Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-03

ton for Statehood, all officers .bereo
should be selected from the bona 6d
residents and citizens OF the Territor-
wherein they are to serve. South Dakoti
should Of right be Immediately admitted
as a State in the Union, under the con
: siituuon framed and adopted by IN,
people, and we heartily indoise the actor
Of the Republican Senate in twic,
passing bills for her admission. Tn,
refusal Of the Democratic House o
Representatives, for partisan purposes, t
favorably consider these bills, S a willu
violation Of the sacred American principle
Of local self.government, and merits The
condemnation Of all just men. The
pending bills in the Senate for acts Ia
enable the people of Washington, North
Dakota and Montana Territories to form
constitutions should be passed without
unnecessary delay. The republican party
pledges itself to DO all in its power TO ia.
cilitate the admission of the territories OF
New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Ari.
zona to the enjoyment of self.government
as states, such Of them as are now quail.
| fed, as soon as possible, and the others as
soon as they may become so.
The political power Of the Mormon
church in the territories, as experienced in
| the past, is menace to free institutions
too dangerous to be long suffered. There.
fore we pledge the republican party to ap.
propuate legislation asserting the sover.
| eighty of the nation in all territories
where the same Is questioned, and in
turtherance Of that end to place upon the
statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the ecclesias-
teal 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 its efforts to demonetize
silver.
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to / cent per ounce.
In a republic like ours, where the
citizen IS the sovereign and the official the
servant, where no power is exercised
except by the will of the people, it Is
important that the sovereign-the people
should possess intelligence. The free
school is the promoter of that intelligence
which is to preserve us a free nation;
therefore, the state or nation, or both
combined, should support free institutions
of learning, sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the oppor.
tunlty of a good common school edu.
cation.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by Congress in the en-.
actment of such legislation as will best
secure the rehabilitation of our American
merchant marine, and we protest against
the passage by Congress of a free ship |
bill, as calculated to work injustice to
labor by lesseuing the wages of those !
engaged in preparing materials, as well !
as those directly employed in our ship |
yards. We demand appropriations for
the early .ebuilding of our navy; for the |
construction of coast Notifications and |
modern ordnance, and other approved |
modern means of defense for the protec. |
tion of our defenseless harbors and |
cities; tor the payment Of Just pensions |
to our soldiers; for necessary works of |
National importance in the improvement |
of harbors and the channels of internal |
coastwise, and foreign commerce; for the |
encouragement Of the shipping interests |
of the Atlantic, Gulf aud Pacihc States, as |
well 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 the security of |
our country promote trade, open new |
and direct markets for our produce, and |
cheaper the cost OF transportation. 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 been distin.
guished by its Inettciency and ITS coward.
ice, Having Withdrawn from the Senate
all peuding treaties effected by republican
for the removal of foreign
burdens and restrictions upon our com.
meroo and for its extension into better
markets, il 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 extern
sion OF foreign influence IN Central
America, and Of foreign trade everywhere
among our neighbors. 1t has refused to
charter, sanction or encourage any Amer.
lean organization for constructing the
Nicaragua canal, a work OF vital import.
doctrine, and OF our national influence in
Central and South America, and neces.
,ary for the development OF trade with
our Pacific territory, with South America
and with the islands and further coasts Of
the Pacific Ocean.
We arraigu the present democratic ad.
for its weak and unpatriouc
treatment of the fisheries question, and
rs puSlllanImouS surrender OF the essen.
nal privileges TO which our fishing vessels
'Te enutlsd in Canadian ports under the
treaty OF 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation Of 1880, and the comfy Of
nations, aud which Canadian fishing YES.
'els receive in the ports Of the Unued
States, We condemn the policy OF the
lIesent administration and the democratic
majority in Congress toward our fisheries
Is uniriendly and oonspicuously unpatri-
'Iie, and as tending TO destroy valuable
iAuonAl industry, aud al indispensable
'esouTos OF defense against a foreign
,nemy,
The name Of America applies alike to
III eitiiens OF the republic, and imposes
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