Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-23

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 inefIiciency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens aud 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
trine, 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 a, d
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar.aign the present Democratic
administration fer its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusiIlanimous 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
$ islation 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 unfriendly and con-
spcuously unpatriotie, and as tending
r to destroy national industry and in
l disp-nsable resource of defense
against foreign enemy.
n The name of "American" applies
r alike to all citizens of the Republic,
and imposes on all alike the same
r. litigation of obedience to the laws.
g At the same time the citizenship is
G and must be the panopIy and safe
Il guard of him who wears it and
J. protect him, whether high or low,
q rich or poor, in all his civil rights
o 1t shoulA and must afford him pro-
lection at home and follow him and
!. protect him abroad in whatever land
s. he may be, on lawful errand.
"a Men who abandoned the Republic
can party IN 1884 and continue tc
i, adhere to the Democratic party, have
70 deserted, not only the cause of honest
W government, of sound finance, of the
=. freedom ard purity of the ballot, bu,
!. especially have deserted the cause OF
-. reform in the civil service. We viii
"a not fail to keep our pledges because
10 they have broken theirs, or because
p. their candidate has broken his. We
\. therefore repeat our declaration o.
"a 1880, to wit: "rhe reform of the
10 civil service auspic'ously begun
~ under Republican administration
3. should be completed by further ex'
of tension of The reform system, al
"a ready established by law, to al
20 grad. of service to which it is ap
te pIicatlc. III" spri, and purpose o
~ the reform should be observed in a.,
"a. executive appointments, and all law.
"a a, variance with the object Of exis,
ing reform Legislation should be re
=. pealed, to the end that the dangers L
~ free institutions which Turk in tht
81 power Of official patronage nay bt
=. wisely an effectively avoided"
80 The gratitude Of the nation to tn,
- measured by laws. The !egislatio,
OF Congress should conform /.
=, ne pledges made by tire loyal people
n and be so enlarged and extended a
Is to provide against the possibility tina
Ne any man who honorably wore tn
II Federal uniform shall become tn,
IL inmate OF an almShouse, or depend
Ne ent upon private charity in tn,
IS presence OF an overlooking treasury
e. 1t would he public scandal to d,
IL less for thOSa " hose valOrpus service
u preserved the government. We de
"a no' nee the hostile spirit shown b,
III President Cleveland in his numerou
}" vetoes of measures for pension relief
and the action Of the Democrati
at House of Representatives in refusin.
IS even the consideration of genera
IN pension legislation in support OF tn
IN principals herein enumerated.
e, We invite the co-operatiQn of pa