Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-18

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should be given wherever practicable with
respect to employment In the public service
to soldiers and sailors and to their widows
and orphans.
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We commend the policy Of the republican
party in maintaining the efficiency of the
civil service. The administration has act
ed wisely In Its effort to secure for public
service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
ness has been determined BY training n
experience. We believe that employment
in the public service in these territories
should be confined us far as practicable to
1t was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution to prevent
discrimination on account of race or color
in regulating the elective franchise. De-
vices Of state governments, whether stat
ntory or constitutional enactment to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are reyo-
lutionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movement looking to a perma-
nent improvement of the roads and high
ways of the country meet with our cordial
approval and we recommend this subject to
the earnest consideration Of the people and
the legislatures of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever its extension may
be justified.
ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance Of the constant poll
icy Of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we recon-
mend adequate national legislation to re-
clnim the arid lands. of the United States,
reserving control Of the distribution of wa
ter for irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
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New Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma.
"A REDUCTION OF WAR TAKES.
The Dingley act amended to provide Suf-
fcient revenue for the conduct Of the war
has so well performed Its work that it has
the sum of $4O,0O0.O o0. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence In the Integrity of its OBJ
legations hat its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. The country is
now justified in expecting and it will be
the policy of the republican party to bring
about a reduction of the war taxes.
TRADE EXPANSIONS
$500 - -, -.
we fayor the construction, ownership,
control and protection Of an isthnAan canal
by the government of the United States.
New markets are necessary for the in
~creasing surplus of our farm products.
Every effort should be made to open and
ent, and the administration is warmly to
be commended for its successful effort to
commit all trading and colonizing nations
through the policy of the open door In
China, In interest of our expanding COM
merce. we recommend that congress create.
Il department of commerce and industries
in the charge Of a secretry with a seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
be reorganized under the, supervision of
this new department upon such a basis of
appointment and tenure as will render it
still more serriceable to the nations in
creasing trade.
1Th American government must protect
the person and property OF every. citizen
wherever they are ~wrongfully violated or
placed in peril.
We Econgratulate the women of America
upon their splendid record Of public service
Ill the volunteer aid association and the
nurses in camp and hospital during the re-
cent campaigns Of our armies inzthe east.
ern and western Indies, and we appreciate
their faithful cooperation in all works OF
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs of the United States with
distinguished credit ito 1.-The American peo-
pie. In releasing the. United States from
the grieV0us conditions of a European al
lance for FSthe government of Samoa his
course Is especially to be commended. BY
his securing to our undivided control the
most Important island Of the Samoan group
and the best. harbor In the southern Pacific,
every American interest has been safe
guarded,
We approve the annexation Of the Ha-t
waiian islands to The United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
in the neace conferences nj tha
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine.
The provisions Of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
Kinley rendered his friendly offices In the
interest of peace between Graat britain
and the South African renl,blics While tho
American. government must continue the
policy prescribed by washington. afIirmed}
bySevery succeeding president and Imposed,
upon us by. the Hague treaty2of non-inter-
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