The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-07-14

latorS, judges and eXecutionerS; and we APP
prove the bill passed at the last session
of the United States senate and now pend
ing in the house relative to contempts in
federal courts, and providing for trials by
jury in certain cases of contempt
No discrimination should be INDUCED in
by the government of the United States in
favor of any of its debtors. We approve of
the refusal of the Fifty-third congress to
pass the Pacific railroad funding bill, and
denounce the effort of the present Kepub
lican congress to enact similar measure.
Recognizing the just claims of deserving
Union soldiers we heartily endorse the
rule of the present commissioner
of pensions that no names shall
be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion roll, and the fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive evil
dence against disease and disability before
enlistment.
We favor the admission of the territories
of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union
as states. and we favor the early admis-
sion of all the territories having the neceS-
sary population and resources to entitle
them to statehood, and where they remain
territories we hold that the officials APP
pointed to administer the government of
any territory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, should be bona tide
residents of the territory of the district in
which their duties are to be performed.
rule and that all public lands of the United
States should be appropriated to the estab-
lishment of free homes for American citi-
zens We recommend that the Territory OF
Alaska be granted delegate in congress
and that the general land and timber laws
of the United States be extended to said
territory.
We extend our sympathy TO the people OF
Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty ana
independence.
We are opposed to life tenure in the pub
lie service. We favor appointments based
upon merit, fixed terms of Office and such
an administration of the civil service laws
as will afford equal opportunity to all clti-
Zens Of aScertained fitness.
We declare it to be the unwritten law of
this republic, established by the custom
and usage of one hundred years and sane
toned by the examples of the greatest and
wisest of those who founded and nave main
tanned our government, that no man should
be eligible for third term of the presi-
Dental office
The federal government should care for
and Improve the mississippi Tiver ana other
great waterways of the republic, so as to
secure for the interior states easy and
cheap transportation to tideWater. When
any waterway of the republic is of sufh-
cient Importance to demand aid of the gov
ernment such aid should be extended upon
a definite plan Of continuous work, untiG
permanent Improvement is secured.
Confding in the justice of our cause and
the necessity of it's success at the polls, we
submit the foregoing declaration of prin-
ciDles and purposes to the conSiderate judg-
ment Of the American people. We invite
the support of all citizens who approve
them and who desire to have them made
effective through legislation for the relief
Of the people and the restoration of the
countryS prosperity.