The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-27

ficient answer to the charge of viola
ton of national good faith. They ap-
preciate that the principles and healthy
convictions which in their working out
have made us free and great stand
firmly against the argument or sugges-
ton that we shall be blind to the ma
ture of the means employed to pro-
mote our welfare. They hold that ad-
herence to principle, whether it works
for our good or i'll, will have a more
benefcent influence on our future
destiny than all our material upbuild-
ing, and that we should ever remember
that the idea of doing a wrong to a
smaller, weaker nation that we, or even
all mankind may have resultant
upon which our government was found
ed
Under the laws Of the United States
| the duty is imposed upon the executive
to proceed with due diligence in the
work Of constructing the canal. That
duty should be promptly performed.
AMERICAN SHIPPING
Our commerce in American bottoms
amounts to but nine per cent. of our
total exports and imports. For
forty years prior to 1861, when the
Republican party came into power, our
merchant marine carried an average
of eighty per cent of our for
eign commerce. BY 1877 it had dwin-
died to twenty-seven per cent Now
we carry but contemptibly small
fraction of our exports and imports.
American shipping in the foreign
trade was greater by almost one hun
dred thousand tons in 1S10-nearly
year In the face of the continuous
decline in the record of American
shipping during the last forty-three
years, the promise of the Republican
party to restore it is without encour-
agement. The record of the Demo
cratic party gives assurance that the
task can be more wisely entrusted tc
It,
1t Is an arduous task to undo the
effect of forty years of decadence, ant
requires the study and investigation
of those best fitted by experience tc
find the remedy-which surely doe
not lie in the granting of subsidies
9 wrung from the pockets of all tax
, payers.
, INVESTIGATION OF GOVERNMENT
e DEPARTMENTS.
e Recent disclosures, coupled with tn
= rapid augmentation of government ex
= penditures, show a need of an investi
, cation of every part of the government
q The Democrats in Congress demande,
$ it. The Republican majority rofuse,
e the demand. The people can dete-m
0 by their vote in November whethe
= they wish an honest and thorough in
= vestigation. A Democratic congress
and Executive will assure it.
ARMY AND NAVY.
e We are justly proud of the officer
: and men Of our Army and Navy
: Both, however, have suffered from tn
: persistent injection of personal an
political influence. Promotions and ap
t pointments have been frequently bas
= ed on favortism instead of meri
e Trials and court-martials have been sc
: aside under circumstances indicatin
C political interference. These and 9th
e er abuses should be corrected.
d PENSIONS FOR OUR SOLDIER
! AND SAILORS.
The National Democracy favors Lib
eral pensions to the surviving soldier
e and their dependents, on the groun
d that they deserve liberal treatmen
: 1t pledges by its platform adequat
i legislation to that end. But it denie
= the right of the Executive to usur
: the power of Congress to legislate o
/ that subject. Such usurpation was al
d tempted by Pension Order No. IS, an
5. effect has been given to it by Cons
It gress that dared not recent the usul
d patton. 1t is said that this order wa
= made in the performance Of a duty in
d posed upon the President by act {
It Congress" but the provision maxim
, the imposition is not pointed out. Tt
,f act to which the order refers, which
= the one relating to pensions to Civ
t. War veterans, does not authorize pei
st sions on the ground Of age 1t doc
l. grant pensions to those suffering frol
e any mental of physical disability, {
l. disabilities, of a permanent chara'
J. ter, not the result Of their own viciol
,e habits, which so incapacitates the
1f from the performance of manual labt
y as to render them unable to earn
t. sunport - This snepifed reuIIiremey
of incapacity is in effect set aside b
IS Order No. rs as to all persons over 81,
re ty-two
I'd The war closed nearly forty yea
is ago. In the meantime many of OF
IN soldiers and sailors long survived Il
s, age of sixtyttwo, and passed ava
lg without receiving any pension Skill
er full pension attorneys hunting throus
Ii the statute failed to find there pr'