Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-22


er, and SO benefited indirectly by the
American system as to thrive and
gain riches, while thousands of men,
his equals in all senses, except oppor-
tunities, are striving or grovelling in
poverty in other countries.
The republicans will protect the
civil rights of the people. They have
given the ballot to every man who
has come to our shores, who has re-
NAMED in the country as faithful,
loyal citizen long enough, by the terms
or of the law, to receive it they gave
suffrage to the millions of the South
who were loyal in the years when
treason was rampant; they are Civ
ing and will give to every legal voter
the right to vote, and will count his
vote on the side where it was cast.
They are not in power by the means
of fraudulent voting or dishonest
counting; they have no hope or de-
sire to go into power again, if it can
be accomplished only by disfranchis-
ing thousands of men South or North,
and by counting out, where they can
not drive out by the shotgun and the
bludgeon. They propose to protect
the homes of the people by maintain
ing the common school wherever it
now exists, and by affording the
means of education to such, the country
over, as are in ignorance and illitera-
cy. For this end they have introduce
ed bills in congress, and propose to
eXpend money for the establishment
of schools in those sections of the
country where ignorance and crime
most abound.
The republican party proposes to
protect the government of the people
by promoting civil service reform.
The N asure was augmented by this
party, and it was instrumental in
making all the laws which have been
enacted in the United States on that
subject. The party never maintain
ed itself by farming out its offices ''for
revenue only" and was never gov
erned by the Tweeds of New York,
the Higgins of Maryland, the Jones
of New Hampshire, the Atkins of
Vermont, or by the political strikers
of any state.
Greater than the above, the party
purposes to protect the homes of the
people by such law restrictions of vice
and intemperance in every state, as
can be enforced, and by such meas
ures, always in advance of public
sentiment, as can be fairly maintain
ed. The party in the states of New
York, New Jersey and elsewhere, en-
tiers the contest as the anti saloon
party, and makes a holder challenge
in this line this year than ever was
made before by any party, having
any power for good. The party in
the future, as in the past, must be
relied upon to enact such anti-sump-
tuary laws as shall tend to protect
the home from the evils of intemper-
ance and other vices.
The republican party has courage
to protect the American citizen in all
his rights, whether it be along the
Canada fishery shores, or in the
far off land. They propose to grant
such treaties only as are just and
wise, and claim and hold all right
which they possess by treaty, while
they adhere strictly to the laws of
nations.
The party still holds to the view that
the patriot soldier is still entitled to
the love and gratitude of the country
for saving it from the hands of the
traitor, and remembers the widow
and the orphan, the manned and the
enfeebled who are made so by the
shock of war, and it will not exalt
to places of honor the former traitor,
or the unpatriotic copperhead, SO
long as the true and the noble can fill
the places of honor and of trust.
The prohibition party makes tenn
perance the great issue, and were it
possible in the nature of things to
accomplish good by their methods,
many temperance men would wish
the party godspeed. Unfortunately
those who vote the third party ticket
throw their votes to the wind or ac-
complish work of evil by indirectly
helping those who have no heart in
the great temperance contest. 1t
must be either Harrison or Cleve-
land, and all men must prepare, and
ought to vote for the success of one
of these men. If Harrison is the
better temperance man, vote for him,
if Cleveland and his party are the
best temperance reformers, vote the
democratic ticket.
There seems to be no serious in
tentiOn on the part of the Mormons
as body to abandon Utah and ex-
patriate themselves. Some expert
mental colonies have been started in
the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, but
though the tract of land taken up
there comprises 10000 acres, the to-
tai number of settlers does not exceed
600, and emigration thitherward has
practically ceased. Other colonies