, 1889-03-05

LEVI +. moHIoN.
per motives, and all applicants will be
treated with consideration, but | will
need, and heads of departments will need,
time for inquiry and elaboration. Per
sistent importantly will not therefore be
the best support of application for office.
The heads of departments, bureaus
and all other public officers having any
duty connected Herewith will enforce the
civil service law fully and without evasion
and beyond this obvious duty | hope to
do something more to advance the re-
form of the civil service. The ideal, or
even nv own ideal, | shall probably not
obtain. Retrospect will be a safer basis
OF Judgment than promises. We shall
not, however, | am sure, be able to put
our civil service upon a nonpartisan basis
until We have secured an incumbency that
fair minded men of the opposition will an
prove. AS the number of such in civil
list is increased removals from Office will
diminish.
WHILE THE TREASURY SURPLUS
is not the greatest evil it is a serious evil.
Our revenue should be ample TO meet the
most ordinary and annual demands upon
our treasury with sufficient margin for
those extraordinary, but scarcely less i'm
perative, demands which arise now and
then. Expenditure should always be
made with economy and only upon public
necessity.
DUR PENSION LAWS
should give more adequate and discrim-
mating relief to Union soldiers and SAIL
ors, and their widows and orphans. Such
occasions as this should remind us that
we owe everything to their valor and sac
riice.
IT is A SUBJECT
Of c~ongratulation that there is a near
prospect of admission into the Union of
the DakOtas, Montana and Washington.
This act of justice has been unreasonably
delayed in the case OF some of them. The
people who settled these territories ale
intelligent, e~nterprising. patriotic and the
accession OF these new states will add
strength to the nation. Ii is due to the
settlers in the territories who have availed
themselves of the invitations of our land
laws to make homes upon our public do
main, that their titles should be speedily
adjusted and their honest entries con-
firmed by patent.
IT IS VERY GRATIFYING
U OD5GING luG EGICTll llIGTGSL NOW DGlDR
manifested in the reform OF our election
laws. The national congress has not as
yet taken control of the elections in the
case over which the constitution gives it
Jurisdiction, but it has accepted and
adopted the election laws of several states,
provided penalties for their violation and
the method of supervision and only the
inefhciency of the state laws or the unfair
or partisan administration OF them could
suggest a departure from this policy.
How shall those who practice election
frauds recover that respect tor the a
tlty of the ballot which is the first condi.
ton and obligation of good citizenship?
The man who has come to regard the
ballot box as a juggler's hat has renowned
his allegiance. Let us cxalt patriotism
and moderate our party contentious. We
should hold our differing opinions with
mutual respect and having submitted to
the arbitrament of the ballot should ac-
cept an adverse judgment with the same
respect we would demand of u oppo-
nents if the decision had been in our
favor. No other people have a govern
ment more worthy
RESPECT M LOVE.
We must not forget that we take these
gifts upon condition that Justice and
mercy shall hold the reins OF power and
the upward avenues of hope be free to all
people. | do not mistrust the future.
Dangers have been in frequent ambush
along orr path but we have uncovered and
vanquished them. Passion has some of
our communities but only to give us a
new demonstration that the great body of
our people are stable, patriotic, law in
spring. No political party can long pur-
sue advantageously at the expense of pub
lie honor and by rude and indecent meth
DDS without protest and fatal disaffection
in its own body.
PEACEFUL AGENCIES OF COMMERCE
are more fully revealing the necessary
unity of all our communities and the in
c~reasing intercourse of our people pro.
noting mutual respect We shall find
unalloycd pleasure in the revelation which
our next census will make of the swift de
velopment of the great resources of some
of our states. Zach state will bring a
generous contribution to the great aggre-
gate of the nation increase, and when
the harvests from the fields, 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 highest honor the state that
has most promoted education, virtue. jus.
tibe and patriotism among its people.