, 1888-06-22

pICSGub ulIlulolIdIlOn HAS DtGu ulSBuSJ
ing us by its ineficiency and cowardice.
Having withdrawn from the senate all
pending treaties effected by the Republi-
can administration for removal of foreign
burdens and restrictions upon our com
ruerce and for its extension into better
markets; it has neither effected nor pro-
posed any others in their stead. PROBES
sing adherence to the Monroe doctrine. it
has seen with idle complacency the extern
sion OF foreign influence in Central Amer
ca and of foreign trade everywhere among
our neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction orr encourage any American or
ganiZation for constructing the Nicaragua
canal, a work of vital Importance to the
maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and
of our national influence in Central and
South America and necessary for develop
ment of trade with South America and
with the islands and further coasts of the
Pacific ocean.
THE FISHERIES.
We arraign the present Democratic ad-
ministration for the weak and unpatriOtic
treatment of the fisheries question and
its pusillanimous surrender of the essen
tial privileges to which our fishing vessels
are entitled in Canadian ports under the
treaty of 1878, the reciprocal maritime
legislation of 1880 and the comfy of ma
tons and which Canadian fishing vessels
receive in the ports of the United States.
We condemn the policy of the present
administration and the Democratic ma
iOrity in congress toward our fisheries as
%unfriendly and conspicuously unpatriotic,
and as tending to destroy a valuable ma
tional industry and indispensable resource
of defense against a foreign enemy.
THE CITIZEN ABROAD.
The name of American applies alike to
all citizens of the republic and imposes
upon all alike the same obligation of ODE
dience to laws. At the same time that
citizenship is and must be the panoply
and safeguard of him who wears it aud
protect him whether high or low, rich or
poor, in all his civil rights. 1t should and
must afford him protection at home and
| follow and protect him abroad in what
ever land he may be on a lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republi-
can 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 and purity Of
ballot, but especially have deserted the
cause of reform in civil service. We will
" lol W hNNB Oul PlCNkSo CNhu LhO1
have broken theirs, or because their candl-
date has broken his. We therefore re-
peat our declaration of 1884, to-wit: Re
form of the civil service, .auspiciously
begun under Republican administration,
should be completed by the further ex-
tension of the reform system already
established by law to all grades of service
to which it is applicable. The spirit and
purpose of reform should be observed in
all executive appointments and all laws at
variance with the object of existing re-
form legislation should be repealed to the
end that dangers to our free institutions
which lack in power of official patronage
may be wisely and effectively avoided"
THE SOLDIER.
The gratitude of the nation to the de.
tenders of the Union cannot be measured
by laws. Legislation of should
conform to the pledges made by the loyal
people and be SO enlarged and extended as
to provide against the possibility that any
man who %honorably wore the federal uni
form shall become an inmate OF an aims
house or depend upon private charity in
the presence of an OVERLOOKING treasury.
1t would be a public scandal to do less for
those whose valorous service preserved the
government.
We d~enounce the hostile spirit shown
by President Cleveland in his numerous
vetoes of measures for pension relief and
the action of the Democratic house of
representatives in refusing even considera-
| ton of general pension legislation.
In support of the principles herewith
enunciated we invite the comparison Of
the patriotic men of all parties and espe-
cially all workingmen, whose prosperity is
seriously threatened by the free trade policy
of the present administration.