The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1890, 1888-06-30

ton with failure to execute the laws Sc
curing to settlers their title to homesteads |
and with using appropriations made for
that purpose to harrass innocent settlers |
with spies and prosecutions under the |
false pretense of exposing frauds and
vindicating the law. The government by
congress Of the territories is based upon
necessity only, to the end that they may
become states in the union; therefore,
whenever the conditions of population,
material resources, public intelligence
and morality are such as to ensure a
stable local government therein, the peo.
pie of such territories should be permit
ted, as Il right inherent in them, to form
for themselves constitutions and state
governments and be
ADMITTED INTO THE UNION.
Pending the preparation for statehood,
all officers thereof should be selected from
bona tide residents and citizens of the
territory wherein they are to serve. South
Dakota should of right he Immediately
admitted as u state Of the union under the
constitution framed and adopted by her
people, and we heartily endorse the ac-
ton Of the republican senate in twice
passing bills for her admission. The re-
fusaI of the democratic house OF repre-
sentaives, for partisan purposes to con
slider these bills, is a wilful violation of
the sacred American principles of local
self government, and merits the conden,-
nation of all just men. The pending bills
in the senate for the 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 it's power to facilitate the admission
of the territories Of New Mexico, Wyom-
ing, Idaho and Arizona, to the enjoyment
of self government as states, such OF them
as are now qualified, as soon as possible,
and the others as soon as they may be-
come so.
The political power of
THE MORMON CHURCH
in the territories, as exercised in the past,
is menace to free institutions and dan
gerous to be long suffered. Therefore,
we have pledged the republican party to
appropriate legislation, asserting to the
sovereignty of the nation in all the terri
tories 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
ecclesiastical power, and thus stamp out
the uttendent wickedness of polygamy
The republican party is i'll favor of the
use of both
GOLD AND SILVER AS MONEY,
and condemns the policy of the demo-
cratic administration in its effort to de
monetze silver. We demand reduction
of letter postage to one cent. In repub-
lie like ours, where the citizen is sover-
eign and the official the servant; where no
power is exercised except by the will OF
the people, it is important that the sover-
eign and the people should possess intel
ligence. The free school is the promoter
of that intelligence, which is to preserve
this 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 opportunity OF good, common
school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action he taken by congress in the enact
| ment of such legislation as will best Sc
cure re-establishment of our American
merchant marine, and protest against the
passage by congress OF free ship bill as
calculated to work injustice to labor by
lessening wages of those engaged in pre-
parlng materials as we'll as those directly
working in our ship yards. We demand
appropriations for the early rebuilding of
our navy. for the construction of coast
fOrtitications and modern ordnance and
other improved modern means Of defense
for the protection Of our defcnccless har-
bors and cities for the payment of just
pensions to our soldiers; for necessary
works of natural importance;an improve
ment of harbors and channels of internal
coastwise and foreign commerce; for the
encouragement 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 the security OF
our country, promote trade, open new and
direct markets for our produce, and
| C1IEApEN COST OF TRANSPORTATION.
We affirm this to be far better for oul
country than the democratic policy OF
loaning the governments money without
interest to "pet banks The conduct OF
our foreign affairs by the present admin
istration las been tritling with US by lts
inetticiency and cowardlce, having with
drawn from the senate all pending treaties
effected 10y the republican administration
for the removal of foreign burdens, the
restrictions upon our commerce and fo1
its extension into better markets. 1t ha:
neither effected nor proposed any other:
in their stead. Processing adherence tt
the Monroe doctrine it has seen with idle
complacency the extension of foreign in
t1uence in Central America, and OF foreign
trade everywhere among our neighbors
1t has refused to charter, sanction or en-
courage any American organization fo
the construction of the Nicaragua canal
a work of vital importance to the main
tenance of the Monroe doctrine, and o
our national influence in Central ant
South America, and with the islands ant
further coast Of the Pacific ocean. W.
arraiyn the present democratic admins
tration for
IT'S WEAK AND UNrATRIOTIC
treatment of the fisheries question, ant
its pusllanimous surrender of the essen
tial privileges to which our fishing vessel
are entitled in Canadian ports under th'
treaty of 1918, the reciprocal maritime leg
islation of 1880, and the comfy OF nation
and the treatment which Canadian fishing
, vessels receive in the ports of the United
, States. We condemn the policy of tn
, present administration, and the demo
cratic majority in congress towards ou
fisheries, as unfriendly and conspicuous,
unpatriotic, and as tending to destroy
, national industry and indispensable re