Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-30

and Pacific States, as we'll as for the
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 tsansporta-
ton. We affirm this to be far better
for our country than the Democratic
policy of loaning the governments
money without interest to ''pet-
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray-
ed us by its inef1iciency 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having Withdrawn from the Senate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
anv others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc
trlne, it has seen with idle COM
placencv the extension of foreign
influence in Central America, and OF
foreign trade every where among our
neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American
organization for the construction OF
the Nicaragua Canal, work OF vita
importance to the maintenance OF
the Monroe Doctrine and of oul
national influence in Central and
South America, and necessary fol
the development of trade with Soutf
America and with the islands ant
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un
patriotic treatment of the fsherie
question, and its pusllanimous sur
render of the essential privileges t.
which our fishing vessels are entitle
in Canadian ports under the treat
of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg
islation Of 1880 and the comfy o
nations, and which Canadian tishin
vessels receive in the ports Of tn
United States.
We condemn the policy Of tn
present administration and the Demo
cratic majority in Congress towav
our fisheries as unfriendly and col
spicuously unpatriotie, and as tendln
r to destroy national industry and ii
dispersable resource of deien:
: against foreign enemy.
, The name Of "American" apple
r alike to all citizens of the Republi
and imposes on all alike the san
r obligation OF obedience to the law
e At the same time the citizenship
e and must be the panop|y and SAT
i guard of him who wears it a,
l. protect him, whether high or 10
e rich or poor, in all his civil Iigh
O 1t should and must afford him pr
J. lection at home and follow him al
i. protect him abroad in whatever lal
J. he NAV be, on lawful Grand.
e Men who abandoned the Repub
Y. can party IN 1884 and continue
il adhere to the Democratic party, ha
,e deserted, not only the cause of hone
" government, of sound finance, OF I
D. freedom and. purity of the ballot, +
\. especially have deserted the cause
re- reform in the civil service. We "
ID not fail to keep our pledges becat
,e they have broken theirs, or beca'
r. their candidate has broken his. '
X therefore repeat our declaration
se 1880, to wit: "Ihe reform Of
,p civil service auspic,ously beg
ne under Republican administrat
s. should be completed by a further I
of tension Of the reform system,
he ready established by law, to
ce grades of service to which it is
te picable. The spirit and purpose
to the reform should be observed in
,s- executive appointments, and all Il
he at variance with the object of ex
ing reform legislation should be
- pealed, to the end that the danger:
40 free institutions which Turk in
of power Of official patronage may
;,s wisely ana effectively avoided.
The gratitude Of the nation to
t,r defenders of the Union cannot
measured by laws. The leglsla'
!, of Congress should conform
q. pledges made by the loyal PEG
Il! an,! be so enlarged and extended
i, to provide against the possibility
'e any man who honorably wore
% Federal uniform shall become
u" inmate of an almshouse, or dope
nc X: ent upon private charity in
% presence OF an overlooking treas
'e 1t would be public scandal to
~ 'n less for those whose valorous serv
VI preserved the government. We
~ nounce the hostile spirit shown
'u President Cleveland in his nume1
~" ve.oes of measures for pension re
and the action Of the DemocI
nat House of Representatives in refu
ess even the consideration of gen
ION pension legislation in support Of
Ion principals herein enunciated.