub
ject of pensions to our soldiers and sailors.
What they gave and what they suffered
had some opportunity to observe, and, IN
small measure, to experience. They gave
ungrudgingly; it was not trade, but an
Offering. The measure was heaped up,
running over. What they achieved only a
distant generation can adequately tell.
without attempting to discuss particular
propositions, may add that measures III
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 most grateful hberali-
ty. and that, in the competitor for civil ap
pointment. honorable military service
should have appropriate recognition.
rp,tpVu.rcp
notice with pleasure that the conyen-
ton did not omit to expressi its solicitude foi
the promotion of virtue and temperance
among our people The Republican party
has always been friendly to everything that
tended to make the home life Of ourpeoplt
free, pure and prosperous, and will in the
future be true TO its history in this respect.
RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN DIVERS.
Our relations with foreign powers should
be characterized by friendliness and re-
spect The right of our people and and OF
our ships to hospitable treatment should be
insisted upon with dignity and firmness.
Our Nation is too great, both in material
strength and in moral power, to indulge in
buster or t. be suspected OF timorousness.
yacillation and inconsistency are AZ IN
compatible with successful diplomacy as
they are with the National dignity. We
should especially cultivate and extend oui
diplomatic and commercial relations with
the Central and South American States.
Our fisheries should be fostered and protect
ed. The hardship1 and risks that are the
cecessary incident of the business should
not be increased by All inhospital exclusion
from the near-lyina ports. The resources
of firm, dignifcd and consistent diploma
cy are undoubtedly equal to the prompt
and peaceful solution of the difficulties that
now exist. Our neighbors will surely not
expect in our ports commercial hospitali-
ty they deny to us in theirs.
| cannot extend this letter by special
reference to other subjects upon which the
convention gave an expression. In re-
spect to them az well as to those / have
noticed, am in entire agreement with the
declarations of the convention. The reso-
lutions relating to the coinage, to the re-
building of the navy, to coast defenees and
to public lands, express conclusions to al
of which gave my support in the Senate
In inviting calm and thoughtful con
idcration Of these public questions, We
submit them to the people. Their inteili
gent patriotism qnd the good Providence
that made and has kept US Nation, will
lead them to wise and safe conclusions.