Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-14

payment OF tae maturing puolfc ucDt.
THIS policy will give employment to
Dur labor, activity TO our various in-
dusfries, increase the security Of our
country, promote trade, open new
aud direct markets for our produce,
and cheaper the cost of ,ransporta-
,ion. We affirm this to be far better
for our country than the Democratic
policy of loaning the government
money without interest to pet
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray-
ed US by its inefIiciency and cowartlce;
having withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and re-
strictiors upon our commerce and for
it's extension into better markets,
it has neither effected nor proposed
any others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc.
trsne, it has seen with idle com
placency the extension of foreign
influence IN Central America, and Of
foreign trade everywhere among our
neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American
organization tor the construction Of
the Nicaragua Canal, work OF vital
Importance to the maintenance Of
the Monroe Doctrine aud of our
national influence in Central and
South America, and necessary for
the development of trade with South
America and with the islands and
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar:aisn the present Democratic
administration for its weak and I'M
patriotic treatment Of the fisheries
question, and its pns.I'animous sur
render OF the esse n,ial privileges to
which our fishing vessels are eutitlec
in Canadian ports under the treaty
of 1878, the reciprocal maritime leg
islation of 1880 and the comfy of
nations, and which Canadian fishing
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
our fisheries as unfriendly and con-
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tending
to destroy a national industry and in
dispensable resource Of defense
against a foreign enemy.
the name OF "Americann applies
alike to all citizens Of the Re Bile,
and imposes on all alike the same
obligation of obedience 70 the laws
At the same time the citizenship is
and mast be the panopiy and safe
guard of him who wears it and
protect hin, whether high or low,
rich or poor, in all lbs civil rights.
1t should and must afford him pro-
lection at home and follow him aud
protect him abroad in whatever land
ne may be, on Il lawful Grand
Men who abandoned the Repnhli,
can party IN 1854 and continue to
adhere to the Democratic party, have
deserted, not oni Y the cause Of houest
government, of sound finance, of the
freedom and purity ct the ballot, bu,
especially 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
1880, to wit: "lhe reform of the
civil service auspiclou>ly begun
under "A Republican administration
should be completed by IA further ex-
tension of the reform system, al
ready ">I&h3goe,l by law, to all
grades Of ~"rv!ts to which it is ap-
phnahi"o the spirit and purpose Of
th" reform >0orstt be observed in al
executive appointments, and all laws
at variance witi' the object Of rxa!-
ing reforuI legislation should be re-
pealed, to the end that Toe dangers to
FREE institutions wnjch Turk in the
power Of official patronage may be
wisely aud effectively avoided"
l'he gratitude Ct the nation 10 TIE
defenders of the Union cannot he
measured by laws. The legislation
% Congress should conform 10
pledges ,naae by tie loral peorle,
aud be so enlarged and extended as
to provide against the possibility that
any man who honorably wore the
Federal uniform shall become the
Inmate of an almshouse, or depend
'nt upon private charity in the
presence OF AN Overlooking treasury.
It would he IA public scandal to do |
less for those whose va,orous services
preserved the government. We de-
lonrce the hostile spirit shown hy |
President Cleveland in his numerous |
'etoes of measures for pension relief,
and the action Of the Democratic
House OF Representatives in refusing
wen the consideration OF general
Legislation in support Of the
principals herein enuncja,ed.
We invite the co-ooeratio,1 IF ro.