Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-29

open and obtain new markets. especially
In the Orient, and the Administration
is warmly to be commended for it's sue!
cessful effort to commit all trading and
colonizing nations to the policy of the
open door in China.
In the interest of our expanding
commerce, we recommend that Com
gress create a Department of Com
merce and Industries in the charge of
a Secretary with seat in the. Cabinet.
The United States Consular system
should be reorganized under the super.
vision of this new department, upon
such basis of appointment md tenure
as will render it still more serviceable
to the Nation S increasing trade.
The American Government must
protect the person and property of
every citizen, wherever they are wrong
fully violated or placed In peril
We congratulate the women of Amer
ica upon their splendid record of pub.
lie service in the volunteer aid assotia-
tion and as nurses in camp and hospital
during the recent campaigns of our
armies in the Eastern and Western In.
dies, 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 Amer.
lcan people.
! In releasing us from the vexatious
European alliance for the government
OF Samoa, his course is especially to be
commended. By securing to our un.
divided 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 cahnexation of the
| Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
We recommend the part taken by our
Government in the peace conference at
/ The Hague We assert our ateaIfa,t
adherence to the policy announced in
the Monroe Doctrine. The provisions
of The Hague conference were wisely
regarded when President Mckinley
rendered his friendly offices in the in.
terest of peace between Great Britain
and the South African Republics
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 noninter-
ventloD in European controversies. the
American people earnestly hope that
way may soon be found, honorable
alike to both cOntending parties, to
terminate the strife between them.
In accepting, by the treaty of Paris,
the responsibility of our victories in
the Spanish War, the President and
Senate won the undoubted approval of
the American people. No other course
was possible than to destroy Spain's
sovereignty throughout the West In.
dies and in the Philippine Islands.
That caurse created our responsibility
before the world the uuorganized popu-
lation whom our intervention had freed
from Spain. to provide for the main
tenance of law and order and for the
| establishment of good government and
performance of international obliga-
tions. Our authority could not be less
than our responsibility, and wherever
sovereign rights we're extended it be-
came the high duty of the Government
to maintain it's authority to put down
armed insurrection and to confer the
blessings of liberty and civilization on
all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self govern
ment consistent with their welfare and
our duties shall be secured to them by
law. To Cuba, Independence and self
oyernment we're assured in the same
voice by which war was declared, and
TO the letter this pledge shall be per.
formed.
The Republican party, upon its his
tory and upon this declaration OF it's
principles and policies, confidently in
vokes the considerate and approving
judgment of the American people.