The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-06-28

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ecute the laws securing to suffers title
to their homesteads, and with using
appropriations made for the purpose
to harass innocent settlers with spies
and prosecutions under the false pre-
tense Of exposing frauds and vindicat-
ing the law.
The government by Congress Of the
Territories is based upon necessity
only, to the end that they may be-
come States in the Union; therefore,
whenever the conditions Of popula-
tion, material resources, public intelli-
gence and morality are such as to in
sure a staple local government there
in, the people of such Territories
should be permitted, as right inher-
ent in them, to form for themselves
constitutions and State Governments,
and be admitted into the Union.
Pending the preparation for State
hood all officers thereof should be Sc
lected from the bona ide residents
and citizens of the Territory wherein
they are to serve. South Dakota
should of right be Immediately admit
ted as State in the Union, under the
constitution framed and adopted by
her people, and we heartily endorse
the action of the Republican Senate
in twice passing bills for her admis-
sion. The refusal of the Democratic
House of Representatives, for partisan
purposes, to favorably consider these
bills, is willful violation of the sa-
cred American principle Of local self
government and merits the condem-
nation Of all just men. The pending
bills in the Senate for acts to enable
the people of Washington, North Da-
kota and Montana Territories to form
constitutions and establish State gov
ernments, should be passed without
unnecessary delay. The Republican
party pledges itself to do all in it's
power to facilitate the admission of
the Territories Of New Mexico, Wyo-
ming, Idaho and Arizona to the en-
joyment of self-government as States,
such Of them as are now qualified 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 exercised
in the past is menace to free institu-
tions too dangerous longer to be suf-
fered. Therefore we pledge the Re-
publican party to appropriate legisla-
ton asserting the sovereignty Of the
Nation in all Territories, where the
same is questioned, and in furtherance
of that end to place upon the statute
books, legislation stringent enough to
divorce the political from the ecclesi-
astical 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 its
effort to 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 exer-
cised except by the will of the people,
it is important that the sovereign
the people-should possess intelli-
gence. The free school is the promo
ter OF that intelligence which is to
preserve us 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 OPP
portunity 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 American merchant marine,
and we protest against the passage by
Congress of free ship bill, as calcu-
lated to work injustice to labor by
lessening the wages Of those engaged
in preparing materials as those direct
ly employed in our ship yards. We
demand appropriations for the early
rebuilding of our navy; for the con-
struction of coast Notifications and
modern ordnance, and other approved
modern means of defense for the pro-
lection of our defenseless harbors and
cities; for the payment Of just pen
sions to our soldiers; for necessary
works of National Importance in the
improvement Of harbors and the chan
nels Of internal, coastwise and foreign
commerce; for the encouragement Of
the shipping interests Of the Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific States, as we'll as for
the payment Of the maturing public
debt. This policy will give employ
ment to our labor, activity to our va
rious industries, increase the security
of our country, promote trade, open
new and direct markets for our pro-
duce and cheaper the cost of transpor-
tation. We affirm this to be far bet
ter for our country than the Demo-
cratic policy Of loaning the Govern
ment's money without interest to 'pet
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present Administration has been
distinguished by its ineficiency
and its cowardice. Having withdrawn
from the Senate all pending treaties
effected by Republican administration
for the removal of foreign burdens
and restrictions upon our commerce
and for its extension into better mar
kets, it has neither effected nor pro-
posed any others in their stead. Pro-
Tossing adherence to the Monroe doc
trine, it has seen with idle complacen-
cy the extension Of foreign in
fuence in Central America, and of
foreign trade everywhere among our
neighbors. It has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American
organization for constructing the
Nicaragua Canal, work of vital i'm
portance to the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine and of our National
influence in Central and South Amer
lea; and necessary for the Development
of trade with our Pacific territory,
with South America, and with the
islands and further coasts Of the Pa
cific Ocean.