Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-25

cable, they ShOulu Do gwen bhe pToioAcnoS
in the matter Of employment, and they
are entitled TO the enactment OF such LAWS
as are best calculated to secure the fulnll-
ment Of the pledges made to them in the
dark days Of the country's peril. We de-
nounce the practice in the pension bureau,
80 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 and dignified, 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 shoul be
permitted TO interfere with them; the
N%icaraguan canal shoald 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.
The Armenian DIassacres.
The massacres ia Armenia cave aroused
the deep sympathy and just Indignation
ST the American peoaleau2 we believe that
the United States should exercise all b
influence it can possibly exert to- bring
these atrocities to an end In IurEeg
American residents have be5n exposed to
the grayest dangers and property de-
stroyed. There and everywhere, Amerl-
can citizens and American properly must
be absolutely protected at al hazards and
at any cost.
Tile Monroe Doctrine.
We r~eassert the Monroe doctrine in its
full extent, and we reaflirm the right of
the United States to give the doctrine Of
feet by responding TO the appeals of any
American state for friendly intervention
in case of European encroachment. 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 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 En~glish-speak-
ing part of the continent by the free con-
sent Of It's 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 to
free themselves from European domino
ton. We watch with deep and abiding
interest the heroic battle of the 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 it's
treaty obligations, we believe that the
government OF the United States should
actively use its 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 it's rightful influ-
ence among the nations of the earth de-
mand a naval power commensurate with
it's position and responsibility. We, there.
fore, favor tho continued enlargement of
the navy and a complete system of harbor
and sea coast defenses.
As to Foreign Immigration.
For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and of the wages OF
our workingmen against the fatal compe-
tition of low priced labor, we demand that
the immigration laws be thoroughly en-
forced, and so extended as to exclude from
entrance 10 the United States those who
can neither read nor write.
The Civil Service.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the Republican party,
which has always sustained 1t, and we re-
new repeated declarations hat it shall
be thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable.
free Ballot and Fair Count.
We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast one
free and unrestricted ballot, and that such
ballot shall be counted and returned as
cast.
Condemn Lynching.
We proclaim our unqualified condemns
ton of the uncivilized and barbarous
practice, well known as lynching or kill
ing of human beings, suspected or charged
with crime, without process of law.
National Arbitration.
VIZ favor the creation of a national
board of arbitration to settle and adjust
differences which may arise between en-
ployers and employed engaged in inter-
state commerce..
Free Homesteads.
We believe in an immediate return to
the free homestead policy of the Repub-
lican party, and urge the passage by con-
gress OF the satisfactory free homestead
measure which has already passed the
house and is now pending in the senate.
Admission of Territories.
Wedavor the admission Of the remain
ing territories at the earliest practicable
date, having due regard TO the interests Of
the people of the territories and of the
United States. All the federal officers ap-
pointed for the territories should be elect
ed from bona fide residents thereof, and
the right of self-governincnt should be ac-
corded as far as practicable.
We believe the citizens of Alaska should
have representation in the of the
United States to the end that needful leg
islation may be intelligently enacted.
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