St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-04-25

the maintenance of both army and navy
at that high degree of efficiency requisite
to uphold our national honor, to estab-
lish and preserve the ascendency of the
federal government throughout all our
domains and to protect everywhere the
interests of our citizens and of all who
may be dependent upon us.
We acknowledge with fervent graft
tude the merits and distinguished servi-
ces of our veteran soldiers and sailors,
both of the civil war and OF the late war
with Spain.
We desire and look forward with eager
anticipation to the building and early
completion of the Nicaragua canal, under
American CONTROL as the needed thread
of commercial connection between the
two great spheres of American influence,
in the East and in the West. and to the
laying of cable line across the Pacific.
The republicans of Vermont are today
as they have always been in the past, I'M
alterably opposed to every measure or
policy calculated to debase the currency
or impair the credit of this nation, and
are, therefore, opposed, in the absence of
international agreement on that subject
among the leading nations of the world,
to the free coinage Of silver, and are
strongly and heartily in favor of the
maintenance of the single gold standard.
The silver and paper currency should be
maintained at a parity with gold, and
every dollar bearing the imprint of the
national government should carry with
it full faith and credit at its face value
and be of equal purchasing power in all
the markets of the world.
We believe that this country should
man(ully accept and shoulder the in
creased duties and responsibilities that
have come to it during the present adj
MISUNDERSTANDING the wish and free
choice Of the peoples concerned in the ac-
cession of the Hawaiian Islands-through
the fortunes OF war and as the glorious
fruit of the heroic achievements of Ameri-
can sailors and soldiers in the island pos
sessions that became ours by the terms
OF our treaty with Spain.
We unhesitatingly proclaim our con-
viction that from over no inch OF this
newly acquired territory, where the stars
and stripes have foated, carrying their
promises of enlightenment and freedom,
should that flag be lowered or that
promise be withdrawn.
So long as any of the inhabitants of
any OF these islands continue in state
of instruction against the authority of
the United States, it is the duty OF the
government to quel such instruction
and to establish there tranquility and
order. Whether or not the costitution
follows the flag, we believe that the good
faith of the American people must stand
unquestioned wherever the stars and
stripes are seen and that we are bound
by justice and humanity to deal with the
question arising out of our own new pos
sessions in the spirit of the American con-
stitution and civilization.
We endorse most heartily the wise, able
and patriotic administration OF our great
President, and nothing would afford the
Republicans Of Vermont greater pleasure
and satisfaction that to be permitted
once again to lead the vanguard of the
republican forces to victory in the coming
national contest under the banner of Will
liam Mckinley.