Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

merce, and for its extension into better
markets, 1t has neither effected nor pro-
posed any others in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it
has seen with idle complacency the ex-
tension 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
constructing the Nicaragua canal, a work
of vital Importance to the maintenance of
the Monroe doctrine and to our national
influence in Central and South America,
and necessary for the development of
trade with our Pacific territory, with
South America and with the islands on
the further coasts of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic ad-
ministration for its weak and unpatriotic
treatment of the fisheries question and
its pusilanimous surrender of the essen
tial privileges to which our fishing yes
sells are entitled in Canadian ports under
the treaty of 1918, the reciprocal mari
time legislation 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 and the Democratic party
in Congress toward our fisheries as I'M
friendly and conspicuously unpatriotic,
and as tending to destroy valuable ma
tional industry and an indispensable re-
source of defence against a foreign
enemy.
The name of American applies alike to
all citizens of the Republic, and imposes
upon all alike the same obligation of ODE
dience to the laws; at the same time that
citizenship is and must be the panoply
and safeguard of him who wears it and
must protect him, whether ligh or low,
rich or poor, in all his civil rights.
1t should and must afford him protec-
ton at home and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be on a
lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republic
can party in 1884 and continue to adhere
to the Democratic party deserted not only
the cause of honest government, of sound
finance, of freedom or purity of the bal
lot, but especially have deserted the cause
of reform in the civil service.
We will not fail to keep our pledges be-
cause they have broken theirs, or because
their candidate has broken his. "a
The gratitude of the nation to the de-
tenders of the Union cannot be measured
by laws. The legislation of Congress
should respond to the pledge made by a
loyal people and be so enlarged and ex-
tended as to provide against the POSSIBLE
ty that any man who honorably wore
the federal uniform shall become an in.
mate of almshouse or dependent upon
private charity.
In the presence of an Overlooking
treasury it would be public scandal to
do less for those whose valorous service
preserved the government.
We denounce the hostile spirit shown
by President Cleveland in his numerous
vetoes of bills for pension relief and the
action of the Democratic House of Rep.
resentatives in refusing even consider
alton of general legislation.
In support of the principles herewith
enunciated we invite the cooperation OF
patriotic men of all parties and especially
of all workingmen whose prosperity is
seriously threatened by the free trade
policy of the present administration.