Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-24

The pension laws. founded In this lust SEN
should be liberal, and should DE
literally administered and preference
should be given wherever prae.1 nc sar Wien
to soldiers and sailors and to their WIDOWS
and orphans. 4&tA
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
4 we ommend the policy of the republican,
party in maintaining the efficiency Of the
civil service. The administration mas acl.
cd wisely in its effort to secure for puDiltR
service in Cuba, Porto Rico, ana$
the Philippine islands only those whose Mt
ness has been determined by trimming anu$
We believe that employment,
in the public service in these territories
should be confined as far as practicable 10
their inhabitants.
It 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 be:
vices Of state. governments, whether stat,
utory or constitutional enactment, to AVOID
the purpose of this amendment, are reNo-
lutionary and should be condemned.
t. GOOD ROADS. 49,
Public movements looking to a perma-
nent improvement Of the roads and high
ways Of the country meet with our cordlai
approval and we recommend this subject TO
the earnest consideration OF the people ana
the legislatures of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever its extension may
be justified. ~, f*t
ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance Of the constant pol
icy Of the republican party to provide Itee
homes on the public domain, we RECON-
mend adequate national legislation TO re-
claim the arid lands OF the United States'
rescrving control of the distribution OF wa
ter for irrigation to the respective sIa.es
and territories.
We favor home rule for and the early
admission to statehood of the territories OF
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. u
A REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES.
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
ticient revenue for the conduct OF the war
been possible to reduce the war debt in
the sum Of SAC, 900, 000. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity OF It's OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per gent
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 wal taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction. ownership,
control and protection Of an isthmian, canal
by the government of the United States.
New markets are necessary for the III
creasing surplus Of our farm products;
Every effort should be made to open ana
ent. and the administration is warmly TO
be commended for it's successful effort to
commit all trading and colonizing nations
through the policy OF tne open uoo oop ~
merce, we recommend that congress create
a department of and Industries
in the charge of Il secretly with a seat IN
the cabinet. The consular system should
hel reorganized under the supervision of
this new department upon such u basis OF
appointment and tenure as will render II
still more serriceable to the nations in
creasing trade. IS
The American government must protect
the ncrson and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
placed in peril.
upon their splendid record Of public service
in the volunteer aid association and the
nurses in camp and hospital during the re
cent campaigns of our armies III the east
ern and western Indies, and we appreciate
their faithful cooperation in all works of
education and industry.
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs Of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-
nle. In releasing the United States from
| the g~rieyeus conditions of a European al
lance for the government OF samoa MS
course is especially to be commended. ~
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. - r.
Waiian islands to the United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
rnment in the peace conference at tne
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine. 5
The provisions Of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
Kinley rendered his friendly offices In the
interest of peace between Great Britain
and the South African republic. While the
American government must continue the
policy prescribed by Washington, affirmed
by every succeeding president and imposeo
upon US blythe Hague treaty of non-inter-
vention In European controversies, the
American people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honOrably alike to both
contending parties, to terminate the STRIFE
between them. z o.. v g..
In accepting by the treaty Of Paris the
just responsibility Of cur victories in the
Spanish war, the president and the senate
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy Spain's sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and in the
Philippine Islands. &,.. ~
before the world, and with the u~norganized
population whom our intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the main
tenance Of law and order, and for the es'
the performance of International obliga-
lions. Our authority could not be less thar
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became the higt
duty of the government to maintain its au.
thority, to put down armed insurrectioI
mi to confer the blessings Of liberty. ane
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-goverhment
consistent with their welfare and our du.
ties shall be secured to them by aw. Tt
Cuba independence and s~elf-goyernmeni
were assured in the same voice by which
war was declared. and to the letter thi:
pledge shall be performed.
The republican party, upon It's histor!
and upon this declaration Of it's principles
and policies confidently inyokes the con
cidnrntn nnd nnnrnEinO- ind pmnnt of thf