The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1888-10-12

and vindicating the law.
The government by congress of the terri
tories is based upon necessity only to the
end that they may become states i'll the
Union; therefore whenever the conditions of
population, material resources, and public
intelligence and morality are such as to in
sure stable local government therein, the
people of such territories should be permit
ted as right inherent in them to form for
themselves constitutions and state govern
ments and be admitted into the union. PEN
ding the preparation for Statehood all Off
GERS thereof should he selected from resi-
dents and citizens of the territory wherein
they are to serve.
South Dakota should Of right Immediately
be admitted state in the Union, under
the constitution framed aud a"pted by her
people, and we heartily indorse the action
of the republican senate in twice passing
bills for her admission. Tie refusal of the
democratic house of representatives, for par
tisan purposes, to consider the Sc bills is a
wiilful vioiution of the sacred American
principles Of LEGAL self government, and mer
its the condemnation OF all just men.
The pending bills in the senate for acts to
enable the people Of Washington. of North
Dakota and Montana territories to form con-
stitutions and establish state governments,
should be passed without unnecessary de-
lay.
The republican party pledges itself to do
all in it's power to faciiate the admission of
the territories of New Mexico, Wyoming
Ic aho and Arizona to the enjoyment of self,
government as states. such of them as are
now qualified soon possible, and the
others AS soon AS they become so.
The political power of the Mormon church
in the territories, as exercised In the past,
is a menance to free institutions and too
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we pledge the republican party to appropri-
ate legislation 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
lel islation stringent enough to divorce
tbepolitical from the ecclesiastical power,
and thus stamp out the attendant wicked
ress Of polygany.
The republican party is in favor of the
If both gold and silver as money, and con-
lemns the policy of the democratic adminis-
tration in its effort to demonetize silver.
We demand reduction of letter postage
to l. cent.
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
sovereign. the people, should possess intel
iigence. The free school is the promoter of
that intelligence which is to preserve
free nation. Therefore, state or national
power, or both combined, should support
free institutions of learning Sufficient to af-
ford to every ehi.d growing u,S in the land
the opportunity of good common school
education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by congress in the enactment
of such legislation as ill best secure the
rehabilitation of our American merchant
marine, and We protest against the passage
by congress oi the free snip bill as calcula-
ted to work III Justice to labor by 1essening
the wages of those engaged in preparing ma
terials well as those directly employed in
our shipyards.
We demand appropriations for the early
building of our navy, for the construction OF
coast fnrtifications aid modern ordinance,
and other approved modern means of de-
tense for the rroteciun ns our defenseless
harbors and cities; for the payment OF just
pensions To our soldiers; for other works of
national importance i'll the improvement of
harInrs and channels, and internal, coast
wise and foreign commerce.; and for the
encouragement of the shipping interests of
the Atlantic, gulf aid Pacific states as well
as for the payment Of the maturing public
debt. This po:icv will give employment t"
labor, activity to '.ur various industries,
mote prosperity. OF ell new markets for oar
pr'"trce. and cheaper tie cost "t transpor-
sation We affirm this to he far better for
our country than the deinncratic policy of
lnan:ng the governments money without i'll
tervst tn pet banks.
The conduct of foreign affairs by the pres
ent administration has been hurting us by
its iuetfielency and cowardlce. Having
Withdrawn from the senate all pending
treaties effected by the republican almnis-
tration tor the removal of foreign burdens
and restrictions upon our commerce aud
:or its extension into better mark cts, it has
neither effected nor proposed any others Ill
their steitd Profess,n9 adherence to the
Monroe doctrine. it has seen, with Idle
com; m;.lacenc,, the extension of forei pn i'll
fluence III Central America and of foreign
rrade everywhere among our n.lGbbors.
Il has re Used to charter, sanction or en-
cf.Gra=s- any AneTlcau or4anlzat'nn Tor the
rs,,.s 5.,.cfl..u of the Nicaraguaa calai. q.
.yuak + VITA, l:3prta""e to the niainten-
sne- -. tie ,si"nIoe o"ctfIie and al our ia
ti,.nai influence IN Central an} South
Am, RIGA, and nece saary tor the devel !m"mt
of tra.l- w til S.'nt!I An,sri,:a ai,d with lie
| islands and furtbec coast of the Pacific
ocean.
We are indebted TO tn, present democrat
ic administration for its weak and unpatrI
otic treatment of the fisheries treaty
question, and its pusillanimous surrender
"f the essential privileges to which our
fishing vessels entitled in Canadian
ports under t. treaty uf 1918, the recip
rocal maritime legislation of 1880 and the
;onity of nations. and which Canadian fish
i;,n vessels receive i'll the ports of the United
States. We condemn the policy of the
present administration and of the demo-
| cratic majority i'll congress toward our fish