Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-20

uIu OCpuanS ASS&4G
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE
We commend the policy of the republican
party i'll maintaining the efficiency Of the
civil service. The administration has act
ed wisely in its effort to secure for public
service In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
ness has been determined by training and
experience. We believe that employment
N the public service in these territories
should be confined as far as practicable to
their inhabitants.
1t was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitutions to prevent
discrimination on account of race or color
in regulating the elective franchise. De
vices of state governments, whether stat
utory or constitutional enactment, to- avoid
the purpose Of this amendment, are 1revo-
lutionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking to a perma-
nent Improvement of the roads and high
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
ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance of the constant pol
icy of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we recon-
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.
A REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES.
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
fcient revenue for the conduct of the war
has so well performed it's work that it has
been possible to reduce the war debt In
the sum of S40,000,0OG. 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 cent
bonds. sell alta premium. The country is
the policy Of the republican party to bring
about a reduction Of the war 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 in
creasing surplus of our farm products.
Every effort should be made to open and
ent, and the administration is warmly to
be commended for its successful effort to
commit 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 commerce and industries
in the charge of a secretry with a seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
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this new department upon such a basis of
appointment and tenure as will render 1t
still more serriceable to the nations in
creaSing trade.
The American government mnsr protect
the person and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfuliy 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-
cent campaigns Of our armies in the east
ern and western Indies, and we appreciate
their faithful cooperation in all wofksS 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 grievous conditions of a European al
lance for the government of Samoa his
course is especially to be commended. BY
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.
We approve the annexation of the Ha-
waiian Islands to United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
eminent in the peace conference at the
to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine. felss$
TIL provisions of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
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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.
yention in European controversies, the
American people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honorably alike to 5both
contendlng 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 an the senate
won the undoubted approval OF the Ameri-
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy spain's soYereignty
throughout the western indies and In the
That course created our RESPONSIBILITIES
before the world, and with the u~norganfzed
population whom our intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the main
tenanee Of law and order, and for the es.
ENLISTMENT OF good government and fol
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 fnsurrectior
and to confer the blessings OF liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-goverhmen
consistent with their welfare and our din.
ties shall be secured to them by law. IL
Cuba Independence and self-goYernmen
tEVNAS ~ LIZ E1NlG fUlSG HWllCI
war was declared, and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
The republican party, upon Its history
and upon this declaration OF It's principles
and policies confidently inyokes the con
siderafe and approving Judgment Of the
American people.
Editorial Comment on the Pioneer
Limited.
Nothing richer has ever been pro,
duced by any Railroads.&c.. Paul Pic,
neer Press.
ITS a world beater..-St. Pau
Globe.
The best thing the railroad worlt
can produce st. Paul Dispatch.
Prominent and discriminating PEG
pie marvel at the creation OF eIeganc.
and comfort wrought by modern ca,
builders."-Minneapolis Tribune.
sThe Pioneer Limited stands toda,
perfect in construction. gorgeous III
finish and the acme Of luxury and com.
fort'-Minneapolis Journal.
tAThe closest inspection bewilders
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