The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-23

6QaCGn6QG Oh SUCH laws DIS are O0SG Ca1'
| culated to secure the fUlfllment Of the
pledges made to them in the dark days
of the country's peril. We denounce
the practice in the Pension Bureau, so
recklessly and unjustly carried on by
the present Administration, ofreducing
pensions and arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls, as deserving the
~severest condemnation of the Ameri-
can people.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at all
times firm, vigorous and dignifed, and
ell our interests in tia Western Hemis
phere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian Islands should be con
trolled by the United States, and no
foreign power should b8 permitted 20
to interfere 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,
MAS SACRES
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and Just
indignation of the American people,
and we believe that the U nited States
should exercise all the influence it can
properly exert to bring these atrocities
to an end. In Turkey American resi-
dents have been exposed to the gravest
dangers and Americ IN property de-
stroyed. There and everywhere Amer
lean citjz 3ns and American property
must be absolutely protected at all
hs Z ,rds and at any cost.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
We re assert the Monroe Doctrine in
its full extent, and we re,affirm the
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect by responding to the
appeals of any American State for
friendly intervention in case of Ell
rOpean 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 pre-
text, be extended. We hopefully look
forward to the eventual withdrawal of
the European powers from this hemi-
sphere, to the ultimate union of all of
the English speaking part Of the CONT
nent by the free consent Of its inhab
itants.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA
From the hour of achieving their
own independence the people of the
United States have regarded with sym
pathy the struggles Of other American
peoples to free themselves from Euro
pean domination. We watch with |
deep and abiding iaterest the heroic
battle of the Cuban patriots against
cruelty and oppression, and our best
hopes go out for the full success of
their determined contest for liberty.
The Government Of Spain, having
lost control of Cuba, and being unable !
to protect the property or lives of resi-
dent American citizens, or to comply |
with its treaty obligations, we believe !
that the Government of the United
should actively use its il huence
and good off 3es to restore pace and
give independence to the island,
NAVY SHOULD BE ENLARGED.
The peace and security of the Re ]
and the maintenance Of its
influence among the nations
of the earth demand a naval power
commensurate with its position and re-
sponsibility. We therefore favor the
continued enlargement of the navy
and a complete system of harbor and
seacoast defenses.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
For the protection Of the equality Of
our American citizenship, and of the
wages of our workingmen against the
fatal competition of low-priced labor,
demand that the immigration laws
be thoroughly enforced, and ways so
extended as to exclude from entrance
to the United States those who can
read nor write.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
The civil service law was placed on
the statute book by the Republican
party, which has always sustained it,
and we renew our repeated declara-
that it shall be thoroughly and
honestly enforced and extended wher-
ever practicable.
FREE N TRICTED BALLOT.
We demand that every citizen Of the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one free and unrestricted ballot. and