The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13
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the state dependent for prosperity upon
the intelligence and
MORALITY OF THE PEOPLE.
Their common interest very early sug-
pested national aid in the establishme mt
and endo 4ment of schools and colleges in
new states. There is, l believe, a present
exigenoy that calls for still more liberal
and direct appropriations in aid of com
mon school education in the
states. The latest idea of the
government is a temporary
exps dent not a permanent civil ooHdl-
tion. 1t is adapted to the exigency that
suggested it, bat becomes inadequate and
then oppressive when applied to fixed and
populous communities.
SEVERAL TERRITORIES
are we'll able to bear the burdens and
discharge the dutiss of free common
wealth ia the American union. To ex-
cluds them is TO deny the just rights of
their people, and may well excite their
indignant protest. No question of politi
cal preference of a people of territory
should close against them the hospiteble
door which has opened to two thirds of
the existing states, but admission should
be refused to any territory, majority of
whose people cherish institutions that are
repugnant to our civilization or incon-
sistent with the republican form Of gov
eminent.
The declarations of the convention
against all combinations of capital,
ORGANIZED IN TRUSTS
or otherwise, to control the condition of
trade among our citizens is in harmony
with the views entertained and publicly
expressed by me long before the as
s-mbling of the convention. Ordinarily,
capital shares the losses of idleness with
labor, but, under the operation of the
trusts, in some of forms, wage workers
alone suffer loss, while idle capital receives
its dividends from n trust fund. Pro-
du,ers who refuse to join the combination
are destroyed and competition as an
element of prices Is eliminated. 1t can
not be doubted that legislative authority
should and will find methods OF dealing
fairly and effectually with these and other
abuses connected with this subject. 1t
can be hardly necessary for me to say
am heartily in sympathy with the declara
ton of the convention upon the
SUBJECT OF PENSIONS
to our soldiers and sailors. What they
gave and what they suffered had some
opportunity to observe, and in
small measure TO experience.
They gave ungrudgingly. 1t was
not trade, but an Offering. The measure
was heaped, running over. What they
achieved only distant generation can
adequately conceive. Without attempting
to discuss particular propositions, may
I.al. Al
viviDg 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,
and that, in competition for civil appoint
ments, honorable military service should
have appropriate recognition. The laws
RELOCATING appointments to classified
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 expression of the convention
upon this subject. The laws should have
the aid of friendly interrpetation and be
most vigorously enforced. All appoint
ments under it should be absolutely free
from partisan considerations and in
fluence. Some extensionsNof the classified
list are practical and desirable, and fur
Their legislation, extending the reform to
other branches of the service to
which it is applicable, would re-
,ceive my approval. In appointments
to every grade and department. fitness
and not party service ehould be the essen
tial and the discriminating test, and tldel
ity and efficiently the only sure tenure OF
Office. Only the interests of the public
service should suggest removals from of
flee. know the difficulties attending the
attempt to apply the spirit of civil service
rules to all appointments and removals. 1t
will, however, be my sincere purpose, if
elected, to advance the reform. l notice
with pleasure that the convention did not
omit to express its solicitude for the pro-
motion Of
VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE
among our people. The republican party
has always been friendly to everything
that tended to make the home life of our
people free, pure and prosperous, and is
will in the future be true to its history in
this respect.
OUR RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN POWERS
should be characterized by friendliness
and respect. The right of our people and
our ships to hospitable treatment should
be insisted upon with dignity and firm
ness. Our nation is too great, both in
material strength and in moral power, to
indulge in buster, or to be sus-
pected CT timorousness. Vacillation and
Inconsistency are as incompatible with
successful diplomacy as they are with
national dignity. We should especially
cultivate and extend our diplomatic and
commercial relations with Central and
South American states. Our fisheries
should be fostered and protected. The
handicaps and risks that are necessarily
incident to the business should not be
increased by any unacceptable exclusion
from near-lying ports. The resources OF
firm, dignified and consistent diplomacy
are undoubtedly equal to the prompt
and peaceful solution of the difficulties
that now exist. Our neighbors will surely
not expect in our ports commercial
hospitality that they deny to us in theirs
cannot extend this letter by special ref
erence to other subjects, upon which the
convention gave an expression. In re
spect to them, as we'll as to those l have
noticed, am in entire agreement with
THE DECLARATIONS OF THE CONVENTION.
The resolutions relating to coinage, tC
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