, 1888-09-12

frauds upon the ballot. Our cOiOred peo-
pie do not ask special legislation in their
interest, but only to be made secure in the
common rights of American citizenship.
They will, however, naturally mistrust the
sincerity of those party leaders who APP
peal to their race for support only in those
localities where suffrage is free and the
election results doubtful and compass
their disfranchisement where their votes
would be controlling and their choice can
not be coerced. The nation not less than
the states is dependent for its prosperity
and security upon the intelligence and
morality of the people. This common
very easily suggested national aid
in the establishment and endowment of
schools and colleges in the new states.
There is, | believe, at present an exigency
that calls for still more liberal and direct
appropriation in aid of common school
EDUCATION IN THE STATES.
The territorial form of government is a
tenn porary expedient, not a permanent
civil condition. 1t is adapted to the ex-
igency that suggested it, but becomes in
adequate and even oppressive when APP
piled to fixed and populous communities.
Several territories are well able to bear
the burdens and discharge the duties of
free commonwealth in the American
union. To exclude them is to deny the
just rights of their people and nay well
excite their indignant protest. No ques-
ton of the political preference of the peo-
pie in the territory should close against
them the hospltable door which has
opened to two thirds of the existing
states. but admission should be resolutely
refused to any territory a majority of
whose people cherish institutions that are
.repugnant to our civilization or inconsist-
ent with a republican form ofgovernment.
The declaration OF the convention against
all combinations of capital
ORGANIZED N TRUSTS
or otherwise to control arbitrarily the con-
dition of trade among our citizens are in
harmony with the views entertained and
publicly expressed by me long before the
assembling of the convention. Ordinarily
shares the losses of idleness with
but under the operation of the
trust, in some of its forms, the wage
workers alone suffer the loss, while the
capital receives its dividend from the
trust fund. The producers who refuse to
join the combination are destroyed, and
competition as an element of prices IS
eliminated. 1t cannot be doubted that
the legislative authority should and will
find a method Of dealing fairly and effec-
lively with these and other abuses con-
nected with this subject. 1t can hardly
be necessary for me to say that | am
heartily in sympathy with the declaration
OF the convention upon
THE SUBJECT OF PENSIONS
TO our soldiers and sailors. What they
gave, and what | had some opportunity
to observe and in a small measure to ex-
perience, they gave ungrudgingly. 1t was
not a trade, but an offering The
measure was heaped up, running over.
What they achieved only distant genera
tons can adequately tell. Without
attempting to discuss particular propcsi-
tons, l may add that a measure in behalf
of the surviving veterans of the wal and
of families of their dead comrades should
be conceived and executed in a spirit of
justice and of the most grateful liberality,
and in competitor for civil appointments,
honorable military service should have
appropriate recognition.
THE LAW REGULATING
appointments to classified civil service re-
ceiyed my support in the senate in the
belief that it opened the way to much
needed reform. | still think SO and there
lOlG COlulhlly dDDIONG Iub ClCdI dlu lDTDl-
Bile expression of the convention upon
this subject. The law should have the
aid of a friendly Interpretation and be
appointments under it should be abso-
lutely free from partisan consideration and
influences. Some extensions of the CLASH
fed list are practicable and desirable, and
further legislation extending reform to
oEb,- b,o~alor &c tLa eorp,,o 10 yrhial -
is applicable would receive my approval.
In appointments to every grade and de-
partment fitness and not party service
should be essential, and the discriminat-
ing test of fidelity and efficiency the only
sure tenure of office. Only the interests
OF the public service should suggest re
movals from office know the practical
difficulties attending the application of
appointments and removals. 1t will, how
ever, be m sincere purpose, II elected, to
ADVANCE II REFORM.
! notice with pleasure that the conven-
ton did not omit to express its solicitude
for the promotion of virtue and temper
ance among our people. The Republican
party has always been friendly to every,
thing that tended to make the home life
of our people free. pure and prosperous,
and will in future be true to its history in
this respect.
Our relations with foreign powers
should be characterized by friendlincss
and respect. The right of our people
aud of our ships to hospitable treatment
should be insisted upon with dignity and
frmness. Our nation is too great both in
material strength and in mora power to
indulge in buster or to be suspected of
t-imorousness. Vacillation and inconsist-
ency are as incompatible with successful
diplomacy as they are with national dig
nifty. We should especially cultivate and
extend our diplomatic and commercial re-
lations with the Central and South Amer.
lean states Our fisheries should be tos-
tered aud protected. The hardships and
risks that are the necessary Incidents of
thn Ensinnsa shnnll mt Ln incrnnsnd hu