Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-06-28

ton to reclaim the arid lands OF th9
United States. reserving control Of the
distribution OF water 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
The Dingley act, amended to prov1da
sufficient revenue for the conduct of the
war has so well performed its work
that 1t has been possible to reduce the
war, has so well performed its work
ample are the governments revenues
and so great is the public confidence in
the integrity of its obligation that ITS
newly funded two per cent bonds sell at
a premium. The country is now justified
in expecting, and it viii be the policy
OF the republican party to bring about a
reduction OF the war taxes.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of an isthmian ca
nal by the government of the United
States New markets are necessary for
the increasing surplus Of our farm prod
uctS. Every effort should be made to
open and obtain new markets, especially
in the orient. and the administration Is
warmly to be commended for its sue
cessful effort to commit all trading and
coIonizing nations to the policy of the
open door in China.
In the interest of our expanding com
merce, we recommend that congress Gre
ate. a department OF commerce and in
dustries in the charge of a secretary with
consular. system should be reorganized
der the supervision of this new depart
ment upon such a basis of appointments
and tenure as will render it still more
serviceable to the nations increasing
trade.
The American government must 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 nurses in camp and hospital dur
ing the recent campaign of our armies
in the eastern 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 us from the veXatious
conditions of a European alliance for
the government of Samoa, his course is
especially to be commended. BY securing
to. our undivided control the most i'm
portant 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-
waiian islands to the United States
We commend the part taken by our
government in the peace conference at
The Hague. We assert our steadfast adj
herence to the policy announced in the
Monroe doctrine. The provisions of The
when President Mckinley 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 pre-
scribed 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, honorable 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 sem
ate won the undoubted approval of the
American people. No other course was
possible than to destroy Spain'S SOW
and in the Philippine islands. That
course created our responsibility before
the world and with the unorganized pop
ulation whom our Intervention had freed
from Spain, to provide for the mainte-
nance of law and order, and for the es-
adjustment of good government and
for the performance of international ob1i-
cations. Our authority could not be less
than our responsibility, and wherever
sovereign rights were extended it became
the high duty of the government to main
tain its authority, to put, down armed in
Surrection and to confer the blessings
of liberty and civilization upon all the
rescued peoples. The largest measures
of self-government consistent with their
welfare and our duties snail be secured
to them by law. To Cuba Independence
and self-goVernment were assured in the
same voice by which was declared
and to the letter this pledge shall be
performed
The republican party upon it's history
and upon this declaration Of its prin-
ciples and policies confidently invokes the
consideration and approving Judgment
of the American people
Hanna Re-EIected Chairman.
Philadelphia, June 22-The nation
al committee has reelected NJ. A.
Hanna chairman of that committee.