Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-06

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our labor, activity to our various In
dus,ries, 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 loaniny the government
money without interest to ''pet-
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray-
ed US by its neilciency 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having Withdrawn from the Senate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
trine, 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 pus'lanimous 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 aud the Demo
cratic majority in Congress toward
our fisheries as unfriendly and con-
spicuously unpatriotic, and as tending
to destroy national industry and in
dispensable resource Of defense
against forei gu enemy.
The name of "American" applies
alike to all citizens of 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 panop'y and safe
guard of him who wears it and
protect Kim, whether high or low,
rich or poor, in al 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 "a lawful Grand.
Men who abandoned the Republic
can party III 1884 aud 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, but
especially have deserted the cause Of
reform in the civil service. We viii
not fail to keep our pledges because
!, they have broken theirs, or because
their candidate has broken bis. We
therefore repeat our declaration o.
; 1880, to wit: "lhe reform Of the
. civil service auspiclously begur
, under a Republican administration
should be completed by a further ex
{ tension Of the reform system, al
, ready established by law, to al
. grads Of eers,cn to which it is ap
. pijcahte, The spirit and purpose o
, the reform soouia be observed in a.
executive appointments, and all law
, at variance with the object Of exist
ing reforu l"g: sia,iun should De re
E peaed, to the end ,ha, the dangers It
. free institutions which Turk in tn,
6 power Of olirial patronage may b.
. wi>r.v AM effectively avoided"
The gratitude Of the nation 10 tn
- defenders Of the Uniop cannot b
| measured ny JAWS. ne icH. iS'".'o'
of Congress should conform i
pledges m4do by the loyal people
and be so enlarged and extended a
to provide against the possibility tina
= any man who hono,ably wore tn
Federal uniform shall become tn
inmate OF an almshouse, or depend
:, ent upon private charity i'll tn
presence OF Az OVERLOOKING treasury
1t would he public scandal to d
less for those whose vaiorous service
, preserved the government. We de
= nounce the hostile spiri, shown b.
: President Cleveland in his numerous
= vetoes of measures for pension RELIEF
and the action Of the Democrat
[ House Of Representatives in refusin;
S even the consideration of genera
pension legislation in support Of tn
principals herein enunciated.
; We invite the cooperation Of pa
triotic men OF all parties, and es
pecialy all workingmen. whose pros
perity is seriously threatened by tn