The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-08-06
We arc unaltsrsbly Opposed to every

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ment can be obtained the existing gold
standard must be maintained at parity
with gold, and we favor all measures de.
signed to maintain inviolably the obliga.
tions 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.
Favor Liberal Pensions.
The veterans of the Union army deserve
snd should receive fair treatment epd
generous recognition. Whenever practi.
cable, they should be given the preference
In the matter of employment, and they
are entitled to the enactment Of such laws
rs are best calculated to secure tho fulfill.
ment of the pledges made to them In the
lark days Of the country's peril. We de-
nounce the practice In the pension bureau,
20 recklessly and ~unjustly carried on by
the present administration, of reducing
pensions and arbitrarily dropping names
from the rolls as deserving the severest
condemnation Of the American people.
Our Foreign Relations.
Our foreign policy should be at all times
firm, vigorous Ind dignifed, and all our
interests In the Western hemisphere care
FULLY watched and guarded. The Hawaiian
Islands should be controlled by the United
States, and no foreign power should be
permitted TO interfere with them; the
N~ioaraguan canal should be built, owned
and opera ed 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.
The Armenian Massacrss.
the deep sympathy and just Indignation
of the Americ ar people and we believe that
the United States should exercise all the
influence 1t can possibly exert to bring
these atrocities to an snd. In Turkey,
American residents nave been exposed to
the gravest dangers and property de-
stroyed. There and everywhere, Ameri-
can citizens and American property must
be absolutely protected at all hazards and
ut any cost.
The Monroe Doctrine.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine In its
full extent, and VIC reafiirn the right Of
the United States to give the doctrine CT
feet by responding TO the appeals Of any
American state for friendly Intervention
In case of European encroachmsnt. We
have not interfered and shall not interfere
with the existing possessions of any Euro
pean power In this hemisphere, but those
possessions must not, on m 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 Eng1sh-speak-
ing part of the continent by the free CON-
sent of its inhabitants.
Should Interfere in Cuba.
From the hour of achieving their own
Independence the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of other American peoples IN
free themselves from European domino
zion. We watch with deep and abiding
interest the heroic battle Of tbs Cuban
patriots against cruelty and oppression,
and our best hopes go out for the full sue
cess, of their determined contest for
liberty.
The government of Spain, having lost
control of Cuba and being unable to pro-
tect the property or lives Of resident
American citizens, or to comply with its
treaty obligations, we believe that the
government of the United States should
! actively use it's influence and good offices
to restore peace and give independence to
the island.
Would Increase the Navy.
The peace and security of the republic
and the maintenance Of its rightful infu.
enoe among the nations Of the Garth do
mand a naval power commensurate with
It's position and responsibility. We, there,
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the navy and a complete system Of harbor
and sea coast defenses.
As to Foreign Immigration.
For the protection of the quality Of oul
American citizenship and Of the a OF
our w~orkingmen against the fatal o0mpo
tition oflow priced labor, we demand that
tho immigration laws be thoroughly en-.
forced, and so extended rs to exclude from
entrance to the United States those who
can neither read nor write.
The Civil Service.
The civil ser vice law was placed on the
statute book by the Republican party
which has always sustained it, and we re
new our repeated declarations that 10 shall
be thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable. .
Free Ballot and Fair Count
We demand that every citizen of che
United States shall be allowed to cast ons
free and unrestricted ballot, and that such
ballot shall be counted and returned 81
cast.
Condemn Lynching.
We proclaim our unqualified oopdsmna.
ton Of the uncivilized and barbarous
practice, well known as lynshing or kill
ing of human beings, suspected or ohafged
with crime, without process of law.
National Arbitration.
We favor tho creation Of Q national
board of arbitration to SETTLE and adds,