The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-12

while their votes would not be COZ :
trolling and their choice cannot be
eli cted
COMMON SCHOOLS.
The nation. not less than the State,
is dependent for prosperity and security
upon the intelligence and morality of
the people This common interest
very easily suggested national
aid in the establishment and endow-
ment of schools and colleges II
the new states there is, believe, at
prese an exigency that calls for still
more liberal and direct appropriations
IN aid of common school education.
THE ADMISSION OF STATES.
The Territorial form of government
is a temporary eXpediept, not a
permanent civi condition. 1t is sdspted
to the exigency that suggested it.. but
becomes inadequate and even oppres
sive when applied to fixed and popHious
communities. Several territories are
we'll able to bear the burdens and dis
charge the duties of tree COMMON
wealths in the American Union. To
exclude them is to deny the Just rights
VA bhCIA PCOpIO ohO Aboy wen O@ANASO
their idignant protest. No question OF
political preference of the ople
in q Territory should close
against them, the hospitable door
which have opened to two-thirds OF the
existing States. But admission should
be resolutely refused to any Territory
majority of whose people cherish in
situations that are repugDant to our
civilization or inconsistent with Re
publican form of government.
The declaration of the convention
against all
COMBINATIONS OF CAPITAL,
organized in trusts, or otherwise, to
control arbitrarily, the condition of
trade among our citizens are in har
mony with the views entertained and
publicly expressed by me long before
The assembling of the convention.
Ordinarily, capital shares the losses OF
idleness with labor, but under the OPP
Grafton of the trust, in some its forms,
the wage workers alone suffer the loss,
while idle capital receives its dividend
upon the trust fund. Producers who
destroyed and competition as an ele-
1t cannot be doubted that
the legislative authority should and will
| find g method of dealing fairly and
effectualiy with these and other abuses
connect ed with this subject.
1t can hardly be necessary for me to
say that l am heartily in sympathy
with the declaration OF the convention
upon
THE SUBJECT OF PENSIONS
to our soldiers and sailors. What they
gave and what had some opportunity
to observe, and, in a small measure, to
experience, they gave ungrudgingly. It
was not trade, but an offering. The
measure was heaped up, running over.
| What they achieved, only distant
generations can adequately tell. With
out attempting to discuss particular
propositions, | may add that a measure
/ in behalf of the surviving veterans OF
! the war and of the families of their dead
comrades, should be conceived and
executed in a spirit of justice and OF
the most grateful liberality.
CIVIL SERVICE.
IL competition for civil appoint
ment, honorable military service should
have an appropriate recognition. The
law regulating appointments to classi-
fed civil service, received my support
in the Senate in the belief that it opened
the way to much needed reform
still think so and, therefore. [ cordially
approve the clear and forcible express
sions of the convention upon this sub
! iect. The law should have friendly
Interpretation and be faithfully and
vigorously enforced. All appoint
ments under it shall be sbso-
luteIy free from partisan considera-
ton and influence. Some ex-
tension of the classified list are practic-
able and. desirable, and further iegis-
lation extending the reform to other
branches of thu service TO which 1t
is applicable would receive my
approval. In appointments to every
grade and department, fitness and not
party service, should be the essential
and discriminating test, and fidelity
and efficiency tbs only sure tenure fol
office Only the interests of the public
service should suggest removals from
office. | know there are practical diff
culties attending an attempt to apply
bu0 VI l0b civil sOINlCO W "a
appointments and removals. 1t will
however, be my sincere purpose, il
elected, to advance the reform.
notice with pleasure that the Con
ventiou cid not omit to express it,
solicitude for the promotion of virtue
and temperance among our people. Th'
Republican party has always beer
friendly to everything that tended tt
make the home life of our people free
pure and prosperous, and will, in tn,
future, be true to its history, in thi
respect.
OUR RELATION WITH FOREIGN POWERS
should be characterized by friendlines
and respect. The right of our people
and our ships to hospitable treatmen
should be insisted upon with dignit,
and 6rmness. Our nation IS too great
both in material strength and mora
power, to indulge in buster or TO b
suspected of nervousness. Vacilla
ton and inconsistency are as incom
patible with successful diplomacy a
they are with national dignity. W.
should especially cultivate and extent
orr diplomatic and commercial rela
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