New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-04

effected or proposed any others IN fheirstead.
Processing adherence to the Monroe doctrine,
it has seen with idle complacency the extern
sion 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
constructing the Nicaragua canal, awork of
vital Importance to the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine, and of our national inf1u-
ences In Central and South America and nee
essary for the development of trade with
our Pacific territory, with South America
and with the islands and further coasts ofthe
Pacific ocean.
THE FISHERIES
We arraign the present Democratic admin
lstratiOn for it's weak and unpatriotic treat
ment of the fisheries question, and its pusil-
luminous surrender of the essential privileges
to which our fishing vessel are entitled in
Canadian ports under the treaty of 1878,
the reciprocal maritime legislation of 1880
and the county of nations, and which Cana
dian 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 towards our
fisheries as urlfriendly and particularly UNI
patriotic, and as tending to destroy a valu-
able national industry and an indispensable
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 safeguard 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-
tection at home and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be in a law
full trade The men who abandoned the Re
publican party have deserted not only the
cause OF honest government, of sound finance
Or freedom and purity of the ballot, but es-
peclally 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 1884, to wit: HThe
reform of the civil service, auspiciously begun
under the republican administration. should
be completed by the further extension of the
reform system already established by law, to
all the grades of the service to which it is APP
plicable The spirit and purpose of the reform
should be observed in all executive appoint
ments, and all laws at variance with the OBJ
ject of existing reform legislation should be
repealed, to the end that the dangers of free
institutions, which Turk in the power ofofficial
patronage may be wisely and effectively
avoided" The gratitude Of the ma
ton to the defenders of the Union cannot be
" pJ AepMs. Lug icSisIetolou VI COLI
gress should conform to the pledges made by
a loyal people, and be SO en-
larged and extended as to provide
against the possibility that any man who
honorably wore the Federal uniform shall be-
come an inmate of an almshouse, or depend
ent upon private charity. In the presence Of
an oyerdowing treasury, it would de public
scandal to do less for those whose valorous
services preserved the government We de-
nO11nCa the hostile Snirjt shown hu ont
Cleveland in his numerous vetoes ofmeasures
for pension relief, and the action of the Dem
ocratic house of representatives in refusing
even consideration of general pension legis-
lation. In support of the principles herewith
enunciated, to invite the patriotic men of all
parties, and especially Of all workingmen
whose prosperity was seriously threatened by
the free trade policy of the present admins
tration.