Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-31

THIS policy will give employment to
our labor, activity to our various In
dustries, 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 loaning the government
money without interest to ''pet-
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present administration has betray-
ed US by its ineffciency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and re-
strctions 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 arraign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and un-
patriotic treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pusillanimous 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.
8 islation of 1880 and the comfy of
s nations, and which Canadian fishing
vessels receive in the ports of the
United States.
. We condemn the policy Of the
5 present administration aud the Demo
, cratic majority in Congress toward
A our fisheries as unfriendly and con.
: spicuously unpatriotis, and as tending
r to destroy national industry and in
4 dispensable resource of defense
: against forei On enemy.
n The name OF "American" applies
r alike to all citizens of the Republic
!. and imposes on all alike the same
n obligation Of obedience to the laws
6 At the same time the citizenship i:
g and must be the panoply and safe
Il guard of him who wears it ane
J. protect him, whether high or low
e rich or poor, in all his civil rights
20 1t should and must afford him pro
.. lection at home and follow him ant
j. protect him abroad in whatever lane
S. he may be, on lawful errand.
,e Men who abandoned the Republi
Y. can party IN 1884 and continue t
If adhere to the Democratic party, hav'
,e deserted, not only the cause of homes
" government, of sound finance, of tn
o. freedom and purity of the ballot, bu
n especially have deserted the cause
re- reform in the civil service. We vii
ID not fail to keep our pledges becaus
,e they have broken theirs, or becaus
r. their candidate has broken his. w
X therefore repeat our declaration @
&c 1880, to wit: "The reform Of tn
~ civil service auspic'ousy begu
be- under Republican administratio
IS. should be completed by further eA
of tension of the reform system, a
he ready established by law, to a
CO grades Of service to which it is az
te plicable. The spirit and purpose {
to the reform should be observed in a
49, executive appointments, and all law
he at variance with the object of exis
ing reform legislation should be RI
~ pealed, to the end that the dangers ,
% free institutions which Turk in II
of power of official patronage may /
10 wisely and effectively avoided"
~ The gratitude of the nation 10 Il
ar defenders of the Union cannot
measured by laws. The legislatio
of Congress should conform
!, ne pledges made by the loyal poopl
-; and be so enlarged and extended
l." to provide against the possibility tn
~. any man who honorably wore tt
. Federal uniform shall become Il
~ inmate of an almshouse, or depen'
ne 10 ent upon private charity in tt
!" presence OF an overlooking treasur
re- 1t would be public scandal to {
W less for those whose valorous servic
~ preserved the government. We d
~, nounce the hostile spirit shown
~ President Cleveland in his numero
=" vetoes of measures for pension relic
and the action Of the Democrat
rat House of Representatives in refusir
'ss even the consideration Of gener
O" pension legislation in support of Il
on principals herein enumerated.
ne' We invite the cooperation of p
&c triotc men of all parties, and e
As pecially all workinCmen, whose pre-