Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-08-31

ton lOt otatenOOd, all OfhceTs .heTeO
should be selected from the bona idt
residents and citizens OF the Territor,
wherein they are TO serve. South Dakots
should Of right be Immediately admitted
as a State ia the Union, Under tine con.
stituuon framed and adopted by the
people, and we heartily indoIse the action
Of the Republican Senate in twice
passing bills for her admission. The
refusal Of the Democratic House ol
Representatives, for partisan purposes, 70
fayOrably consider these bills, is q wilful
violation Of the sacred American principle
| Of local selfgovernment, aud merits the
condemnation OF ali just men. The
| pending bills 10 the Senate for acts TO
enable the people Of Washington, North
! Dakota and Montana Territories to form
| constitutions should be passed without
unnecessary delay. The republican party
pledges itself to 30 all in its power to IA.
ciitaie the admission Of the territories Of
New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and 8ri.
zona TO the enjoyment Of selfgo, eminent
as states, such Of them as ere now quail.
red, as soon as possible, and the others as
soon as they may become so.
The political power Of the Mormon
church in the territories, as experienced in
the past, is a menace to free Institutions
too dangerous to be long suffered. There.
fore we pledge the republican party to ap.
proprate legislation asserting the sover-
eighty OF the nation in all territories
where the same Is questioned, and in
fuHherance Of that end to place upon the
statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the ecclesias-
teal power, and thus stamp out the
attendant wlckedness of polygamy.
The republican party is in favor Of the
use OF both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy Of the democratic
administration IN it's efforts to demonelize
silver.
We demand the reduction Of letter
postage to l cent per ounce.
10 a republic like ours, where The
citizen Is the sovereign and the official the
servant, where no power is exercised
except by the will of the people, it Is
important that the sOvereign-the people
should possess intelligence. The free
school is the promoter Of that intelligence
which is TO preserve us a free nation
therefore, the state or nation, or both
combined, should support tree institutions
OF learning, sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the laud the oppor
tunty OF good common school elu.
cation.
We earnestly recommend that promp
action be taken by Congress in the en-
actment OF such legislation as Will be I
secure the rehabilitation ol our Ancrcau
merchant marine, and we protest against
the passage by Congress of a ir.r shlp
hill, as calculated to work injustice 90
labor by lessening the wages Of tnose
engaged in preparing materials, as well
as those directly employed in our ship
yards. We demand appropriations for
the early .ebuilding OF our navy; for the
construction Of coast Notifications and
modern ordnance, and other approved
modern means of defense for the plotec.
ton OF our defenseless harbors and
cities; tor the payment of just pensions
to our soldiers; for necessary works Of
National importance in the improvement
of harboIs and the channels Of internal
coastwlse, and foreign commerce.; for the
encouragement Of the shipping interests
Of the Atlantic, Gulf aud Pacific States, as
well as for the payment OF the maturing
public debt. This policy will give em.
plOymenl to our labor activity to our va.
rious Industries, Increase the security of
our country, promote trade, open new
aud 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 to
'pet banks.
The conduct Of foreign affairs by the
present administration has been dstin-
guished by its ineticlency 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.
merco and for its extension into better
markets, 10 has neither effected nor pro-
posed any Others IN their stead. Profess
ing adherence To the Monroe doctrine, il
has seen with idle compacency the exteu.
sion at foreign influence IN Central
America, and Of foreign trade everywhere
among our neighborS.' Ii 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 ct our national influence IN
Central and South America, and urces.
sary for the development OF trade with
ouT Pacific territory, with South America
and with the islands and further coasts of
the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present democratic ad.
mlnlsITation Tor its weak and unpatrionc
treatment OF the hshenes question, aud
its puSillsmmous surrender Of the oosen.
ual privileges 10 which our fishing vessels
ate entitled in Canadian ports under the
treaty Of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation OF lSjo, and the comfy OF
nations, aud which Canadian fishing YES.
sells receive in the ports OF the United
States. We condemn the policy OF the
present administration and the demoetalic
majority Ia Congress toward our fisheries
as uniTiendly and conspicuously unpatri.
o'lc, and as tending 10 destroy a valuable
national industry, and al indispensable
resource OF defense against loreign
enemy,
The name Of America applies alike TO
all citizens OF the republic, and imposes
upon all alike the same obligations OF
obedience 10 the laws, AZ the same time
that citizenship is aud must he the nan.