The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-18

roads have been restored to the public
domain, IL pursuance of the conditions
inserted by the Republican party in
the original grants We charge the
Democratic administrator with failure
to execute the law securing to settlers
title to their homesteads, and with
using appropriations made for that
purpose to harass innocent settlers
with spies and prosecutions, under tr
false pretense of exposing frauds and
vindicating the law.
The Republican party is In favor of
the use of both gold and silver as money,
and condemns the policy of the Demo
cratic administration in its eff1rts to
demonetize silver
We demand the reduction of letter
postage to one cent an ounce.
In a Republic like ours, where the
citizen is the sovereign and the official
the servant where no power is exer-
cised except by the will of the people,
it is important that the sovereign-the
people-should possess intelligence
The free school is the promoter OF that
intelligence which is to preserve us a
free nation; therefore the State or Ma
tion, or both combined, should support
free institutions of learning sufficient
to afford to every child growing up in
the land the opportunity of a good
common school education.
We earnestly recommend that
prompt action be taken by Congress
for the enactment of such legislation as
will best secure the rehabilitation of
our American merchant marine, and
we protest agains the passage by Con
gress of free ship bill. as calculated
to work injustice 70 labor by lessening
the wages of those engaged In prepar-
ing material as we'll as those directly
employed in our ship yards. We de
mand appropriations for the early re-
building of our navy; for the construc
tion of coast Notifications and modern
ordinance and other approved modern
means of defense for the protection of
our defenseless harbOrs and cities; for
the payment of just pensions to our
soldiers; for necessary works of nation
al Importance in the improvement IF
harbors and the channels of internal,
cOastwise and foreign commerce for
the encouragement Of the shipping in
terests of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific
States, as well as for the payment of
the maturing public debt This policy
will give employment to our labor, ac-
tivity to our various industries, increase
the security Of our country, promote
trade, open new and direct markets
for our produce, and cheaper trans
portation We. affirm this to be far
better for our country than the Demo
cratic policy OF loaning the govern
menJ's money without interest TO ''pet
banks"
The conduct Of IoreIgn affairs by the
present administration has been distin-
guished by its inefficiency and its
cowardice. Having withdrawn from
the Senate all pending treaties effected
by Republican administration for the
removal of foreign burdens and re
strictions upon our commerce and for
its extension into better markets. it
has neither effected or proposed any
others in their stead. Processing ad
herence to the Monroe doctrine, it has
seen with idle complacency the exten-
sion of foreign influence in Central
America and of foreign trade every
where among our neighbors. 1t has
refused to charter, sanction, or encour-
age any American organization for
constructing the Nicaragua canal, a
work of vital Importance to the main
tainance Of the Monroe doctrine and
of our national influence in Central
and South America, and necessary for
the development of trade with our
Pacific territory, with South America
and with the islands and farther coasts
of the Pacific ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic
administration for its weak and unpa
triotic treatment of the fisheries ques-
ton and its pusillanimous surrender
of the essential privileges by which
our fishing vessels are entitled in Cana
dian ports under the treaty of 1918,
the reciprocal maritime, legislation of
1880, and the comfy of nations, and
which Canadian fishing vessels receive
in the ports of the United States We
condemn the policy of the present ad-
ministration and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress toward our fisheries
as unfriendly and conspicuously unpa
triotic and as tending to destroy a
valuable national industry and an in
dispensable resource of defense against
foreign enemy.
The name of American applies alike
to all citizens of the Republic and i'm
poses upon all alike the same obliga-
tion of obedience to the laws. At the
same time that citizenship is and must
be the panoply and safeguard Of him
who wears it and protect him whether
high or low, rich or poor, in all his
civil rights. It should and must afford
him protection at home and follow and
protect him abroad in whatever land
he may be on lawful errand.
The men who abandoned the Repub-
lican party In 1884 and continued to
adhere to the Democratic party have
deserted not only the cause of honest
government, of sound finance, of free
dom, and purity of ballot, but espe-
cially having deserted the cause of re
form in the civil service. We viii not
fail to keep our pledges because they
have broken theirs, or because their
fore reneat olIr declaration of 1884 to