The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-27

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FOREIGN Immigration.-The declaration
OF the platform touching foreign immi graz
ton. is one OF peculiar Importance az this
time when our own laboring people are
N such great distress ] am in hearty
sympathy with the present legislation re
stricting foreign immigra tion. ami favor
such extension of the laws as Will secure
the United States from invasion by the
debased and criminal classes of the old
world While we adhere TO the public
policy under which our country has re-
ceived great bodies of honest. Industrious
citizens. who have added TO the wealth.
progress and power OF the country. and
while we welcome TO our shores the well
disposed and Industrious immigrant who
contributes by his energy and intelligence
to the cause OF free government, We want
no immigrants who do not seek our shores
to become citizens. We should permit
none TO participate IN the advantages Of
our civilization who do not sympathize
with our aims and form Of government
We should receive none who come to
make war upon our institutions and profit
by public disduiet and turmoil. Against
all such our gates must be lightly closed
Our Soldiers and Sailors.-The soldiers
and sailors OF the union should neither be
neglected nor forgotten. The government
which they served so well must not make
their lives or condition harder BY treat
or distress. nor regard with disdain or
contempt the earnest interest one cOmrade
naturally manifests in the welfare of an
other. Doubtless there have been pension
abuses and frauds in the numerous claims
allowed by the government. but the policy
governing the administration of the pen
sion bureau must always be fair and lib
eral No deserving applicant should ever
suffer because of a wrong perpetrated by
or for another. Our soldiers and sailors
gave the government the best they had.
| They freely offered health. strength. limb
and life TO save the country in the time Of
its greatest peril and the government must
honor them in their need as in their ser
vice with the respect and gratitude due to
brave noble and self sacrificing men who
are justly entitled TO generous aid in their
increasing necessities.
Our Merchant Marine and Navy-The
declaration Of the republican platform in
favor OF the upbuilding of our merchant
marine has my hearty approval. The pol
icy of discriminating duties in favor of
our shipping which prevailed in the early
years of our history should be again
promptly adopted by congress and vigor-
OuSly supported until our prestige and
supremacy on the seas Is fully attained.
We should no longer contribute directly
or indirectly to the maintenance of the
| colossal marine of foreign countries, but
provide an efficient and complete ma
can navy is assuming a position COM
mensurate with our importance as a ma
ton, a policy l am glad to observe, the
republican platform strongly indorses we
must supplement 1t with a merchant ma
rine that will give US the advantages in
both our coastwise and foreign trade that
we ought naturally and properly enjoy.
| 1t should be at once matter of
public policy and national pride to repos-
sess this immense and prosperous trade.
Civil Service Reform.-The pledge of the
republican national convention that our
| civil service laws shall be sustained AMI
thoroughly and honestly enforced and ex-
tended wherever practicable" is In keep
ing with the position OF the party for the
past twenty-four years, and will be faith
| fully observed. Our opponents decry these
reforms. They appear willing to abandon
the advantages gained, after so many
/ years of agitation and effort, They en-
| courage a return TO methods OF party ia
| voritsm which both parties have often
! denounced, that experience has condemn
| ed, and that the people have repeatedly
disapproved. The republican party earn
| estly opposes this reactionary and entire-
! ly unjustifable policy. 1t will take no
backward step upon this question 1t will
seek to improve, but never degrade the
| public service.
1t Demands Special Attention.-There
are other important and timely declara-
tions in the platform which 1 cannot here
| discuss must content myself with saying
that they have my approval. If, as repub-
! licans, we have lately addressed our at
| tention, with what may seem great stress
| and earnestness to the new and unexpect-
\ ed assault upon the financial integrity of
| the government, we have done it because
| the menace is so grave as to demand es-
| pecial consideration and because we are
| convinced that If the people are aroused to
the true understanding and meaning of
| this silver and imitation movement they
will avert the danger. In doing this we
| feel that we render the best service posi-
/ BILE to the country, and we appeal TO the
intelligence, conscience and patriotism Of
the people, irrespective of party or section.
for their earnest support.
It VIII Maintain Law and Order-We
/ avoid no issue. We meet the sudden,
| dangerous and revolutionary assault upon
| law and order. and upon those TO whom
| is confided by the constitution and laws
i the authority to uphold and maintain
| them, which our opponents have made,
| with the same courage that we have faced
| every emergency since our organization
| as a party, more than forty years ago.
| Government by law must first be assured.
| everything else can wait. The spirit of
| lawlessness must be eXtinguished by the
| fires of an unselish and lofty patriot
ism. Every attack upon the public faith
and every suggestion of the repudia-
ton of debts, public or private must be
rebuked by all men who believe that
| honesty is the best policy, or who love
! their country and would preserve unsul-
| lied its national honor.
Sectionalism Almost Obliterated-The
country is to be congratulated upon the
! almost total obliteration of sectional lines,
which for so many years marked the di-
| vision of the United states into slave and
free territory, and finally threatened its
! partition into two separate governments
by the dread ordeal Of civil war. The era
of reconciliation, so long and earnestly
| desired by Gen. Grant and many other
great leaders, north and south, has hap
! PLY come and the feeling of distrust and
| hostility between the sections is every
where vanishing, let us hope never to re-
turn. Nothing is better calculated to give
strength to the national home, increase
our power and influence abroad and add
TO the permanency and security Of our
free institutions than the restoration Of
cordial relations between the people Of all
sections and parts Of our beloved country.
If called by the suffrages of the people
to assume the duty Of the high ONCE Of