San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-22
ghe 1ailY Eight.
FRIDAY, June, 22, '88

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essary for the development of trade
with our Pacific territory, South
America, and with the islands and
further coasts of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present democratic
administration for its weak and I'M
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and it's pusillanimous sur
render of the essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the treaty of
1878, the reciprocal maritime legisla-
ton of 1886. and the comfy of nations,
and which Canadian fishing vessels
receive in ports of the United States.
We condemn the policy of the pres
ent administration and democratic
majority in congress towards the fish
cries as unfriendly and cOnspicuously
unpatriotic, and as tending to destroy
valuable national industry and in
dispensible resource of defense against
a foreign enemy. The name of Amer
lean applies alike to all citizens of the
republic and imposes upon all alike
the same obligations of obedience to
the laws. At the same time that citi-
zenship is and must be panOply and
safeguard of him who wears it, and
protect him whether high or low, rich
or poor, in all his right. 1t should
and must afford him protection at
home and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be on
lawful GRAND.
The men who abandoned the repub-
lican party in 1884 and continue 10 adj
here to the democratic party have de-
serted not only the cause of honest
government; sound finance and the
freedom and purity of the ballot, but
especially have 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
candidate has broken his. We there
fore repeat our declaration of 1884,
that the reform of the civil service, IS
auspiciously begun under republican
administration, should be completed
by further extension of the reform sys-
tenn, as already established by law, to
all grades of the service to which it is
applicable. The special purpose of
civil service reform should be OBJ
served in all executive appointments
and all laws at variance with the OBJ
ject of existing reform legislation
should be repealed to the end that the
dangers to free institutions which
lurk in the power of official patronage
may be wisely and effectively avoided.
The gratitude of the nation to the
defenders of the Union cannot be
measured by the laws. Legislation
of congress should conform to the
pledges made by loyal people, and be
so enlarged and extended as to pro-
vide against the possibility that any
man who honorably wore the federal
uniform shall become an inmate of an
almshouse or dependent upon private
charity. In the presence of an over
flowing treasury it would be a public
scandal to do less for those whose
valorous service preserved the govern
ment. We denounce the hostile spirit
shown by President Cleveland in his
numerous vetoes of measures for pen
sion relief, and the action of the DEM
ocratic house of representatives in re-
fusing even consideration of general
pension legislation in support of the
principle here enunciated.
We invite the cooperation of patri-
otto men of all parties, especially of all
workingmen, whose prosperity is so
seriously threatened by the free trade
policy of the present administration.