The Dickinson press., 1889-03-09

give advA' us to appointments shall exercise
consideration anil 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. hut it will in no
case be allowed to serve as a SHIELD of official
negligence, incompet 'ncy or delinquency. 1t is
entirely creditable to seek public office ty proper
methods.
1t WILLIS 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
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 adequat. and discriminating re-
liri to the Union soldiers and sailors and to their
widows and orphans. Such occasions rs this
should remind us that We owe everything to their
ynlor and sacrifice.
~ I" - Vi NcuSl klhL luSIC Is "a
pear prospect of the
ADMISSION INTO THE UNION
of the Dako.as AMI 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-
t~ai!igent, cnierprising and patriotic, and the nc.
cession of these new states will add strength to
the nation.
THE FREEDOM OF THE BALLOT
lisa condition of our national life, and no power
vested in congress or in the executive to secure
Or pcrpetuate 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
in ii. The results of such elections are not local
and The insiStcnce "f electors residing in other
districts that they shall he pure and free not
SAVIOR at all of imprrtinencr.
do not miStrust the future. Dangers have
been i'll 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 lis 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
fatal disaffection in its own body. The peaceful
agencies of 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 nations increase. and
when the harveSts from the field, the cattle from
the hills and the ores of the earth shall have beer
weighed, counted and valued, we will turn from
them all to crown will the highest honor the
state that has promoted education. virtue, jus
ttce and patriotism among its people.
The crowd Immediately about til.
platform remained with heads uncovered
during the delivery of the entire address
and frequently interrupted the president
with vocifcrous applause.