The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-20

oul.lo Suo policy Oh Tie DcmOCEallC dQmlulo-
tration In its efforts to demonetize silver.
We demand the reduction of letter postage
to l cent per ounce.
In 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 intelli-
gence. The free-school is the promoter of
that intelligence which is to preserve Us q
free nation; therefore, the State or Nation,
or both combined, should support free insti-
tutions of learning. sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land, the opportunity
OF a good common-school education.
MERCHANT MARINE AND NAVAL DEFENSES.
We earnestly recommend that prompt &C
ton be taken by Congress in the enactment
of such legislation as will best secure the re-
Mobilization of our American merchant ma
rlne, and We protest against the passage by
Congress of a freeship bill, as calculated to
work injustice to labor by lessening the
wages of those engaged in preparing mate
rails, as we'll as those directly employed in
our ship-yards. We demand appropriations
for the early rebuilding of our navy; for the
construction of coast Notifications and mod
ern ordnance, and other approved modern
means of defense for the protection of our de-
fenseless harbors and cities; for the payment
of just pensions to our soldiers; for necessary
works of national importance in the improve
ment Of harbors and the channels of internal,
coastwise and foreign commerce; for the en-
couragement of the shipping interests of the
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific States. as well as
for the payment of the maturing public debt.
This policy will give employment to our
labor, activity to our various industries, in
crease the security of our country, promote
trade, open new and direct markets FOR our
nrod uoa and ohoopop tho mat IF fro ncnnvfa-
ton. We affirm this to be far better for our
country than the Democratic policy of loan
in9the government money without interest
to "pet banks"
COwARDICE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The conduct of foreign affairs by the pres
emit administration has been distinguished by
it's ineficiency and its cowardice. Having
Withdrawn from the Senate all pending treat
les effected by Republican administration for
the removal of foreign burdens and ~restric-
tons upon our and for its extern
sion into better markets, it has neither effected
nor proposed any other In their stead. Pro
Tossing 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 neigh
bors. 1t has refused to charter, sanction or
encourage any American organization for con-
structing the Nicaragua canal. a work of vital
importance to che maintenance Of the Monroe
doctrine, and of our national influence in
Central and South America, and necessary for
the development of trade with our Pacific
territory, with South America and with the
islands and further coasts of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic admin.
istration for its weak and unpatriotic treatment
of the fisheries question, and its pusillanimous
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 comfy
Of nations, and which Canadian fishing vessels
receive in the ports of the United States. We
ccEdemn the policy of the present administers
ton and the Democratic majority In Congress
toward our fisheries as unfriendly, and con-
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tending to
destroy a valuable national industry, and an
indispensable resource of defense against a
foreign enemy.
The name OF American applies alike to all
citizens of the Republic, and imposes upon all
alike the same obligations of obedience to the
laws. At the same time that citizenship is
and must be the. panoply and safeguard of
him who wears it, and protect him, whether
high or low, rich or poor, in his civil rights.
1t should and must afford him protection at
home. and follow and protect him abroad in
whatever land be may be on a lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republican
party in 1884, and continue to adhere to the
Democratic party, have deserted not only the
cause of honest government, of sound finances,
of freedom and purity Of the ballot, but espe-
cially have deserted the cause of reform in
the civil service. We will not fail to keep our
pledges because they have broken theirs. or
because their candidate has broken his. We,
therefore, repeat our declaration of 1884. to-
wit: '.The reform Of tho civil service, auspi-
ciously begun under the Republican admins
~tration, should be completed by the further
extension of the reform system already estab-
lished by law, to all the grades of the service
to which it Ia applicable. The spirit and pur-
pose of the reform should be observed in all
executive appointments, and all laws at vari.
ance with the object of existing reform legis-
lation should be repealed, to the end that the
danger to free institutions which Turk in the
power of official patronage may be wisely and
effectively avoided"
PENSIONS TO DEFENDERS OF THE UNION.
The gratitude of the Nation to the defend
ers of the Union cannot be measured by laws.
The legislation by Congress should conform
to the pledges made by a loyal people, and be
so enlarged and extended as to provide against
the possibility that any mar who honorably
wore the federal uniform shall become an in
mate OF an almshouse, or dependent upon
private charity. In the presence of an over
flowing treasury it would be a public scandal
to do less for those whose ~valorous service
preserved the government. We denounce
the hostile spirit shown by President Cleve-
| land in his numerous vetoes Of measures for
pension relief, and the action Of the Demo
| cratic House Of Representatives in refusing
even a consideration Of general pension legis-
lation.
II HOME, TEMPERANCE AND MORALITY.
The first concern of all good government is
| the virtue and sobriety of the people and the
purity of their homes. The Republican party
cordially sympathizes with all wise and we'll
directed efforts for the promotion of temper
ance and morality.
In support of the principles herewith nun-
ciated, We invite the cooperation of patriotic
men Of all parties, and especially of all work
ingmen, whose prosperity is seriously threat
ened by the free-trade policy of the present
administration
May BE Reversed.
Philadelphia Record.
The woman suffragists in Washington Terri
tory are not satisfied with the decision of the
territorial court declaring the law providing
that women may vote unconstitutional. The
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