The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-03-07

Eiany 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
naent for our own.
The duty devolved by law upon the president to
dominate 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 or by act of congress-, has be-
come very burdensome, and its wise and efficient
discharge full of difficulty. I have a right, I
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 CT delinquency. It is
entirely creditable 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
MOpERN WAR SHIPS
and of their necessary ornaments should progress
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 adequate and discriminating re-
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widows and orphans. Such occasions as this
sh0nlI remind lis that we owe everything to their
yalOr and sacrifice.
Il is Il subject of congratulation that there is a
near prospect of the
ADMISSION INTO THE UNION
Of the Dakotas and Montana and Washington
territories. This act of justice has been unrea-
assnaliy delayed in the case of some of them. The
people who have settled these territories are in
tallgent, enterprsing and patriotic, and the &C
cession of these new states will add strength to
she nation.
THE FREEDOM OF THE 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 an equal interest that the election in
each shall truly express the views and wishes Of
a majority of the qualified electors residing with
IL L. LII IcSulIS Ol SuCu cicCllOuS L uOG local
and the insistence of electors residing in other
districts that they shall be pure and free not
savor at all of impertinence.
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 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
fntal disafr2ction 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.
Eacn state will bring its generous contribution to
the great aggregate Of the nations 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
hem all to crown with the highest honor the
state that>has promoted education, virtue, JUS
ice and patriotism among its people.
The crowd Immediately about the
platform remained with heads uncovered
turing the delivery of the entire address
and frequently interrupted the president
with vociferOus applause.