Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-30

from the bona tide residents and citizens ri
VI me territory wherein they are to serve.
sou II Dakota should Of right he imipedi.
. htely admitted AS IA state in the union under
: the constitution fromcd and adopttd by he,
. people, and we heartily iuderse The action of
= .he heiublican senate In twice passing bills
. Tor ner admission. The refusal Of the Demo
: cratic mouse 81 representatives to consider
[, these bills is u williul violation Of the sacred
! American principle Of local self government
l ana merits the condemnation Of all lust men
Inc pehulng bills In the senate for acts ia
: ,haoie 'ne people or Washington, north Da-
hota ana Montana territories to form consti-
.u'Iohs ana establish state governments
should DE passed without unne ,essary DELAY.
anu 'he republican party pledges Itself TO dc
5 an IN us power to facilitate the admission Of
me territories OF New Mexico, Wyomirg.
iuaho ana Arizona to the enjoyment of sell
government rs states, such OF them MS are
now quailhed as soon rs possible, and the
others as soon as they become 20.
The political power IN the Mormon church
III lhe territories as exercised In the past is a
menace to free institutions too dangerous to
ne long suffered. Therefore we pledge tho
hepuollcan party TO appropriate legislation
asserting the sovereignty Of the nation in all
Tue territories where the same is questioned.
ana In furtherance OF that end place upon
the statute books legislation stringent enough
10 divorce the political from the ecclesiastical
power ana thus stamp out the attendant
Wlckedness, poiygamy.
me Republican party favors the use OF both
soii ana sliVcra as money, and condemns the
policy or the Democratic administration I'm
Its efforts to iemonetize silver.
Wedeinand the reduction of letter postage
TO ! cent per ounce in a republic like ours,
NneIe the citizen is the sovereign and the
official the servant.
Where no power Ia exercised except by the
VIII OF the people it ia important that the
soNetelgh people should possess intelligence.
ne Tree school is the promoter Of that intel
Igence which is to preserve our free nation.
therefore state or nation, or both combined.
should support tn" free institutions OF learn
ing sufticient TO afford to every child growing
up III inc iand an opportunity OF 4 good com
mon school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt ac-
tlon be taken in congress for the enactment
OF such legislation as will secure the rehabili-
tation OF our American merchant marine, and
we protest against the passage sy congress of
Il Tree snip Dill, as calculated to work inius-
tice TO labor 10y lcseening the wages OF those
engaged In preparing materials, as well as
those directly employed in our ship yards.
We demand appropriations for the early re-
pullulhg OF our navy, for the construction Of
coast ordinations and modern ordnance and
other approved modern means OF defense for
the protection of our Gcfenseless harbors and
cities; Tor the payment Of just pensions to
our soldiers; for necessary works Of national
Importance In the Improvement of harbers
ano channels OF internal coastwise and for
cign commerce.; for the encouragement OF
The shipping interests of the Atlantic, gulf
ana Pacific states, ar well as for the . yment
OF the maturing public -ebt. This policy will
give employment 10 our labor, activity 10 our
various Industries, increase the security OF
our country, promote trade, open new and
uirect markets for our products and cheaper
the cost OF transportation. We affirm this TO
be lar better Tor our country than the Demo
cratic policy OF loaniug the governments
money without interest to pet banks.
The conduct Of foreign affairs by the pres
ent administration has been distin guished ~
lleniclency and coWardice. Having with
drawn from the senate all pending treaties
effected by Republican administrations for
tnc removal OF foreign burdens and ~rcstric-
tons upon our and for it's exten
slons Into better markets, II has neither ef
fected nor proposed any others In their stead
Processing adherence to the Monroe doctrine
1t has seen with idle complacence the extern
sion or foreign influence Ia Central America,
OF foreign trade everywhere among our neigh
bors. IT has refused to charttr, ~sar"tion or
encourage any Ameri,a organ alton for
constructing the Nicaragua canal, a work OF
vital Importance to the maintenance If the
Monroe doctrine and of our ia, ional influence
In Central and South America, necessary for
the development OF trade with our Pacific ter
ritory, with South America, with the further
'ohets vi lHc Tdc'nc ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic admin
l~stratfon for its weak and unpatriotic treat
fnent OF the fisheries question and its pusil-
Luminous surrender Of all the privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled in
Canadian ports under the treaty OF 1918, the
reciprocal maritime legislation of 1880 and
the comfy OF nations which Canadian fishing
vessels receive In the ports OF the United
States. We condemn the policy Of the pres
ent administration aud the Democratic ma
jority In congress toward our fisheries as un-
friendly and conspicuouslv unpatriotic, and
as tending 10 destroy a valuable national In
dustry and All Indispensable resource Of de-
Tense against a foreign enemy.
The name American applies alike to all
citizens OF the republic and imposes upon all
alike the same Observation-Disclosures to the
laws. At the same time that citizenship 10
and must be the panoply and safeguard OF bim
who wears 1t and protect him, whether high
or low, rich or poor, in ali his civii rights. 1t
should and must afford him protection at
homc and follow and protect him aboroad In
whatever land he may be on lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republican
party In 1884 ana continue to adhere to the
Democratic party have deserted not only the
cause OF honest government, Of sound finance,
Of freedom aud purity Of the bail 4, but
especially have they deserted he cause If
reform In tte civil service. We Will not like
to keep our pledges because they have bronfa
theirs, or because their candidate has broken
mis-. We therefore repeat our declaration OF
1884, tOwit: The reform of the evil service,
auspiciously b gun under q Republican adj
minlstration, should be compl ted by the fur
ther extension Of the reform system already
established by law 10 all grades OF service TO
which 1T is applicable The spirit and pur-
pose OF reform should be obser yed in ali ex-
ecutive appointments and al laws at variance
with tn object OF the existing reform legis-
latioD should be repealed, that the dangers
to free Institutions which Turk In the power
OF local patronage may be wisely and effect
lively avoided.
The gratitude OF the nation to the defend
crs OF the union cannot be assured by the
present laws. The legislation OF congress
shouli conform to the pledges made by a
loyal people and be 70 enlarged and extended
as TO provide against the possibility that any
man who honestly wore a federal uniform
shall become an inmate OF an aims house or
dependent upon private charity. In the pres
ence Of an overlooking treasury it
would be a public scandal to do
less for those whose valorous service pre-
served the government. We depounce the
hostile spirit shown by President Cleveland
In his numerous vetoes OF measures for pen
sion relief and the action Of the Democratic
hOuse OF rPprs scntAtiype tu refusinp even cor-