Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-06-29
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Of the use CT gold ana silver 2S mon
ev, ana condemns Tie policy of the
Democratic Administration in its eff
forts to demonetiZe silver.
We demaEd the reduction Of letter
postage to ! cent per ounce
In Republic like ours, where the
citizen is the sovereign asd the eff
cial the servant. where no power is
exercis, d kept that Ct the will of the
people, it is important that he sover-
elgn-the pecple-sbould possess
intelligence. The free school is the
promoter Of that intelli gence which Is
to preserve Us free Nation; there
fore, the State or Nation, or both
combined, should support free institu-
tions of learning sufficient to afford TO
every child grow ing up in the land
the opportunity of a good common
school education.
ADEQU ATE NATIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
We earnestly recommend that ac-
ton be taken by Congress in the en-
actmert Of such rs will best secure
the rehabilitation of our American
merchant marine, and we protest
against the passage by Congress of o
free ship bill as calculated to work in-
Justice to labor by lessening the wag-
es of those engaged in preparing ma
terials, as we'll as those directly en-
ployed in our ship yards.
We demand appropriations for the
early rebuilding of our navy: for the
construction OF coast fortification and
modern means of defense for the pro-
lection of our defenseless harbors aud
cities; for the payment of just pen
sions to our soldiers; for necessary
works of National Importance in the
improvement of harbors and the chan
nels of internal, coastwise and foreign
commerce.; for the encouragement OF
the shipping interests OF the Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific States, as well as for
the payment of the maturing public
debt.
This policy will give employment to
our labor, activity to our various Ia
drstries, 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 he far better for our
country than the Democratic policy of
loaning the Governments money
without interest TO 'p5t" banks.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
The conduct of foreign affairs by
the present Administration has been
distinguished by its inefficiency and
its cowardice. Having withdrawn
from the Senate all pending treaties
effected by Republican Administra-
ton for the removal Of foreign bur,
dens and restrictions upon our COM
merce and for it, extension into
better markets, it he's neither effected
nor proposed any Others in their
stead. Processing adherence to the
Monroe doctrine, it has seen with
idle complaisancy the extension OF
foreign influence in Central America
and Of foreign trade every where
among our neighbors. 1t has refused
to charter, sanction or encourage any
American organization for construct
ing the Nicarauga canal, a 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 our Pacific
territory, with South America and
with the islands and further coasts OF
the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic
Administrator for its weak and un-
PATRIOTIC treatment of the fisheries
question, and its pqsi!laEimoqs sur
render Of tho essential privileges to
which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the treaty of
1918, the reciprocal maritime leglsla-
ton of 1880, and the comfy of Ma
tions, and which Canadian fishing
vessels receive in the ports OF the
United States. We condemn the pol
icy of the present A Administration and
the Democratic maj jority in Congress
towards our fisheries as unfrlendly
and con lspicuously unpatriotic, and as
tendiagito dt4troT Q valuable National
industry aud an Indispensable re-
source of deFence against o foreiga
enemy.
The name Of American applies a.
like 10 all citizens of the Republic
and imposes upon all alike the same
obligation Of obedience to the laws
Al the same time that citizenship IS,
and must be, the panoply and safe
guard Of him who wears it, and pro-
tects him, whether high or low, ricf
or poor, in ali bis civil rights. It
should and must afford him protection
at home, and follow and protect him
abroad, in whatever land he may be
on lawful errand.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The mon who abandoned the Re-
publican party in 1884, ana continue
| to adhere to the Democratic party
have deserted NOS CG.Y the cause o
honest government, 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-
cansa they have BROKEN theirs, or be-
cause their candidate has broken his
We, therefore, repeat our declaration
Of 1891, to wit: "The reform of the
Republican Administration, should
be completed by ts- further extension
OF the reform ystem, already by law
to all the grades Of the service tc
which it is applicable. The spirit
and purpose Of the reform should bt
observed in all Executive appoint
ments, all laws at yariance with the
object Of existing reform Legislation
should be repealed, to the end that
the dangers TO free institutions which
lurk il the power Of Official patronage
may DC wisely aud effectively aVoiG
ed"
The gratitude of the Nation to the
defenders Of the Union cannot b'
measured by laws The Legislation
of Congress should conform to The
pledges made by loyal people, anC
| be 80 enlarged and extended as to pro
vide against the possibility that any
| man who bonorabIy wore the Fedora