Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-27

The conduct of foreign affairs by the present
administration has been stinguished by its in
efficiency and It's cowardlce Having wlthdraWn
from the Senate all pending treaties effected by
Republican administration for the removal or
foreign burdens and restrictions upon our
commerce and Tor the extension INTO 9e ate1
Others in their stead. Protesting adherence to
the Monroe doctrine. it has seen with idle COM
Central America and of foreign trade every
where among our ne;ghbOrs. 1t has lefuseu
to charter, SANCTION or encourage any
the Nicaragua Canal, a work of vita! importance
TO the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and
of our national influence in Central and south
America; and necessary for the deVelopment t OF
America, and with the islands and tu1ther coasts
of the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic ADM MS
tration for its weak and unpstriotic treatment OF
the fisheries question and its pusillanimous sur
render of the essential privileges to which our
fishing vessels entitled in Canadian ports W.
der the treaty of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
LEGISLATION of 1880, nd the comfy Of nations.
and which Canadian fishing vessels receive in
the ports of the United States.
We condemn the policy of the present admin.
istration and the Democratic majority in Con-
gress towards our fisheries as unfr1end.y aud
conspicuously unpatriotic, and as tending to de-
stroy valuable national industry and an lnd1s-
pensable resource of defense against foreign
enemy.
The name of American applies alike to all citi-
zens of the republic and imposes upon all alike
the same obligation otobedience 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 ali his civil rights. 1t should and must
afford him protection at home and follow and
protect him abroad In whatever land he may
be on lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republican par
ty in 1884, and continue to adhere 10 the Demo-
cratic party in 1858. have deserted not only the
cause of honest government cot sound finance, OF
freedom and purity of the ballot, but especially
have deserted the cause of reform in the civil
cause they have broken theirs, or because their
candidate has broken his We therefore repeat
our declaration of 1884, tO-Wit: " The
ciously begun under the Republican
administration should be completed by the fur
ther extension of the reform system already es
tablished by law, to all the grades of the service
to which 1t is applicable. The spirit and pur-
pose of the reform should be observed in all ex-
ecutve appointments and all laws at variance
with the object of existing reform legislation
should be repeated to the end that the dangers
to free institutions which Turk In the power OF of
fetal patronage may be wisely and effectively
avoided"
The gratitude OF the nation to the defenders Of
the Union cannot be measured by laws. The
pledges made by q loyal people, and be so en-
larged and extended as to provide against the
Possibility hat asGero man Wh9 honor
become an inmate of an almsnouse
or dependent upon private charity In the
presence of an ove1fowing treasury it would be
public scandal to do less for those whose valor-
Gus service preserved the government. We de-
nounce the hostile spirit shown by President
Cleveland in his numerous vetoes of measures
for pension relief, and the action of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives in refusing even
q consideration of general pension legislation.
In support OF the principles herewith enun-
ciated we invite the cooperation of patriotic
men OF all parties and especially of all working
men whose prosperity is seriously threatened by
the free trade policy of the present administra