Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-06

soon as they may become so.
The political power of the Mormon Church
in the Territories as exercised in the past is
a menace TO free institutions, danger no
longer 10 be suffered Therefore we plelge
the Republican party to appropriate legisa-
ton asserting the sovereignty of the nation
in all Territories where the same is cues
toned. and in furtherance of that end 70
place upon the statute books legislation
stringent enough to divorce the political from
the ecclesiastical 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 Adj
ministration in its efforts 20 demonetize
silver.
We demand the reduction of letter postage
to one cent per ounce.
In 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
soveregn-the people-ShOuld possess intel
hgence. The free school is the promoter of
that intelligence which is to preserve Us
free nation; therefore the State or nation. or
both combined, should support free institu-
tions of learning sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the OppOft-
unity of a good common school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt &C
ton be taken by Congress in the enactment
Of such legislation as will best secure the re-
Mobilization of our American merchant
marine and we protest against the passage
by Congress of a Free-Sh bill as calculated
TO work injustice TO labor by lessening the
wages of those engaged in preparing ma
terials as we'll as those directly employed in
our ship-yards We demand appropriations
for the early rebuilding of our navy; for
the construction of coast Notifications and
modern ordnance and other approved
modern means of defence for the projection
of our defenceless harbors and cities; for the
payment Of Just pensions to our soldiers;
for necessary works of national Importance
in the improvement Of harbOrS and the chan
merce: the encouragement of the shipping
interests of the Atlantic Gulf, and Pacific
States as well as for the payment of the
maturing public debt This policy will give
employment to our labor, activity to our
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 tins to be
far better for our country than the Demo
cratic policy of loaning the GOVERNMENTS
money without interest to pet banks.
The conduct of foreign affairs by the pres
ent Administration has been distinguished by
its inefficiency and its cOwardlce. Having
withdrawn from the Senate all pending
treaties effected by Republican admlnistra-
ton for the removal of foreign burdens and
restrictions upon our commerce, and for It's
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 competency
the extension of foreign influence
in Central America and of for
eign trade everywhere among our neigh
bOrs. 1t has refused to charter, sanction, or
Encourage any American organization fcr
constructing the Nicaragua Canal, work of
vital Importance to the maintenance OF the
Monroe doctrine and of our national infu-
once in Central and South America, and
necessary for the development 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 Ad-
Icf,-o sIfNtI
treatment of the fisheries question, and its
pusillanimOus surrender of the essential priv
legeS to which our fishing vessels are entitled
IN Canadian ports under the Treaty OF 1918,
the reciprocal maritime legislation of 1880,
and the comfy of nations, and which Cana
dian fishing vessels receive in the ports Of the
United States. We condemn the policy of the
present Administration and the Democratic
unfriendly and conspicuously unpatriotic,
and as tending to destroy a valuable national
industry and an Indispensable resource of de-
fence against a foreign enemy.
The name of American applies alike to all
citizens of the republic, and imposes upon all
alike the same obligation of obedience to the
laws AT the same time that citizenship is
and must be the panOply and safeguard or
him who wears it and protect him whether
high or low, rich or poor, in all his civil
rights, it should and must afford HIM pro-
lection at home and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be on a law
The men who abandoned the Republican
party in 1884 and continue to adhere to the
Democratic party have deserted not only the
cause of honest Government, of sound finance,
of freedom or purity of the ballot, but eSp9-
cially have deserted the cause Of reform IN
the civil service. We will not fail to keep
our pledges because they have broken theirs or
because their candidate has broken his. We
therefore repeat our declaration of 1884, to
wit: 1.-The reform of the civil service
auspiciously begun under the Republican
Administration should be completed by the
further extension of the reform system
already established by law to all the grades
Of the service to which it is applicable. The
spirit and purpose of the reform should be
observed in all executive appointments, and
ing reform legislation should be repealed. to
the end that the dangers to free institutions
which Turk 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 measured by laws
The legislation of Congress should conform
to the pledge made by a loyal people, and be
so enlarged and extended as to provide
against the possibility that any man who
hOnorably wore the Federal uniform shall
become an inmate of an almShOuse or de-
pendent upon private charity. In the pres
ence of an overlooking treasury it would
be a public scandal to do less for those
whose valorouS service preserved the Gov
We denounce the hostile spirit
shown by President Cleveland in his numer-
the action of the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives in refusing even consideration
Of general pension legislation.
In SIIODOrt of the DrnciDleS herewith enun-