The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-06-27

signed to maintain inviOlabiy the obi
cations OF the United States. and all our
money, whether coin or paper at the
present standard, the standard, of the
most enlightened nations of the earth.
Pensions.
The veterans of the union armies de-
serve and should receive treatment. and
generous treatment. Wherever practical
bic, they should be given the preference
in the matter of employment. and they
are entitled to the enactment of such
laws as are best calculated to secure the
fulhllment of the pledges made to them
in the dark days of the countrys peril.
We denounce the practice 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.
Foreign Relations.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignihed, ami
all our interests in the western hemi-
sphere carefully watched and guarded
The Hawaiian islands should be con
troled by the United States, and no for
eign power should be permitted to inter-
fere with them; the Nicaragua canal
should be built. owned and operated by
the United States and by the purchase
of the Danish islands. we should secure
a proper and much needed naval station
in the West Indies.
Armenian Mnssncres.
The massacres in Armenia have arous-
ed the deep sympathy and just indignl-
ton Of the American people, and we be-
ieVe the United States should exercise
all the influence it can properly exert to
bring these atrocities to an end In Tur-
key American residents have been ex-
posed to the gravest dangers and Amer
lean property destroyed. There and ev-
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can property must be absolutely protect
ed at all hazards and at any cost.
Monroe Doctrine.
We assert the Monroe doctrine to its
fullest extent, ana reatfirm the right Of
the United States to give the doctrine
effect by responding TO the appeals of
any American state for friendly inter
vention in the case of European en-
croachment. We have not interf red and
shall not interfere with the existing pos
sessions 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 ulti-
mate union of all the Eng iish-speaking
parts of the continent by free consent
of its inhabitants.
The Cuban Matter.
From the hour acnieving their own
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of the other American peoples
to free themselves from European domi-
nation. We watch with deem and abiding
interest the heroic battle of the Cuban
patriots against the cruelty and oppres-
sion of Spain. and our best hopes go ont
for the full success of their determined
contest for liberty. The government of
Spain, having lost controi OF Cuba, and
being unable to protect the property or
lives of the resident American citizens
or to comply with it's treaty Obligations
we believe the government of the United
States should actively use las influence
and good offices to restore peace AMI
give independence to the island.
The Navy.
The peace and security of the republic
and the maintenance of it's rightfu in
fiuence among the nations of the earth
demand naval power commensurate
with its position and responsibility. We
therefore favor the continued enlarge
ment of the navy and a complete system
OF harbor and sea coast defenses.
Foreign Immigration.
For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and OF the wages
of our workmen against the competition
of the w-priced laborer. We demand
that the immigration laws be thoroughly
enforced, and so extended as TO exclude
from entrance to the United States those
VINO can neither read nor write.
Civil Service.
The civil service law was placed on
the statute books by the republican par
ty. which has always sustained it. and
We renew our repeated declarations that
it shall be thoroughly and honestly en-
forced and extended wherever practical
BILE.
Free Ballot.
We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast a
free and unrestricted ballot and that
such ballot shall be counted and returned
as SUCH
Lynchings.
We proclaim our unqualified cOndemna-
ton of the uncivilized and barbarous
practice well known as lynching. or kill
| ing human beings suspected Or charged
with crime without due process of law.
National Arbitration.
We favor the creation of a national
board Of arbitration, TO settle and adjust
all differences which may arise between
the employers and employed engaged in
Interstate commerce.
HOmesteads.
We believe in an immediate return %
the free homestead principle of the re-
publican party. and urge the passage by
! congress of the satisfactory flee home
| stead measure which has already passed
the house and is now pending in the
senate.
The Territories.
! We favor the admission of the re-
naming territories at the earliest prac-
| ticable date, having due regard to the in
/ terests of the territories and the United
! States. All the federal officers appoint
! ed for the territories should be selected
| from bona iide residents thereof, and the
right Of self-government should be ac-
| corded as far AS practicable. We believe
! the citizens of Alaska should have rep
resentation in the congress of the United
| States. to the end that needful legislation
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