Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-25

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 in
dustries, increase the security of our
country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce,
and cheaper the cost of transporta
ton. 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 ineiliciency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and re-
strictions upon our commerce and for
its extension into better markets,
it has neither effected nor proposed
any others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc.
trlne, 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 for the construction OF
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 South
America and with the islands aud
farther coasts Of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar-aign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusi'lanimous sur
render of the essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the treaty
Of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg
isation 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 unfrlendly and con-
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tending
to destroy a national industry and in
dspensable resource of defense
against u foreign enemy.
The name of "American" applies
alike to all citizens of the Republic
and imposes on all alike the same
r obligation OF obedience to the laws
1T the same time the citizenship i.
, and must be the panoply and safe
| guard of him who wears 1t anc
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 him auc
protect him abroad in whatever lane
= he may be, on lawful errand.
c Men who abandoned the Republi
J. can party IN 1884 and continue t,
+ adhere to the Democratic party, have
{ deserted, not only the cause OF hones
v government, OF sound finance, of th'
= freedom and purity Of the ballot, bu
: especially have deserted the cause o
e reform in the civil service. We vii
d not fail to keep our pledges because
e they have broken theirs, or becaus
their candidate has broken his. w
: therefore repeat our declaration O
e 1880, to wit: "Ihe reform of tn
. civil service auspiclousIy brgul
e under Republican administration
). should be completed by a further ex
II tension Of the reform system, al
e ready established by law, to a!
e grades OF service to which it is APP
e pIicable. The spirit ard purpose o
o the reform should be observed in a.
) executive appointments, and all law
e at variance with the object of exis.
ing reform legislation should be re
# peaied, to the eud that the dangers t
$ free institutions which Iurk in tn
+ power OF official patronage may b
: wisely and effectively avoided"
The gratitude of the nation to tn
NJ defenders Of the Union cannot b
measured by laws. The legislatio
. of Congress should conform t
pledges made by the loyal people
. and be so enlarged and extended a
to provide against the possibility tina
amy man who honorably wore tn
Federal uniform shall become III
. inmate OF an almshouse, or depend
i ent upon private charity in tn
" presence OF an OVERLOOKING treasur,
1t would be public scandal to d
less for those whose valorous service
! preserved the government. We de
= nounce the hostile spirit shown b
= President Cleveland in his numerou
= vetoes Of measures for pension relic
and the action Of the Democrat
! House Of Representative in refusin