, 1900-09-24

h Dingley Act and the Revenues.
The Dingley act, amended to pro-
vide sufficient for the con
duct of the war, has so well performed
its work that it has beer possible to
reduce the war debt in the sum of
$40, OOO, 900. So ample are the gov
ernment's revenues and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of
it's obligations that it's n~ewly-funded
two per cent. bonds sell at a premium.
The country is now justified in ex-
~pectingand it will be the policy of the
republican party to bring about a re-
duction of the war taxes
Isthmian Canal.
We favor the construction, owner
ship, control and protection of an 18th
milan canal by the government of the
United States. New markets are nee
essary for the increasing surplus of
our farm products. Every effort
new markets. especially in the Orient,
and the administration is warmly to be
commended for it's successful effort
to commit all trading and colonizing
nations to the policy of the open door
in China.
A Department of Commerce.
In the interest of our expanding com
merce we recommend that congress
create a department of commerce
and industries in charge of a secretary
with a seat in the cabinet. The Unit
ed States consular system should be
recognized under the supervision of
this new department upon such a basis
OF appointment and tenure as will rem
der it still more ~serviveable to the
nations increasing trade.
The American government must pro-
tect the person and property of every
citizen wherever they are wrongfully
violated or placed in peril.
The Women of America.
We congratulate the women of
America upon their splendid record of
public service in the volunteer aid as
ISOLATION and as nurses in camp and
hospital during the recent campaigns
of our armies in the Eastern and
Western Indies, and we appreciate
their faithful cooperation in all works
%ot education and industry.
Our Foreign Policy.
President Mckinley has conducted
the foreign affairs of the United States
with distinguished credit to the Amer
lean people. In releasing us from the
vexatious conditions of a European al
lance for the government of Samoa,
his course is especially to be commend
ed. By securing to our undivided con
troll the most important island of the
Samoan group and the best harbor in
the Southern Pacific, every American
interest has been sa~fe-guarded.
Hawaii.
We approve the annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
The War in South Africa.
We commend the part taken by our
at ten Hague. We assert our stead
fast adherence to the policy
ed in the Monroe Doctrine. The pro.
visions 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 Repub.
lie. While the American government
must continue the policy prescribed by
Washington, affirmed by every sue
ceeding president and imposed upon
us by the Hague treaty of non.inter-
~vention in european controversies, tcn
American people earnestly hope that
a way may soon be found, honorable
alike to both %contending parties, to
terminate the strife between them.
), The Philippines Porto Rico.
In accepting by the treaty of Paris
the Just responsibility OF our victories
in the Spanish war, the president and
the senate won the %undoubted approx
al Of the American people, NJ other
course was possible than to destroy
SPANS sovereignty throughout the
Western Indies and in the Philippine
Islands. That course created our re-
sponsibility before the world and with
the unorganized population whom our
Intervention had freed from Spain, to
provide for the maintenance of law
and order, and for the establishment
of good government and for the per-
Torrance Of international obligations.
Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever SOW
ereign rights were extended it became
the high duty of the government to
maintain its authority, to put down
armed insurrection and tt confer the
blessings of liberty and civilization up
on all the rescued peoples. The larg-
est measure of self-government con
sistent with their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law.
Cuba.
To Cuba independence and self-gov-
eminent were issued in the same voice
by which war was declared and to the
letter this pledge shall be performed.
The republican party upon its his
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