Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-06-26

piper, at the present Standard
the standard of the most enligbt
ened nations of the earth.
! The veterans of the Union army
deserve and should receive fair
treatment and generous recog-
nltiOn. Whenever practicable
they should be given the prefer
euce in matter of employment, and
they are enlitltd d to the enactment
OF such laws as are best calculate Il
to secure The fulfiIlmeut of the
pledges made TO them in the dark
days of the country's peril. We
drhOunce the practice in the pen
sion bureau, so recklessly aud un'
lastly carried on by the present
administration, of reducing pen
sions aud arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls as deserving
the severest condemnation of the
American people.
Oar foreign policy should be at
all times firm, vigorous and dlgnl'
fed. and all our interests in the
western hemisphere Carefully
watched and guarded. The HAw.
alian Islands should be controlled
by the United States and no foreign
power should be permitted 10 IN
terfere With them; the Nlcaragnan
canal should be built, owned and
operated 10y the United States,
and 10y the purchase Of the Danish
Islands we should secure a proper
and much needed naval station IN
the West Indies.
The masSacres IN Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and
lust Indignation of the American
people, and we believe that the
United States should exercise all
the Influence 1t can properly eXer'
to bring these atrocities to an end.
Ii Turkey, American residents
have been exposed to the gravest
dangers and American property
destroyed. There and every where
American citizens and American
property must be absolutely pro
tected at all hazards and at any
cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine
in It's full extent, and we Teailirm
the right of lie United States to
give the doctrine effect by respond.
log to the appeals of any American
State tor friendly intervention in
case of European eDcrOachment,
We have not interfered, and shall
not interfere, with the existing
possessions of any European power
in this hemisphere, but those
possessions must not on any pre-
text be extended. We hopefully
look forward to the eventual with.
drawal Of the European powers
from this hemisphere and to ii Q
ultimate union of all English-
,peaking parts of the continent by
The free consent of Its Inhabitants
From the honor of achieving
their own independence the people
of the United States have regard
ed With sympathy the struggle OF
other American peoples TO free
themselves from European dom
ination. We watch with derp
and abiding interest the heroic
battle OF CabIn patriots against
cruelty and oppression ard our
best hopes go out for the full sue
cess of their determined contest
for liberty.
The government of Spain having
lost centrol of Cuba and be ng
unable to protect the properly OF
lives of resident American citizens
or to comply with 1ts treaty OBJ
legations we believe that the gov
ernment Of the United States
should actively use its influence
and good Office to restore peace
and give independence to the
island.
The peace and security OF the
republic and the maintenance OF
its rlghtfuI influence among the
nations of the earth demand n
Dayal power commensurate with
It's position and responsibility. We
therefore favor the continued en-
largement of the navy and com.
plete system Of harbOr aud sea.
co st defeuSes,
For the protection OF the quality
of our American citizenship aud
of tue wages of our workingmen
against the fatal competition OF
low. price labor, we demand that
the immigration laws be thorough
ly enforced, aud so extended as 10
exclude from entrance to the u nited
/ States these who Can neither read
nor write.
The eivil.seryIce law was placed