Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-01


and our commerce.
The meat inspection laws of the Ffty-frst
congress, which the senate had twice before
passed but which failed in q Democratic
house, enabled the president, through the
efficient administration of the state and
agricultural departments, to open markets
for our meat products in all European
states, barred to our people for nearly ten
years.
The controversy, relating to our seal pos
sessions in Alaska, has been satisfactorily
disposed of by a treaty with Great Britain
which will forever settle that vexed ques-
ton and, have no doubt in satisfactory
way, honorable alike to both countries.
SUCCESSFUL AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Our complications with Chilli, at one time
threatening, were disposed of in way to
reflect credit upon our country. And just
now, with our northern neighbors in the
Dominion of Canada, we have demonstrated
that justice must be done, even though
harsh measures be necessary to secure 1t.
In all our relations and complications with
other countries n vigorous, and at the same
time conservative, policy has been
steadily pursued and successfully main
tanned
At home we have had successful ad-
ministration of our internal affairs; labor
has received an adequate reward and con-
slant employment; our agriculture has
hourished our industries have been pros
porous, and many new ones established;
reasonable computation; our foreign COM
merce has received n new impetus under
the recent legislation of congress supple
| mented by friendly administration; our
trade. foreign and domestic, is in n healthy
and prosperous condition: our finances are
| in n healthy condition; our currency ample
in volume, and uniform in value is being
| steadily increased under the legislation of
| $780,
The national defense is not neglected, as
mil of ON pppH ms w
reasonable progress in coast defences illus
| trate. Our national laws are mildly but
| firmly administrated, so as to remove all
| cause for discomfort. In short, this has been
| and is a business administration, looking
actively to the promotion of every interest
| and to the continued progress and develop
| ment of our country in close and active com
| petition, as it is with the civilized nations
| of the earth for supremacy.
THE MAJORITY MUST RULE.
The Republican congress, elected with the
! president performed faithfully its great
| part in this work 1t established, not soon
| to DE overthrown, the principle that the ma
| jority of the house, for the time being, is re-
sponsible to the country for needed legisla-
ton. This principle established, the house
practically took hold of the great questions
pressing upon the country for considera-
| ton.
Our tariff and internal revenue laws,
| yielding far beyond the necessities of the
| government, called for revision, both par
| ties having twice promised such revision in
their platforms.
Many of our industries, enfeebled by the
sharp competition of other countries where
4 labor was much cheaper, required some ad-
ditional fostering care in order to survive
| the conflict
The continuous withdrawal of national
| bank notes from our circulation made neces-
sary new provisions for increasing the cur
| rency of the country commensurate with
our growing wants.
The old soldiers of the republic, enfeebled
! by disease and old age or broken by misfor-
tune, had just claim upon the government
| they had saved, for some just pension lesis-
lation to aid them in their declining years.
This justice required that our pension laws
should be liberalized and enlarged for their
| benefit The growing agSressions of CAPT
| tai combining in the form of trusts to control
| production and distribution, required that
laws should be passed to the extent of the
| Jurisdiction of congress for their repression.
Our new navy, in the course of authorize
ton and construction, needed large appro-
priations for the continuance of the work of
! construction,
Our sea coast cities defenseless, needed
appropriations to begin their proper de-
| Tense.
REVISION OF LAND LAWS.
Our land laws needed revision in the in
! tercst of the settler and pioneer. The
boundaries of our Indian reservations too
large, needed curtailment for the promotion
of white settlement and for the develop
ment of the new states and territories.
Our courts, clogged and congested by the
rapid growth of our country, need reorgan-
! iZation.
e., Our agricultural colleges benefcent In
their influence, needed aid from the general
government to enlarge their usefulness In
the promotion of better modes of agricul-
turc.
The direct tax during the war, had been
drawn from a majority of the states and had
| not been paid by minority of the states.
Justice required that these taxes should be
refunded to the states that had paid them,
or collected from the states that had not.
The most convenient solution of the diff
fculty was to provide for the refunding to
the states that had paid.
| GREAT INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
! The rapid growth of the south, in it's new
pressure upon congress for enlarged
appropriations for its rivers and harbors,
notably for a large expenditure to establish
a deep seaport on the gulf of Mexico. The
Mississippi and its tributaries, with its
mouth at the gulf and its tributary waters
skirting the feet of the Alleghenies and the
Rocky mountains, and its sources bordering
on the British possessions, forming sys-
tenn of internal waterways unknown else
\ where on the globe, If improved, required
and requires large appropriations. The
growing northwest, extending with its trade
to the Pacific, also demands easy access to
the sea by the great chain of lakes lying on
our northern border and now carrying more
than 30 per cent of our internal commerce,
needed improvement and enlargement OF
its canals.
These and many MINOR matters less i'm,
Portant, though important, pressed upon the
Fifty-frst congress for solution. Many OF
these had before received favorable action
of the senate, but were lost in the misty
mazes of Democratic house. All these
subjects, so important and the accumula
ton of years of conflict between a Demo
cratic house and q Republican senate, were
taken up and disposed of, and in such a
way as to stand the test of all criticism
and, with the exception of the tariff revi
sion and possibly the silver law, stand to.
day without criticism by our political foes
Many of these laws required large appro
priations for their execution, notably the
pension law, and provisions for improve
ment of rivers and harbors, and the Law
granting bounty to the producers of sugar
The appropriations for rivers and harbors
and for sugar production, received warn
approval in the south, and their cry is still
for more, as children cry for Pitchers
Castoria.
These in outline are some of the achieve
ments of theRepublican party during Presi
dent Harrison's administration How
marked is the contrast in comparison with
the four years of President Cleveland, anC
with Democratic control in the house
They dealt with none of these pressing ant
complex questions, then pressing q:
pressing as later, only in a way to show
how not to do it.
The currency question was pressin;
then as later. They did nothing.
REVISION OF THE REVENUE LAWS
Our revenues were excessive then a!
later, in violation of their promises made il
1884, they allowed an entire congress to pass
without action. During the second con
gress of President Cleveland's term, will
another election pressing hard, at the enc
| of July. 1885, about the time congress SHOULD