Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-29

markets for our produce, and cheaper
the cost of transportation. We affirm
this to be far better for our country
than the Democratic policy of leaning
Government money without interest
to ''pet banks"
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
The conduct OF our foreign affairs
by the present administration has
been compromising Ills by its inofficicn-
c. and cowardice. Having Withdrawn
from the Senate all pending treaties
effected by the Republican Admins
tration fo.' the removal oi foreign bar
dens and restrictions upon our COM
merce, and for its extension into bet
ter markets, it has neither effected or
proposed any others in their stand.
Processing adherence TO the Monroe
doctrine, it has seen, with idle COM
placency, the extension of foreign i'll
fluence in Central America, and of
foreign trade everywhere among our
neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage the 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 Amer
lea, and with the Islands and further
coast of the Pacific ocean.
THE FISHERY QUESTION.
We are indebted to the present
Democratic Administration for its
weak and unpatriotic treatment of the
fisheries treaty question and its
pusillanimous surrender of the es-
sential privileges to which our fsh-
ing vessels arc entitled in Canadian
ports under the treaty of 1918, the
reciprocal maritime legislation of
1880, and the committee 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
Democratic majority in Congress to.
ward our fisheries as unfriendly and
conspicuously unpatriotic, and rs in
tending to destroy national industry
and indispensable resource of defense
against foreign enemy.
The narrio of American applies alike
to all citizens of the Republic and I'M
poses on all alike the same obligation
Of obedience to the laws. At the
same the that citizenship must be a
psno: Is and safeguard to him who
wears it and should protect him,
wheth high or low, rich or poor, in
all his civil rights. It should and
must afford him protection at home
and follow him and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be
on lawful errand.
MUGwAUMPERY DENOUNCED.
Men who abandoned the Republi-
can party in 1884 and continue to
adhere to the Democratic party, have
deserted not only the course of homes;
government, of sound finance, of free,
dom and purity of the ballot, but es-
pecially have they 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. Therefore we repeat our declara-
tions of 1880, to-wit Reform of
civil service, auspiciously begun un-
der the Republican Administration,
should be continued by the further
extension of the reform system al
ready established by law to all grades
of the service to which it is applicable.
The spirit should be repealed to the
end that the danger to free institu-
tions, which lie in the power of
official patronage, may be wisely and
effectively avoided"
GRATEFUL REPUBLIC.
The gratitude Of the nation to the
defenders of the Union cannot be
measured by laws. The legislation
Of Congress should conform to the
pledges by loyal people, and be SO
enlarged and extended as to provide
against the possibility OF any man
who wore federal uniform becoming
dependent on private charity. In the
presence Of an overflowing treasury,
it would be public scandal to do less
for those whose valorous services pre-
served the government.
We denounce the hostile spirit
shown by President Cleveland in his
nunl.rou vetoes OF measures for pen
sion relief, and the action of the
Democratic House of Representa-
tives in refusing even the considera-
ton of general pension legislation in
support of the principle herein emu
merated. We invite comparison of
the patriotic men Of all parties, and
especially all working men who see
their prosperity is seriously threat
ened by the free trade policy of the
present administration.
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OVER one-fourth of all the timber cut
on Puget Sound has been cut from
lands in Snohomish county, and fully
one-half of all the timber remaining
standing, within the Puget Sound ba-
sin, is to be found within the limits OF
this county. The area of Snohomish
county is about $500 square miles or
not far from 100000 acres of land,