The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-06-20

which we pledge ourselves to promote,
and until such agreement ca lie OBJ
tained, the existing gold standard must
be preserved. All our silver and paper
currency now in circulation must be
maintained at a parity with gold, and
we favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolable the obligations of
the United States, and all our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present
standard, the standard of the most en-
iightenea nations of the earth"
THE veterans of the Union armies
deserve and should receive kind treat
ment and generous recognition. When
ever practicable they should be given
the preference in the matter of en-
ployment. and they are entitled to
the enactment of such laws as are best
calculated to secure the fulfllment of
the pledges made to them in the dark
days of the 'countly's peral. We de-
nounce the prartice in the pension
bureau, so recklessly and unjustly car
ried on by the present administration,
of reducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping names from the rolls. as de-
serving the severest condemnation OF
the American people.
% sour foreign policy should be at all
times. firm, vigorous ond dignified, and
all our interests in the western hemis-
phere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian island should be con-
trolled by the United States. and no
foreign power shoull be permitted to
interfere with them; the Nicaragua
operated by the United States and by
the purchase of the Danish island We
should secure the proper and much
needed naval station in the West
Indies.
THE massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just in
dignation eff the American people, and
we believe the United States should
exert all the influence it can properly
exert to bring these atrocities to an
eud. In Turkey American residents
haye been exposed to the gravest dam
gers and American property destroyed.
There, as everywhere, American citi-
zens and American property must be
absolutely protected 1T all hazards and
at any cost.
"We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
its fullest extent, and we reatfirm the
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect. by responding to the
appeals of any American state for
friendly intervention in case of Euro
pean encroachment.
I'VE have not interfered and shall
not interfere with the existing posses
sions of any European power in this
hemisphere, but those possessions
must not, on any pretext. be extended.
We hopefully look forward to the
eventual withdrawal of the European
powers from this hemisphere and to
the ultimate union of all the English-
speaking parts OF the continent by the
free consent of it's inhabitants.
From the hours of achieving their
own independence, the people of the
United States have regarded with sym
pathy the struggles of our American
people to free themselves from Euro
pean domination. We watch with
deep and abiding interest the heroi
battle of the Cuban patriots agai st
cruelty and oppression, and our best
hopes go cat for the full success of
their determined contest for liberty.
1.-THE government of Spain, having
lost control of Cuba, and being unable
to protect the property Or lives of resi-
dent American citizens, or to comply
With it's treaty obligations, we believe
the government of the United States
should actively use it's influence and
good Offices to restore peace and give
to Jne 1sfduu.
"The peace and security of the re-
public and the maintenance of its
rightful influence among the nation
of the earth, demand naval pow,r
commensurate with its position and re-
sponsibility. We, therefore, favor the
continued enlargement of The navy
and complete system of harbor and
seacoast defenses.
For the protection Of the quality of
our American citizenship and the
wages of our workingmen against the
fatal competition of low-priced labor,
we demaid that the immigration laws
be thoroughly enforced and so ex-
tended as TO exclude from entrance to
the United States those who can
neither read nor write.
"The civil service law was placed on
The statue books by the republican
party, which has always sustained il,
ind we renew our repeated declarations
hat it shall be thoroughly and honest
ly enforced and extended wherever
practicable.
1--WE demand that every citizen of
he United States shall be allowed to
cast one free and unrestricted ballot,
Ind that such ballot be counted and re-
urned as cast.
1--WE proclaim our unqualified con-
lemnation of the unciyilized and bar
porous practice, we'll known as lynch
ng, or killing of human beings sus-
,ected or charged with crime, without
,rocess of law.
"We favor the creation of.a national
,oard of arbitration to settle and ad-
ust differences which may arise be-
ween employers and employees in in
erstate commerce.
"We believe in an immediate re-
urn to the free homestead policy of
he republican party, and urge the
assage by congress OF the satisfactory
measure, which has al
eady passed the house and is now
ending in the senate.
"We favor the adm ssion Of the re-
laining territories at the earliest
racticable date, having due regard
, the interest of the territories and
le United States. All the federal
Ulcers appointed for the territories
lould be selected from bona fide resi-
ents thereof, and the right of self
overnment should be accorded as far
J practicable.
I'VE believe the citizens of Alaska
lould have representation in the con- /
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