Morris tribune., 1888-06-27

bills is q wilful violation of the sacred
principle of local self-government and
merits the condemnation 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
necessary delay. The Republican party
pledges itself to do all in its power to
facilitate the admission of the territories
of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and
Arizona to the enjoyment of self-goyern-
ment as states, such of them as are now
qualified as soon as possible, and the
others as soon rs they may become 90.
The political power OF the Mormon
church In the territories, az exercised In
the past, Ia o menace to free institutions
too dangerous longer to be suffered.
Therefore we pledge the Republican
party to appropriate legislation asserting
the sovereignty Of the nation in all ter
ritories where the same is questioned,
and in furthsrance Of that end to place
upon the statute books legislation strin-
gent enough to divorce the political from
the ecclesiastical power and thus
Stamp Out the Attendant Wiokedness Of
Polygamy.
The Republican party 10 in favor Of
the use of both gold and silver as money
and condemns the policy of the Demo
cratic administration In Its efforts to
demontize silver.
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to cent per ounce.
In republic like ours, where the citi-
zen is the sovereign, and the official the
servant, where no power is exercised ex-
cept by the viii of the people, it Is inn
portant that the sovereign-the people
should possess intelligence. The free
school Is the prompter Of that intelh-
gence which Is to preserve us free ma
ton; therefore the state or nation, or
both combined, should support the free
institutions of learning, sufficient to
an opportunity of q
Good Common school Education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by congress in the enact
ment Of such legislation as will secure
the rehabilitation of our American mer-
chant marine, and protest against the
passing by congress Of free ship bill,
as calculated to work injustice to labor
by lessening the wages Of those engaged
in preparing materials as well as those
directly employed In our ship yards We
demand appropriations for the early re-
building of our navy, for the construo-
ton of coast fertilization and modern
ordnance and other improved modern
means of defense for the protection Of
our defenseless harbors and cities; for
the payment Of just pensions to our sol
diers; for the necessary work OF national
Importance in the improvement of har-
bors and the channel of internal, coast
wise and foreign commerce; for the en-
couragement Of the shipping interests Of
the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific states, az
well as
The Payment Of the Maturing Public
Debt.
This policy will give employment to our
labor; activity to our various industries;
increase the security of our country; pro-
mote 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 Demo
cratic policy of loaning the governments
money without interest to ''pet banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by the
present administration has been distin-
guished by its inefficiency and it's coward
ice. Having withdrawn from the senate
all pending treaties effected by Republi-
can administration for the removal Of
foreign burdens and restrictions upon our
commerce and for extension into better
markets, it has neither effected nor pro-
posed any other in their stead. Profess
ing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it
has seen with idle complacency the ex-
tension of -s--
Foreign Influence in Central America
and Of foreign trade everywhere among
our neighbors. It has refuse to charter,
sanction or encourage any American or
ganization for constructing the Nicaragua
canal, q work Of vital importance to the
maintenance Of the Monroe doctrine, and
of our national influence IN Central ana
South America, and necessary for the
development Of trade with our Pacific
territory, with South America and with
the islands and further coasts OF the Pa
cific ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic ad-
ministration for its weak and unpatriotdc
treatment of the fisheries question, and
it's pusillanimous surrender of the essen
tial privileges to which our fishing vessels
are entitled in Canadian ports under the
treaty of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation of 1880 and the comfy OF
nations, and which Canadian fishing yes
sells receive in the ports Of the United
States. We condemn the policy Of the
present administration and the Demo-
cratic majority in congress towards our
fisheries as unfriendly and conspicuously
unpatriotic, and as tending to
Destroy q Valuable National Industry,
and an indispensable resource of defense
against foreign enemy.
The name Of American applies to all
citizens of the republic aud imposes upon
all alike the same obligation of obedience
to the laws. At the same time that citi
zenship is, and must be, the panoply and
safeguard of him who wears it, and pro-
tect him whether high or low, rich or
poor, in all his civil rights. It should
and must afford him protection at home,
and follow and protect him abroad in
whatever land he may be, in a lawful
trade.
The men who abandoned the Repubn-
can party In 1884 and continue to adhere
to the Democratic party have deserted
not only the cause Of honest govern.
ment, Of sound finance, OF freedom and
purity of the ballot, 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 be-
cause their candidate has broken his. We
therefore repeat our declaration Of 1854,
to-wit: 'sThe reform of the civil service
auspiciously begun under Republican adj
ministration, should be completed by the
further extension of the reform system
already established by law, to all the
grades of the service to which 1t IL appli.
cable. The spirit and purpose of tine re-
form should be observed In all executive
appointments, and all laws at variance
with the object Of existing reform legis-
latien should be repealed, to the end that
the dangers to free institutions, which
Turk. In the power of official patronage
may be wisely and effectively avoided.
The gratitude of the nation to the de-
tenders of the union cannot be measured
by laws. The legislation of congress
should conform to the pledges made by a
loyal people, and be so enlarged and ex-
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