Bent County register., 1888-06-30
NUMBER 3.

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and cheaper the cost of transporta-
ton. We affirm this to be far bet
ter for our country than the Demo-
cratic policy of loaning the govern
ments money without interest to
pet" banks.
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has dis
gusted us by its inefficiency and cow
ardice. Having withdrawn from the
Senate all pending treaties effected
by Republican administrations for
the removal of foreign burdens and
restrictions 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
trine, it has seen with idle compla-
cency the extension of foreign iufiu-
ence in Central America and of for
eIgn trade everywhere among our
neighbors.
1t has refused to charter, sanction
or encourage any American organi-
zation for constructing the Niagara
canal, work of vital importance to
the maintenace of the Monroe doc
trine, and of our national influence
in South and Central America, nee
essary for the development of trade
with the islands of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present Demo-
cratic administration for its weak
and unpatriotic treatment of the fish
cries question, and its pusillanimous
surrender of the essential privileges
to when our fishing vessels are en-
titled in Canadian ports under the
treaty of 1918. for the reciprocal
maritime legislation of 1880 and the
comfy of nations which Canadian
fishing vessels receive in the ports of
the Unitee States. We condemn the
policy of the present administration
and the Democratic majority in con-
gress toward our fisheries as un-
friendly and conspicuously unpatri-
otic, and as tending to destroy yal-
uable national industry and an in
dispensable resource of defense
against foreign enemy.
The name of American applies
alike to all citizens of the Republic
and imposes upon all alike the same
obligation of obedience to the laws;
at the same time that citizenship is
and must be the panoply and safe
guard of him who wears it, and pro-
tect him whether high or low,, rich
or poor, In all his civil rights. 1t
should and must afford him protec-
ton at home and follow and protect
him abroad in whatever land he may
be on lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Re-
publican party ir 1884, and continu-
ed to adhere to the Democratic par
ty, have deserted not only the cause
of honest government, of sound f.
nance, of the freedom and purity cf
the ballot, but especially have they
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 candi-
date has broken his. We therefore
repeat our declaration of 1880,
TO wit:
The reform of the civil service,
ausplciously begun under Republi-
can administration, should be COM
pleted by the further extension of
the reform system already establish
ed by law to all grades of service to
which it is applicable. The spirit
and purpose of reform should be oh.
served in all executive appoin tments
and all laws at variance with the
object of existing reform legislation
should be repealed, to the end that
it is dangerous TO free institutions,
by which the lack in power of offici-
al patronage may be wisely and eff
fectively avoided.
The gratitude of the nation to the
defenders 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 extended as