The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-05

couragement 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 various industries,
increase security OF our country, promote
trade, open new and direct markets for our
produce aud cheaper the cost of transporta-
ton. We affirm this to DO far better tor our
country than the democratic policy OF loan
ing the governments money without interest
to pet banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by the pres
ent administration has been distinguished by
its inefiiciency and its cowardice. Having
withdrawn from the senate all pending
treaties effected by republican adniinistra-
tions 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 ~ their
stead. Protesting adhel enco to the Monroe
doctrine, it has seen with idle complacency
the extension of foreign influence in Central
America and of foreign trade everywhere
emong our neighbors. 1t has refused 10
charter, sanction or encourage any American
organization for constructing the Nicaragua
canal, work of vital Importance to the
maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and Of
our national influence in Central and South
America, and necessary for the development
of trade with our Pacific territory, with
South America and with the islands and fur
ther coasts of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present democratic admil-
istration for its weak and unpatriotic treat
ment o. the fisheries question, and its pusil-
luminous surrender of the essential privileges
to which our fishing vessels are entitled in
Canadian ports under the treaty of 1878, the
reciprocal maritime legislation of 1880 AMI
the comfy of nations, an which Canadian
filing vessels receive in the ports of the
United States. We condemn the policy of
the present administration and the demo-
cratic majority in congress toward cur
fisheries as unfriendly and conspicuously UNI
patriotic, and as tending to destroy valu-
able national industry and an indispensable
resource of defence against foreign enemy.
The name of American applies alike t, all
citizens Of the republic and imposes upon all
alike the same obligation Of obedience to the
laws. At the same time that citizenship i
and must be the panoply and safeguard of
him who wears it and protect him, whether
high or low, rich or poor, in all his civil
rights 1t should and must afford him pro-
lection at home and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be on a law
full errand.
The men who abandoned the republican
party in 1884, and continue to adhere to tn
democratic party, have deserted not only the
cause of honest governmental sound finance,
of freedom, of purity of the ballot, but espe-
cally have deserted tho cause of reform in
the civil service. We will not fail to keep
cur pledges because they have broken theirs,
or because their candidate has broken his.
We therefore repeat our declaration of 1884,
TO witt 1.-The reform of tho civil service, aus
piciously begun under the republican ad-
ministration, should bs completed by the
further extens on of the reform system al
ready established by law to all the grades
of the service to which il
is applicable. The spirit and
purpose of the reform should be observed
in all executive az pointments, and all laws
form leg slation should be repealed, TO the
end that the dangers to free institutions
which Turk in the power of official patron
age may be wisely and effectively avoided.
The gratitud, of the nation to the defend
erS Of tire union cannot be measured by
laws. The legislation of congress should
conform to the pledge made by loyal
people and be so enlarged and extended as &c
provide against the possibility that any man
who honorably wore the federal uniform
shall become an inmate of an almshou e
or dependent upon private charity. In the
presence of an overfiowing treasury, it would
be a public scandal to do less for those whose
valorous service preserved the government
We denounce the hostile spirit shown by
President Cleveland in his numerous veto es OF
measures for pension relief, and the action Of
the democratic hou 9 of representatives il
refusing even consideration of general pen
sion legislation.
In support of the principles herewith enun
ciated we invite the cooperation of patriotic
men of all parties, and especially of al
workingm N, whose prosperity is seriou ly
threatened by the free trade policy Of the
present administration