Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-07-04


to do all in it's power to facilitate the admis-
sion of the Territories of New Mexico, Wy
oming, Idaho and Arizona to the enjoyment
of self-government as States, such of them
as are now qualified, as soon as possible,
and the Othersas soon as they may become
| so. .-'..
The political power of the Mormon
Church in the Territories, as exercised in
the past, is a menace to free institutions,
danger no longer to be suffered. There
fore we pledge the Republican party to
appropriate legislation asserting the SOW
ereignty of the nation in all the Terrific
ries where the same is questioned, and in
furtherance of that end to place on the
statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the ecclesias-
tical power and thus stamp out the attend
ant wickedness of polygamy. ,.r'.'.....
The Republican party is in favor of the
use of both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy of the Democratic ad-
ministration in its efforts to demonetize
silver. 49,. ~. 9 s's,t
We demand the reduction Of letter post
age to one cent per ounce.
In Republic like ours, where the citi-
zen is sovereign and the official servant,
where no power is exercised except by the
will Of the people, it is important that the
sovereign, the people, should possess in
telligence. The free school is the promo
ter of that intelligence which is to preserve
us as free nation; therefore, the State or
nation, or both combined, should support
| free institutions of learning sufficient to
afford to every child growing up in the
land opportunity for a good common-school
education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by Congress on the enact
} ment of such legislation as will best secure
the rehabilitation of our American mer-
chant marine, and we protest against the
passage by Congress of the free ship bill,
as calculated to work injustice to labor by
lessening the wages of those engaged in
preparing materials as we'll as those en-
ployed in our shipyards.
We demand appropriations for the early
rebuilding Of our navy; for the construc-
tion of coast Notifications and modern ord
nance, and other approved modern means
of defence for the protection Of our de-
fenceless harbors and cities; for the pay
| ment of just pensions to our soldiers; for
necessary works Of national importance in
improvement Of harbors and channels of
internal, of coastwise and foreign COM
merce; for the encouragement of the ship
ping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf and
Pacific States, as we'll as for the payment
of the maturing public debt. This policy
will give employment to our labor, activi-
ty to our various industries, increase these
curity of the country, promote trade, open
new and direct markets for our produce
and cheaper the cost and transportation.
We affirm this to be far better for the coun-
try than the Democratic policy of loaning
the governments money, without interest,
to "pet banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by the
present Administration has been dis
tinguished by its ineficiency and its cow
ardice. Having withdrawn from the
Senate all pending treaties effected by the
Republican Administration for the re-
moval of foreign burdens and restrictions
on our commerce and for its extension in
to better markets, it has neither effected
nor proposed any others instead. Profes-
sing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it
has seen with idle complacency the extern
sion of foreign influence in Central Ameri-
ca and foreign trade everywhere among
sanction or encourage any American or
ganization for constructing 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 de-
velopment of trade with the Pacific ter
ritory, with South America and with the
islands and coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
The name of America applies alike to
all citizens of the Republic, and imposes
on all alike the same obligation of obedi-
ence to laws. At the same time that citi-
zenship is and must be the panoply and
safeguard Of him who wears it and pro-
tect him, whether rich or poor, in all his
rights. It should and must afford him
protection in his home and follow and
protect him abroad in whatever land he
may be on lawful errand.
We arraign the present Democratic Ad
ministration for its weak and unpatriotic
treatment of the fisheries question, and
its pusillanimous surrender of the es-
sells are entitled in Canadian ports under
the treaty of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation of 1880 and the comfy of ma
tions, and which Canadian fishing vessels
receive in the ports of the United States.
We condemn the policy of the present
Administration and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress towards our fisheries as
unfriendly and conspicuously unpatriotic,
and as tending to destroy valuable ma
tional industry and an indispensable re-
source of defence against foreign enemy.
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 finance, of freedom, of purity of the
ballot, but especially have they deserted
the cause of reform in the civil service.
We will not fail to keep our pledges be-
cause they have broken theirs, or because
their candidate has broken his. We,
therefore, repeat our declaration of 1884,
to wit: The reform of the civil service,
auspiciously begun under the Republican
administration, should be completed by
the reform system already established by
law to all the grades Of the service to
which it is applicable. The spirit and
purpose of the reform should be observed
in all executive appointments, and all laws
at variance with the object of existing re-
form legislation should be repealed, to the
end that the dangers to free institutions,
which lurk in the power of official pat
ronage, may be wisely and effectively
avoided"
The gratitude of the nation to the de-
tenders of the Union cannot be measured
by laws. The legislation of Congress
should conform to the pledges made by the
loyal people, and be so enlarged and eX-
tended as to provide against the possibili-
ty that any man who honorably wore the
Federal uniform shall become an inmate OF
an aims house, or dependent upon private
charity. In the presence Of an overflow.
ing treasury it would be public scandal
to do less for those whose valorous service
preserved the government.
We denounce the hostile spirit shown
by President Cleveland in his numerous
vetoes of measures for pension relief and
the action of Democratic representatives
in refusing even consideration of general