Morris tribune., 1889-03-06

their convenience, what can they expect when
the lesson that convenience or supposed class
interest is q sufficient cause for lawlessness Is
learned by the ignorant classes? community
where law is the rule Of conduct and where courts,
not mobs execute its penalties, is the only at
tractve field for business investments and honest
labor.
OUR NATURALIZATION LAWS
should be SO amended as to make the inquiry into
the character and good disposition of persons ap-
plying for citizenship more careful and search-
ing. We should not cease to be hoSpitable TO
immigration but we should cease to be careless
as to the character Of it. There are men or all
races, even to the best, whose coming is necessa'
rily burden upon our public revenues or .
threat to social order. These should be Identified
and excluded.
We have happily maintained policy OF avoid
ingall
INTERFERENCE WITH EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
We have been only interested spectators of their
contentious in diplomacy and in war, ready to use
our friendly offices to promote peace, but never
obtruding our advice and never attempting 10
coin the distreSSeS of other powers into CONNER
cal advantage to ourselves. Our citizens, doml-
ced for purposes of trade in all countries ana IN
many of the islands of the sea, demand and will
have our adequate care in their personal and
commercial rights. We shall neither fail to re-
spect the flag of any friendly nation or the just
rights of its citizens, nor to exact the like treat
ment for our own.
The duty devolved by law upon the president to
nominate and by and with the advice and consent
of the senate to
APPOINT ALL PUBLIC OFFICERS
whose appointment is not otherwise provided for
in the constitution by act of congress, has be-
come very burdensome, and its wise and efficient
discharge full of difficulty. l have a right, l
think, that those who volunteer or are invited to
give advice as to appointments shall exercise
consideration and fidelity. A high sense of duty
and ambition to improve the service should
characterize all public officers. Honorable party
service will certainly not be esteemed by me a
disqualification for public Office, but it will in no
case be allowed to serve as a shield of official
negligence, incompetency or delinquency. 1t is
entirely credtable to seek public office by proper
methods.
1t will be the duty of congress wisely to forecast
and estimate our ordinary expenditures and to so
ADJUST OUR REVENUE LAWS
that no considerable amount of surplus will re-
main We will fortunately be able to apply to the
public debt any small and unforeseen excess of
revenue. This is better than to reduce our in
come below our necessary expenditures with the
resulting choice of another change of our revenue
laws or an increase of the public debt.
The construction of a sufficient number of
MODERN WAR SHIPS
as rapidly as is consistent with care and perfec-
ton in plans and workmanship. We should en-
courage the establishment of American steam
ship lines
OUR PENSION LAWS
should give more adcquata and discriminating re-
lief to the Union soldiers and sailors and to their
widows and orphans. Such occasions as this
should remind us that We owe everything to their
valor and sacrifice
1t is subject of con9ratu,ation that there is a
near prospect of the
ADMISSION INTO THE UNION
of the Dallotas and Montana and Washington
territories. This act Of justice has been unrea-
sonably delayed in the case of some of them. The
people who have settled these territories are in
taligent, enterprising and patriotic and the ac-
cesson of these new states viii add strength to
the nation.
THE FREEDOM OF TIE BALLOT
is a condition of our national life, and no power
vested in congress or in the executive to secure
or perpetuate it should remain unused upon occa-
sion. The people of all the congressional dis
tricts have equal interest that the election in
each shall truly express the views and wishes of
majority of the qualified electors residing with
in it. The results of such elections not local
and the insistence of electors residing in other
districts that they shall be pure and free not
SAVIOR at all of impertinence.
1 do not mistrust the future. Dangers have
been in frequent ambush along our path, but we
have uncovered and vanquished them all. Pas
sion has swept some of our communities, but
only to give us a new demonstration that the
great body of our people stable, patriotic and
law abiding. No political party can long pursue
advantage at the expense of public honor or by
rude and indecent methods without protest and
fatal disaffection in its own body. The peaceful
agencies of commerce are more fully revealing
the necessary unity Of all our communities, and
the increasing intercourse OF our people is pro-
noting mutual respect. We shall find unalloyed
pleasure in the revelation, which our next
census will make, of the swift development
of the great resources of some of the states
Each state will bring its generous contribution to
the great aggregate of the nation increase and
when the harvestS from the field the cattle from
the hills and the ores of the earth shall have been
weighed, counted and valued, we will turn from
them all to crown with the highest honor the
state that has promoted education, virtue, JUS
tice and patriotism among its people.
The crowd Immediately about the
platform remained with heads uncovered
during the delivery Of the entire address
and frequently interrupted the president
with
vOCIFEROUS APPLAUSE
At the conclusion of the address, they
cheered again and again. the president
bowed his Acknowledgements. He was
then escorted through the cheering
crowd on the platform into the capitol.
He walked to the basement door where
he had entered the building and where
his carriage was waiting for him. He
and the ex-president, with two members
of the committee of arrangements, took
seats in the carriage and were driven
out to join the procession.
BUSINESS CARDS.