Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-20

| pa'ment OF the maturing public debt
This policy will give employment ts
our labor, activity to our various in
dustrles, increase the security of oul
country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce
and cheaper the COS. of transporta
ton. We affirm this to be far better
for our country than the Democratic
policy of loaning the government
money without interest to '.pet
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray
ed US by its in-ificiency 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having withdrawn from the Senate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 fol
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 com
placency the extension Of foreign
influence in Central America, and of
foreign trade everywhere among our
neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American
organization for the construction of
he Nicaragua Canal, work of vital
importance to the maintenance of
the Monroe Doctrine and of our
national influence in Central and
South America, and ne cessarv for
the development of trade with South
America and with the islands and
farther coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
We ar:aign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusiIanimous sur
render OF the essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the treaty
of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg
islation of 1880 and the comfy of
nations, and which Canadian fishing
vessels receive in the ports of the
United States.
We condemn the policy of the
present administration aud the Demo-
cratic ma jority in Congress toward
our fisheries as unfriendy and con-
splcuously unpatriotie, and as tending
to destroy a national industry and in
disprnsuble resource of defense
against a foreign enemy.
The name Of "Amcrican" applies
alike to all citizens Of tie Republic,
and imposes on all alike the same
obligation of obedience to the laws.
At the same time the citizenship is
and must be the panoply and safe
guard OF him who wears it and
protect him, whether high or low,
rich or poor, in all his civil rights.
1t should and must afford him pro-
lection at home and follow him and
protect him abroad in whatever land
he may be, on lawful errand.
Men who abandoned the Republi.
can party In 1881 and continue to
adhere to the Democratic party, have
deserted, not only the cause of honest
of sound finance, of the
freedom aud purity of the ballot, bu,
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
therefore repeat our declaration of
1880, to wit: "Vhe reform of the
civil service auspic,ouslv begun
under Republican administration
should be completed by further ex-
tension Of tire reform system, al
Lady established by law, to all
grabs Of SERVICE to which it is ap-
o''cahIe. TIE spirit ard purpose of
he reform sho,'i be observed in al
Executive appointments, and al! laws
1t variance with the object Of exist
ng reform Legislation should be re.
'ealed, to the end tha, the dangers to
rec institutions which Turk in the
power Of official patronage may be
wisely AMI effectively avoided"
Ih" gratitude of the nation to the
defenders Of the Union carnot be
Measured by laws. The Les islation
t Congress should conform to
hedges made by the loyal people,
nd be so enlarged and extended as
. provide against the possibility that
ny man who honorablv wore the
'ederal uniform shall become the
innate of an almshouse, or depend.
mt upon private charity in the
resence OF AN overlooking treasury.
would be public scandal to do
SIS for those whose valorous services
reserved the government. We de.
ounce the hostile spirit shown by
resident Cleveland in his numerous
etoes of measures for pension relief.
I'd the action Of the Democratic
onse of Representative in refusing
zen the consideration of general
ens'on Legislation in support of the
'inrlpals herein Enumerated.
We invite the cooperation of pa.