The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-06-25

islands we should secure the proper
and much needed naval station in
the West Indies.
Massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and
just indignation Of the American
people, and we believe the united
States should exercise all the in,
fluence it can properly exert to
bring these atrocities to an end.
In Turkey, American residents
have been exposed to the gravcst
dangers and American property
destroyed. There and everywhere
American citizens and American
property must be absolutely pro-
tected at all hazards and at any
cost.
We reasscrt the Monroe doctrine
in It's fullest extent and we reaff;rm
the right of the united States to
give the doctrine effect by respond
ing to the appeals of any American
state of friendly intervention in
case of European encroachment.
We have not interfered and shall
not interfere with the existing
possessions of any European power
in this hemisphere, but these pos
sessions must not, on any pretext,
be extended. We hopefully look
forward to the eventual withdrawal
of European powers from this
hemisphere and to the ultimate
union OF all English speaking parts
of the continent by the free con-
sent of it's Inhabitants.
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 domina-
tion. We watch with deep and
abiding interest the heroic battles
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 protect the
property or lives of resident Amer
lean citizens or to comply with its
treaty obligations. we believe the
government of the united States
should actively use It's, influence
and good offices to restore peace
and give independence to the
island.
The peace and security of the
republic and the N maintenance of its
rightful influence among the ma
tions of the earth, demand naval
power commensurate with its
position and responsibility. We,
therefore, favor the continued en-
largement of the navy and a CON-
plete system Of harbor and sea,
coast defenses.
For the protection of the quality
of our American citizenship and oi
the wages of our workingmen
against fatal competition of low
priced labor, we demand that the
immigration laws be thoroughly
enforced and so extended as tc
exclude from entrance to the
united States those who can neither
read nor write.
The civil service law was placed
on the statute books by the repub
lican party, which has always sus
tanned it, and we renew our re
peated declarations that it shall b.
: thoroughly and honestly enforced
and extended wherever practicable
, We demand that every citizen o
f the united States shall be allowe'
f to cast free and unrestrfcte
ballot, and that each ballot shal
5 be counted and returned as cast.
r We proclaim our unqualified con
: demnation of the unciviliZed an
/, barbarous practice well known a
, lynching or the killing of huma
Y beings, suspected or charged wit
f CRIME, without process of law.
0 We favor the creation of
S national board of arbitration t.
settle and adjust differences whic
e may arise between employers an
employed engaged in interstat
d commerce.
/, We believe in the immediat
return to the free homestead polio