Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-24

tilnent, should be liberal. and should be
literally administered and preference
should ee given wherever ppaetis;aole wit WITH
to soldiers and 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 administration has act
ed wisely in it's effort to secure for public
service in Cuba, 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.
1t was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
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
utory or constitutional enactment, to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are revo-
lutionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking to n perma-
nent Improvement of the roads and high
ways of the country meet with our cordial
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.
In further pursuance of the constant poll
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.
reserying 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-
fieient revenue for the conduct of the war
has so well performed its work that it has
been possible to reduce the war debt In
the sum OF $4,000, 0O0. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. The country is
now justified in expecting and it will be
the policy of the republican party to bring
about 4 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
obtain new markets, especially in the ORR
ent, and the administration is warmly to
1 JIG SOltlACAOCu =AOIE TX SUCCESSFUL elIOICEI 10
commit all trading and eolonizing 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 secretry with a seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
he reorganized under the supervision of
this new department upon such a basis of
appointment and tenure as will render it
still more serSiceable to the nations in
e%reasing 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
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 corporation in all works Of
Education and industry.
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs of the United States with
d~istingnisned credit to the American peo-
the grieyous conditions of a European all
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 proup
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 gov
ernment IN the peace conference at the
to the policy announced In the Monroe doc
trine.
The provisions of the Hague convention
were 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 Haguetreaty of non-fnter-
Yention In European controversies, the
may soon be found. honorably alike to both
eontending parties, to terminate the strife
between them. 80
in II aseeptin1g by the treaty Of Paris the
Spanish war, the president and the senate
won the undoubted approval OF the Ameri-
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy Spafn's soyerefgnty
throughout the western Indies and in the
Philippine islands. &c.,
Ihat course created our responsibility
DeIore the world. and with the unorganized
freed from Spain, to provide for the main-
tenance OF law and order, and for the es-
tholsnment q good government and for
the performance OF International obiiga-
lions. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sOyeraign
rights We're extended 1t became the higb
ausy OF the government to maintain its au-
i - bESS .PAS &luSuTIGCIlOn
and to confer the blessings of liberty and
ciyiiiAation upon all the rescued peoples.
q largest measure of seff-goyeFhment
consistent with their welfare and our du-
res shall be secured to them by law. TO
Cuba independence and seIf-government
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
ana upon this declaration Of Its PRINCIPLES
ana poiicieis confidently inyokes the con
siderate and approving Judgment Of the
Editorial Comment on the Pioneer
Limited.
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