Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-02

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payment Of the maturing public debt.
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 efficiency and cowardice;
having Withdrawn from the Senate
all pending treaties effected by the
Republican administration for re-
moval of foreign burdens and re-
strictions 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
trlne, it has seen with idle CON-
placency the extension of foreign
influence i'll 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 rns'lanimous 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
islation of 1880 and the comfy of
nations, and which Canadian fishing
vessels receive in the ports of the
United States.
We condemn the policy of the
present administration AID the Demo
) cratic majority in Congress toware
our fisheries as uufrendly and con
) spicuously unPatr;o;is, aud as tending
to destroy national Industry and in
dispe nsab!e resource of detens,
against foreign enemy.
The name OF "American" apple.
, alike to all citizens of the Republic
: and imposes on all alike the same
> obligation of obedience to the laws
r At the same time the citizenship i.
, and must be the panoply and safe
, guard of kim who wears it anc
| protect him, whether high or low
: rich orpoor, in all his civil rights
, 1t should and must afford him pro
, lection at home and follow him auC
protect him abroad in whatever lane
he may be, on lawful erraod.
: Men who aband ned the Republi
, can party IN 1884 aud continue t.
. adhere to the Democratic party, have
t deserted, not only the cause of hones
Q government, Of sound finance, of tt.
y freedom and purity of the ballot, Blu
: especially have deserted the cause o
reform in the civil service. We will
E not fail to keep our pledges because
1 they have broken theirs, or because
e their candidate has broken his. W.
: therefore repeat our declaration o
= 1880, to wit: "The reform of tn
e civil service auspic,ously b-gu'
: under Republican administration
E should be completed by further ex
: tension Of the reform system, al
+ ready established by law, to al
e grades of service to Which it is sp
e plicab!e. The spirit and purpose o
e the reform should be observed in a.
o executive appointments, and all law
}, at variance with the object of exis.
e ing reform legislation should be re
pealed, to the end that the dangers t
# free institutions which Turk in tn
s power Of official patronage may b
f wisely and effectively avoided"
Is The gratitude of the nation to tn
defenders of the Union cannot b
r measured by laws. The legislatio
of Congress should conform
G pledges made by the loyal peop!
and be so enlarged and extended ;
is to provide against the possibility tn,
e any man who honorahly wore tt
=. Federal uniform shall become tn
!. inmate Of an almshouse, or depend
q ent upon private charity 10 Il
is presence OF an overHowing treasur
= 1t would he a public scandal to .
less for those whose valorous servic,
pyes+ryed the Government. We d.