El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-25
REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES


The Dingley act, amended to provide
sufficient revenue for the war, has &C
we'll performed its work that it hal
In of sum S4O,0OO.OOO. Sc
revenues, and so great i.
the public confidence in the integrity
of its oblig stions that it's newly funded
2 per cent bonds sell at premium
The country is now justified in expect.
ing, and 1t will be the policy of the
republ party to bring about . re.
duction OF the war taxss.
NICARAGUA CANAL
We favor the construction, owner.
ship, control, and protection of an
isthmian canal by the government OF
the United States.
New markets are necessary for the
increasing surplus OF our farm pro.
ducts. Every effort should be made
to open and obtain new markets, es-
pecially in the orient, and the ad min
istration ts warmly to be commended
for it's successful effort to commit all
policy OF the open door in China.
NEW EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
In the Interest OF our expanding COM
meroe, we recommend that congress
create q department of commerce and
industries, in the charge of q secretary,
with a seat in the cabinet.
The United Stat . nsular system
should be reorganized under the cup
ervision of this new department., un-
der such q basis of appointment aud
tenure as will render it still more serv-
iceable to the nation g incressing trade.
PROTECTION OF CITIZENS
The American government must
protect the person and property of
every citizen wherever he is wrongful
II violated or placed in peril.
WORK OF WOMEN.
We congratulate the women of
America upon their splendid record OF
public service in the Volunteer Aid as
ISOLATION and as nurses in camp and
hospital during the recent campaigns
OF our armies In the eastern and west
ern Indies, and We appreciate their
faithful &C operation In all works of
education and industry.
SAMOA
President Mckinley has conducted
the foreign affairs Of the United
States with distinguished credit to the
American people. In releasing US from
the vexatious condition of q European
alliance for the government of Samoa,
his course Is especially to be COM
mended. By securing to our undivided
control the most important island Of
the Samoan group and the best harbor
in the Southern Pacific, every Ameri-
can interest has been safeguarded.
HAWAII
We approve the annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
THE BoERS AND THE MONROE DOC
TRINE.
We commend the part taken by our
government in the peace conference
at The Hague. We assert our stead
fast adherence to the policy announced
IN the Monroe doctrine. The provi-
sions of The Hague conven ton were
wisely regarded when Presinent Nc
Kinley rendered bic friendly Offices in
the interest of peace between Great
Britain and the South African Repub-
lilo.
While the American government
must continue the olicy prescribed by
Washington, affirmed by every sue
ceedinR president, and imposed upon
US by The Hague treaty, of non-intsr-
vention in European controversies, the
people earnestly hope that
q way may soon be found, honorable
alike to both contending parties, to ter
the strife between them.
THE PHILIPPINES AND CUBA.
In accepting, by the treaty OF Paris,
the just responsibility Of our Victories
Ia the Spanish war, the PRECEDENT and
the senate won the undou bted approval
of the American people. No other
ho0 ~
Spain's sovereignty throughout the
Western Indies and in the Philippine
Islands.
That course created our responsible
ty before the world, and with the unor-
gained population whom our interven-
ton had freed from Spain to provide
for the maintenance of law and order,
and for the establishmentsO of good gov
eminent, and for the performance of
obligations.
Our authority could not be less than
Dur responsibility, and wherever sover-
sign rights were extended It became
5he high duty OF the government to
N sintain its authority, to put down
armed tnsurrdction and to confer the
blessings OF liberty and civilization
upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure Of self govern
nsnt consistent with their welfare and
Dur duties shall be secured to them by
aw.
To Cuba independence and sslf-gov-
srnment were assured In the same
voice by which war was declared, and
to the letter this pledge shall be per-
formed.
AN HONORABLE RECORD
The republican party, upon its his
tory and upon this declaration OF It's
principles and policies, confidently
nvokes the considerate and approving
Judgment of the American people.
A Good Cough Medicine.