Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1888-07-28

the passage by congress OF free ship
bill as calculated to wo-l. injustice to La
Dor by lessening the wages of those engag-
Ell in preparing materials, as well as those
directly employed in our ship yards. !,
We demand an appropriation for the
early rebuilding Of our navy, for the con-
struotion OF fort foltificai ions and modern
ordnance and other approved modern
means of defense, for the prEeajon OF
our defenselsss harbors and cities, for the
payment OF just pensions to our soldiers,
Tor necessary works Of national impor-
tance, an improvement OF the harbors
and channels Of o1r internal, coastwise
and foreign commerce, for the encour-
agement OF the shipping interests OF the
| Atlantic. Gulf and Pacific states, as well
as for the payment OF mafuring public
debts This policy viii give employment
| to our labor, activity to our various in
dustrics, increase the security of our
country, promote trade, open new and
! direct markets for our Produce and chea-
! pen the cost OF transportation. We affirm
! this to be far better for our country than
the democratic policy Of loaning the gov
ernment's money without interest to
| ''pet" banks.
The cndouct OF foreign affairs by the
present administration has been injuring
US by its inefficiency and cowardice.
Having withdrawn from the senate all
pending treaties effected by republican
administration for the removal of foreign
burdens and restrictions upon our COM
mercc, and for its extension into better
markets, it has neither effected or propo-
| sed any other in their stead. Protesting
adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it has
seen with idle complacency the extension
| of foreign influence in Central America
| and of foreign trade everywhere among
our neighboYs. IL has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American or
ganzation for constructing the Nicara-
guam canal, work of vital Importance to
the maintenance OF the Monroe doctrine
| and oil our national influence in South
America and with the islands, and fur
| ther, of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present democratic
administration for its weak and unpatri-
otic treatment OF the fisheries question
and its puslanimous surrender of the
essential privileges to which our fishing
vessels are entitled in Canadian ports
under the treaty Of 1918, the reciprocal
| maritime legislation OF 1880, and the so
| nity of nations, and which Canadian fish
| ing yesse,s receive in the ports of the
! United States. we condemn the policy
of the present administration and the
democratic majority in congress towards
our fisheries, us unfriendly and conspicu-
ouslv unpatriotic, and as tending to de-
strov valuable national industry and
| indispensabls resource OF defense against
the foreign enemy.
The name OF American applies alike to
all citizens OF the republic, and imposes
upon all alike the same obligation OF obe-
dicnce 10 laws, at the same time that cit
iaenship is AMI must be the panoply and
Safeguard OF him who wears it, and pro-
tect him, whether high or low, rich or
poo,, in all his civil rights it should and
must afford him protection at home and
ollow and protect him abroad in whatey-
er land he may be on lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the republic
can party in "a and continue to adhere
to the democratic party have deserted
not only the cause of honest government,
of sound finance, OF freedom and the pn-
rity OF the ballot, but especially have de-
serted the cause OF reform in the civil
service. We will not wait 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 The reform Of the civil ser
vice auspiciously begun under republi-
can administration, should be completed
by further extension OF the reform sys-
tenn already established by law to gu
grades of service TO which it is applicable
The spirit andpurpose OF reform should
be observed in all executive appoint
ments; and all laws at variance with the
object OF existing reform legislation
should be repealed, to the end that the