Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-03

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payment of the maturing public debt.
This policy will give employment to
our labor, activity to our various in
dustres, 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 inefIicency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected BY the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and 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.
trne, 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
5 the Monroe Doctrine and of our
, national influence in Central and
South America, and necessary for
the development of trade with South
e America and with the islands and
Y farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar:aign the present Democratic
). administration for its weak and un
=. patriotic treatment of the fisheries
: question, and its pusillanimous sur
0 render of the essential privileges to
= which our fishing vessels are entitled
s in Canadian ports under the treaty
j. of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg
s islation of 1880 and the comfy of
S nations, and which Canadian fishing
J. vessels receive in the ports Of the
J. United States.
9 We condemn the policy Of the
S present administration and the Demo
n cratic majority in Congress toward
a our fisheries as unfriendly and con-
j. spicuously unpatriotie, and as tending
n to destroy national industry and in
d dispensable resource of defense
j. against foreign enemy.
n The name Of "American" applies
,r alike to all citizens of the Republic,
l. and imposes on all alike the same
,r obligation of obedience to the laws.
,e At the same time the citizenship is
.e and must be the panoply and safe.
al guard of him who wears it and
n protect him, whether high or low
&c rich or poor, in all his civil rights
to 1t should and must afford him pro.
n. lection at home and follow him and
i. protect him abroad in whatever land
s. he NAV be, on lawful errand.
,e Men who abandoned the Republic
v. can party IN 1884 and continue tt
If adhere to the Democratic party, have
ne deserted, not only the cause of honest
W government, of sound finance, of the
O. freedom and purity of the ballot, bu
n. especially have deserted the cause o
re reform in the civil service. We will
ID not fail to keep our pledges because
ne they have broken theirs, or because
,r- their candidate has broken his. We
x therefore repeat our declaration o
ee 1880, to wit: "The reform of thu
~ civil service auspic,ously begul
he under Republican administration
IS. should be completed by further ex
of tension of the reform system, al
he ready established by law, to al
ce grades Of service to which it is ap
tie plicable. The spirit and purpose O
70 the reform should be observed in a.
IS. executive appointments, and all law
he at variance with the object of exist
ing reform legislation should be re
of pealed, to the end that the dangers t
.s free institutions which Turk in tn
Of power Of official patronage may h
- wi elv and effectively avoided"
" The gratitude of the patton to tn
bow defenders Of the Union cannot b
measured by laws. The legislatio
/. of Congress should conform
81, ne pledges made by the loyal peopl'
~. and be so enlarged and extended {
t., - to provide against the possibility thu
r nc any man who honorably wore tn
% Federal uniform shall become tn
~, II inmate of an almshouse, or depenc
=; ;s ent upon private charity in tn
% presence of an OVERLOOKING treasur.
.e- 1t would be public scandal to d
~ ~ less for those whose valorous service
vi preserved the government. We d.
'.I nounce the hostile spirit shown b
"o President Cleveland in his numerot
~" vetoes of measures for pension relic
and the action of the Democrat
nat House of Representatives in refusin
eSs even the consideration Of gener
10" pension Legislation in support of tt
l.