Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-02

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should be given wherever practicable with
respect5to employment in the public service
to soldiers n 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 administrator has act
ed wisely in its effort to secure for public
service In Guba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippine islands only those whose fit
ness has been determined by training and
experience. We believe that employment
In the public service in these territories
should be confined as far as practicable to
their inhabitants.
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
the purpose of this amendment, are revo-
lutionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking to a perna-
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.
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ley Of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we srecom-
mend adequate national legislation to re-
claim the arid lands Of the United States,
reserving control of the distribution of wa
ter for irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
We favor home rule for and the early
admission TO statehood of the territories Of
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES.
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ficient revenue for the conduct Of the war
has so well performed its work that 1t has
been possible to reduce the war debt In
the sum of $40, 10000 So ample are the
public confidence in the integrity of its oh
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell alta premium. The country is
now justified in expecting and it will be
about production Of the war axes
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of an isthmfan canal
" 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
obtain new markets, especially in the orr
ent, and the administration Is warmly to
he commended for it's successful effort to
eomnli 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
a department Of and industries
in the charge OF a s~ecretry 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 serviceable to the nations in
creasing trade.
The American government mast protect
the person and property OF every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
placed In peril.
We congratulate the women Of America
upon their splendid record of public service
in the volunteer aid association and the
nurses in@camp and hospital during the re-
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-
pie. In releasing the United States from
the grleyous conditions of a European al
a for the government of Samoa his
course lis especially to be commended. BY
his securing to our undivided control the
most important island of the Samoan grollD
and the best harbor In the southern Pacific.
every American Interest has been safe
guarded.
We approve the annexation of the Ha-
waiian island to the United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
nme In8gthe peace conference at the
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to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
gtrine.
The provisions Of the Hague convention
We're wisely regarded when President Nc
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 imposed
upon us by the 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.
In accepting by the treaty Of Paris the
just responsibility of our victories In the
Spanish war, the president and the senata
won the undoubted approval Of the Ameri-
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy Spain'sa sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and in the
Philippine islands.
That course created our Responsibilities
before the world, and with the u~norganized
population whom our intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the main-
fenance of law and order, and for the es-
Enlistment Of good government and for
the performance Of international ofliga-
tons. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility mi wherever sovereign
rights We're extended 1T became the high
duty of the government to- maintain its au-
thority, to put down armed insurrection
and to confer the blessings OF liberty and
clylllzaIiOnS upon all the rescued peoples,
The largest measure of self-goyeFnmen
consistent with their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. II
Cuba Independence and self-goYernment
were assured in the same voice by which
war was declared. and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
republican party, upon its history
and upon this declaration of It's principles
and policies confidently invokes the CON
siderate and approving Judgment Of the
American people.
Editorial Comment on the Pioneer
Limited.
Nothing richer has ever been pro-
duced by any railroads.. Paul Pho
neer Press.
ITS a world beater.'-St. Paul
Globe.
THE best thing the railroad world
can produce.'-St. Paul Dispatch.
Prominent and discriminating peo-
pie marvel at the creation OF elegance
and comfort wrought by modern car