Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-11

added them to our ordinary expendi-
lures to so adjust our revenue laws
that no considerable annual surplus
will remain. 1t is quite possible, |
am sure, to effect the necessary re-
duction in our revenues without break
ing down our protective tariff or Sc
riously injuring any domestic indus
try.
The construction of a sufficient
number of modern war ships and of
their necessary armament should pro-
gress as rapidly as is consistent with
care and perfection in plans and
workmanship. We should encourage
the establishment of American steam
ship lines. The exchanges of COM
merce demand stated, reliable and
rapid means of communication, and
until these are provided the develop
mentof our trade with the states ly-
ing south of us is impossible. Our
pension law should give more ade-
quate and discriminating relief to the
Union soldiers and sailors and to
their widows and orphans. Such oc-
casions as this should remind us that
we owe everything to their valor and
sacrifice.
1t is a subject of congratulation
that there is a near prospect of the
admission into the Union of the Da
kotas and Montana and Washington
Territories. This act of justice has
been unreasonably delayed in the
cases of some of them.
1t is very gratifying to observe the
general interest now being manifest
ed in the reform of our election laws.
Those who have been for years call
ing attention to the pressing necessi-
ty of throwing about the ballot and
about the elector further safeguards,
in order that our elections might not
only be free and pure, but might
clearly appear to so well welcome the
accession of any who did not so soon
discover the need of reform. The
people of all the congressional dis
tricts have an equal interest that the
election in each shall truly express
the views and wishes of majority of
the qualified electors residing within
it. The results of such elections are
not local, and the insistence of elec-
tors residing in other districts that
they shall be pure and do not SAVIOR
at all of impertinence. If in any of
these states the public security is
thonght to be threatened by ignorance
among the electors, the obvious rem
edy is education. The sympathy and
help of our people will not be with
held from any community struggling
with special embarrassments or diff
culties connected with the suffrage if
the remedies proposed proceed upon
lawful lines and are promoted by just
and honorable methods. How shall
those who practice election frauds
recover that respect for the sanctity
of the ballot, which is the first condi-
ton and obligation of good citizen
ship? The man who has come to re-
gard the ballot-box as juggler's hat
has renounced his allegiance.
Let us exalt patriotism and moder
ate our party contentious. Let those
who would die for the flag on the
field of battle give better proof of
their potriotism and higher glory to
their country by promoting fraternity
and justice. A party success that is
achieved by unfair methods or by
practices that partake of revolution
is hurtful and evanescent, even from
a party standpoint. We should hold
our differing opinions in mutual re-
spect, and, having submitted them
to the arbitrament of, the ballot, should
accept an adverse judgment with the
same respect that we would have de-
manded of our opponents if the de-
cision had been in our favor.
do not mistrust the future. Dan
gers have been in frequent ambush
along our path, but we have uncover
ed and vanquished them all. Pas
sion has swept some of our communi-
ties, but only to give us new dem
onstration that the great body of our
people are 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
disaffeotion in it's own body. The
peaceful agencies of commerce are
more fully revealing the necessary
unity of all our communitiee and the
increasing intercourse of our people
is promoting mutual respect, We
shall find alloyed pleasure in the rev.
elation 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 nations increase. And when
the harvest from the fields, the cattle
from the hills and the ores of the
earth shall have been weighed, count
ed and valued, we will turn from
them all to crown with the highest
honor the state that has most pro-
noted education, virtue, justice and
patriotism among the people.
At the conclusion of the speech
Chief Justice Melville W.Fuller step
ped forward, clad in short dark silk
gown, and administered the oath to
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