Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-06-25

cal self government, and merits the con-
demnation of all just men. The pending
bills in the Senate for acts to enable the
people of Washington, North Dakota and
Montana Territories to form constitutions
and establish state governments should
be passed without unnecessary delay.
The Republican party pledges itself to
do all in its power to facilitate the ad-
mission of the Territories of New Mexi-
co, Wyoming, Idaho and Arizona to the
endowment of selfgoverment as states,
such of them as are now qualified as
soon as possible and the others as soon
as they become so.
The political power of the Mormon
church in the territories, as exercis-
ed in the past, is menace to free insti-
buttons, a danger no longer to be suffered.
Therefore, we pledge the republican party
to appropriate legislation, asserting the
sovereignty of the nation in all terrific
ries where the same is questioned, and, in
furtherance of that end, to place upon the
statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the ecclesi-
astical power, and thus stamp out the
attendant wickedness of polygamy.
The republican party is in favor of the
use of both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy of the democratic
administration in it's efforts to demonetlze
silver.
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to Que cent per ounce.
In republic like ours, where the citizen
is the sovereign and the official the SER
want, where no power is exercised except
by the will of the people, it is important
that the sovereign, the people should pos
sess intelligence. The free school IS the
promoter of that intelligence which is to
preserve us free nation, therefore the
state or nation, or both combined. should
support free institutions of learning suf-
ticient to afford to every child growing
up in the land the opportunity of good
common school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by congress in the enact
ment of such legislation as will best Sc
cure the rehabilitation of our American
merchant marine, and we protest against
the passage by congress of free ship
bill, as calculated to work injustice to la
Dor by lessening the wages of those en-
gagged in preparing materials as well as
those directly employed in our ship yards
We demand appropriations for the ear
ly rebuilding of our navy; for the con-
| struction of coast fortiticationS and mod
ern ordnance, and other approved mod
ern means of defence for the protection
of our defenceless harbors and cities {;
for the payment of just pensions to our
soldiers; for necessary works of nation
al Importance in the Improvement of har-
bors and the channels of internal, coast
wise and foreign commerce; for the en-
enlargement of the shipping interests of
the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific states, as
we'll as for the payment of the maturing
public debt. This policy will give en-
ployment to our labor, activity to our va
rious industries, increase security to our
country, promote trade, open new and di-
rect markets for our produce, and cheap
en- the cost of transportation. We affirm
this to be far better for our country than
the democratic policy of loaning the gov
ernment's money without interest to ''pet
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by the
present administration has been distin
guished by its inefficiency and its coward
ice Having withdrawn from the senate
all pending treaties effected by republic
an administrations for the removal OF
| foreign burdens and restrictions upon oul
; commerce and for its extension into better
markets, it has neither effected nor pro
, posed any others in their stead. Profess
| inc adherence to the Monroe doctrine, i
has seen with idle complacency the eX
5 tension of foreign trade everywher
among our neighbors. 1t has refused t.
e charter, sanction or encourage any Amer
t lean organization for constructing tn
t Nicaragua canal, work of almost vita
: importance to the maintenance of tn
h Monroe doctrine and of our national III
fiuence in Central and South America, an
: necessary for the development of trad
# with our Pacific territory, with Sout
: America and with the islands and turtle
e coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
e We arraign the present democratic ae
y ministration for its weak and unpatriotl
: treatment of the fisheries question, an
it's pusillanimous surrender of the esseI
j., tial privileges to which our fishing yes
l. sells are entitled in Canadian ports unde
O the treaty of 1918, the reciprocal mar
d time legislation of 1880 and the comfy {
e nations, and which Canadian fishing YES
h sells receive in the ports OF the Unite
e States. We condemn the policy of tn
present administration and the democrati
Il majority in congress toward our tishel
N les as unfriendly and conspicuously III
4 patriotic, and as tending to destroy
II valuable national industry and indispen:
Is able resource of defence against a forelg
e. enemy The name of American apple
n alike to all citizens of the republic an
% impose upon all alike the same obligatio
,s of obedience to the laws. At the san
Or time that citizenship is and must be I'll
IN panoplv and safeguard of him who veal
w it and protect him, whether high or low
IS rich or poor, in all his civil rights
10 should and must afford him protection
home and follow and protect him abroa
in whatever land he may be on lawf
&C. GRAND.
os The men who abandoned the republics
o. | party in 1884, and continue to adhere
ST the democratic party, have deserted NJ
o. only the cause of honest government,
ht sound finance, of freedom, of purity
CHI the ballot, but especially have desertt
"a the cause of reform in the civil servic
To We will not fail to keep our pledges b
lal cause they have broken theirs, or becau
IL their candidate has broken his. v
Id therefore repeat our declaration of ISIS
M to wit: 1.-The reform of the civil servic
re auspiciously begun under the Republic
he Administration should be completed
10 the further extension of the reform sy
IN tenn already established by law to all t
no grades of the service to which it is a
70 plicable The spirit and purpose of t
700 | reform should be observed in all exec
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