Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-31

] well as iOr Lne payment VI blG Mabulluk
public debt. This policy will give EN-
ployment to our labor, activity to our va
rious industries, Increase the security o
our country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce, and
cheaper the cost Of transportation. We
affirm this to be far better for our country
than the democratic policy of loaning the
government money without interest tc
! ''pet banks.
The conduct of foreign affairs by the
present administration has been distin.
guished by its inefficiency and Its coward.
| ice. Having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by republican
administration for the removal of foreign
burdens and restrictions upon, our com.
merce ana for its extension into better
markets, it has neither effected nor pro-
posed any Others IN their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it
has seen with ids complacency the extern
sion Of foreign influence III Central
America, aud Of foreign trade everywhere
among our neighbors. 1t has refused TO
charter, sanction or encourage any Amer.
Ican organization for constructing the
Nicaragua canal, a work OF vital import
ance to the maintenance Of the Monroe
doctrine, and Of our national influence in
Central and South America, and neces-
sary for the development Of trade with
our Pacific territory, with South America
and with the islands and further coasts Of
the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present democratic ad-
mnistration for its weak and unpatTiotlc
treatment of the fisheries question, and
its pusillanlmous surrender of the essen
ual privileges to which our fishing vessels
are entitled in Canadian ports under the
treaty of 1878, the reciprocal maritime
legislation of 1890, and the comfy Of
nations, and which Canadian fishing yes.
sells receive in the ports of the United
States. We condemn the policy of the
present administration and the democratic
majority in Congress toward our fisheries
as uniriendly and conspicuously unpatri-
otic, and as tending to destroy valuable
national industry, and an indispensable
resource Of defense against a foreign
enemy.
The name Of America applies alike to
all citizens of the republic, and imposes
obedience 10 the laws. At the same time
that citizenship is and must be the pan.
opy and safeguard of him who wears it,
and protect him, whether high or low,
rich or poor, in his civil rights. 1t should
ana must afford him protection at home,
and follow and protect him abroad in
whatever land he may be on a lawful
eTand.
The men who abandoned the republican
party in 1854, aud continue to adhere to
the democratic party, have deserted not
only the cause Of honest government, of
sound finances, Of Fre"dom and purity of
the ballot, but especially have deserted
the cause Of refo,m in the civil service.
We will not taii TO keep our pledges be-
cause they have broken theirs, or because
iher candidate has broken his. We,
therefore, repeat our declaration of 1884,
to wit; The reform of the civil service,
auSpiciously begun under the republican
should be completed by
the further extension of the reform system
already established by law, to all the
grades of the service to which it is apple.
able. The spirit and purpose of the re-
form should he observed in all executive
appointments, and all laws at variance
with the object of existing reform legIsla-
tion should be repealed, to the end that
The danger to free institutions which turks
in the power of official patronage may be
wisely and effectively avoided"
The gratitude of the nation to the de.
tenders of the union can not be measured !
by laws. The legislation of Congress
should conform to the pledges made by |
loyal people, and be so enlarged and ex-
tended as to provide against the possibility |
hat any man who honorably wore the |
federal uniform shall become the inmate |
# an almshouse, or dependent upon |
private charity. In the presence of an |
treasury it would be public |
scandal to do less for those whose valor.
,uS service preserved the government. |
We deuounce the hostile spirit shown by |
President Cleveland in his numerous
'rtoes Of measures for pension relief and |
he action of the democratic house of
representatives. iu refusing even consid-
ration OF general pension legislation.
In support Of the principles herewith
we invite the cooperation OF
'atriotic men of all parties, and especially
u all workIugmen whose prosperity Is
eriously threatened by the free trade
,odcy Of the present administration.
additional plank submitted by Mr..
}auJelle of Maine, and adopted by an
lmuSt unanimous vote: The first cen.
vrn ut all gooi government is the virtue
nd snhrie,y of the people and the purity
{ the home. The republican party
ordia'lv sympathizes with all wise and
.c!t t!,i ctrd cfInr'S for the promotion of
p',.rau-r rrd morality.