Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-24

payment of the maturing public debt.
This policy will give employment to
our labor, activity to our various in.
dustries, increase the security of our
country, promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce,
and cheaper the cost 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 inefliciency 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having Withdrawn from the Senate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 for
its extension into better markets,
it has neither effected nor proposed
any others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe Doc
trlne, 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
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 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 pusiIlanimous 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 and the Demo
cratic majority in Congress toward
our fisheries as unfriendly and con-
spicuously unpa.riotie, and as tending
to destroy national industry and in
dispensable resource Of defense
against a foreign enemy.
The name of "American" applies
alike to all citizens CT the 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 ard follow him and
protect him abroad in whatever land
he may be, on lawful errand.
Men who abandoned the Republi-
can party IN 1884 and continue to
adhere to the Democratic party, have
deserted, not only the cause of honest
government, of sound finance, of the
freedom and purity of the ballot, bu.
especially have deserted the cause of
reform in the civil service. We will
not fail to keep cur pledges because
they have broken theirs, or because
their candidate has broken his. We
therefore repeat our declaration of
1880, to wit: "The reform of the
civil service auspic,ously begun
under a Republican administration
should be completed by further ex-
tension Of the reform system, al
ready established by law, to all
grades of service to which it is APP
plcable. The spirit and purpose of
the reform should be observed in a.!
executive appointments, and all laws
at variance with the object of exist
ing reform legislation should be re-
pealed, to the end that the dangers to
free institutions which Turk 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 laws. The legislation
of Congress should conform to
pledges made by the loyal people,
and be so enlarged and extended as
to provide against the possibility that
any man who honorably wore the
Federal uniform shall become the
inmate of an almshouse, or depend
ent upon private charity 10 the
presence OF An overflowing treasury.
1t would be a public scandal to do
less for those whose valorous services
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 Democratic
House of Representatives in refusing
even the consideration OF general
pension legislation in support Of the
herein enumerated.