Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-21

feetIve system Of labor insurance.
Our present dependence upon foreign ship
pine for ninetenths Of our foreign carrying is
great loss to industry Of this country. 1t is
also serious danger to our trade, for its sud-
den withdrawal in event Of European war
would seriously cripple our expanding foreign
commerce. The national defense and naval
efficiency Of this country, moreover. supply a
compelling reason for legislation which viii
enable Us to recover our former place among
the trade-carrying fleets Of the world
The nation owes debt Of profound graft
tude to the soldiers and sailors who have
fought its battles, and 1t Il the government
duty to provide for the survivors and for the
widows and orphans Of tA0se who have fallen
in the countryis wars. The pension laws,
founded in this just sentiment, should be lib
eral and should be literally administered and
preferences should be given wherever practi-
cable with respect to employment in the pub
lie service to soldiers and sailors and to their
widows and orphans
We commend the policy Of the Republican
party in maintaining the efficiency of the civil
service. The administration has acted wisely
in its effort TO secure for public service in
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine
islands, only those whose fitness has been de
termined by training and experience. We be
heye that employment in the public service IN
these territories should be confined as far as
practicable to their inhabitants.
II Was tlc piull purpose O. the D1tRtHIH
amendment to the constitution to prevent dis
elimination on account Of race or color in reg.
lating the elective franchise Devices Of state
governments whether by statutory or eensti.
tntional enactment to avoid the purpose Of this
amendment, are revolutionary and should be
condemned.
Public movements looking to permanent
improvement of the reads and highways of the
country meet with our cordial approval, and
we recommend this subject to the earnest con.
sideration of the people and Of the legislatures
Of the several states.
We favor the extension Of the rural free de
livery service wherever the extension may be
justified
In further pursuance of the constant
policy of the Republican party to provide
free homes on the public domain we rec.
0hlmend adequate national legislation to
reclaim the arid lands of the United
States, reserving control of the distribu
ton Of water for irrigation to the respee-
tive 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 provide
sufficient revenue for the conduct of the
war, has SO well performed its work that
1t is possible to reduce the war debt ia the
sum OF $4,000, 600. So ample are the gov
eminent : revenues and SO great is the
public confidence in the integrity of its
obligations that its newly-funded 2 per
cent bonds sell at premium. The eoun-
try is now justified in expecting and it
viii be the policy Of the Republican party
to bring about, reduction of the war
tax.
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 successful effort
to commit all trading and colonizing ma
tions to the policy of the aopen door" in
China. In the interest of our expanding
commerce we recommend that congress
create a department of commerce and in
dustries IL charge of secretary with a
seat in the cabinet The United STATES
consular system should be reorganized
under the supervision of this new depart
ment upon such basis of appointment
and tenure rs will render it still more
seryieeable to the nations increasing
trade.
The American government must pro-
tect the person and property of every citi-
zen wherever they arc wrongfully violated
or placed in peril.
We congratulate the women of America
upon their splendid record of public sery-
ice in the volunteer aid ASSOCIATION and as
nurses in camp and hospital during
the recent campaign of our armies
in the Eastern and Western Indies and
We appreciate their faithful cooperation in
al works of education and industry.
President Mckinley has conducted the for
egn affairs of the United States with distin-
guished credit to the American people, In re-
leasing us from the vexatous conditions of a
European alliance for the government of Sa-
his jc as11ppiallx to no
BY 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 safeguarded
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
Hague conference We're wisely regarded
when President Mckinley rendered his
friendly offices in the interest of peace
between Great Britain and the South At
rican republics. 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-in-
tervention in European controversies, the
American people earnestly hope that a
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 senate won the I'M
doubted approval Of the American people. No
other course was possible than to destroy
SPANS sovereignty throughout the Western
Indies and in the Philippine islands. That
course created our responsibility before the
world and, with the unorganized population
whom our Intervention had freed from Spain,
10 provide for the maintenance of law and
order, and for the establishment of good gov
eminent and for the performance of nterna-
tional Obligations. Our authority could not
be less than our responsibility, and wherever
sovereign rights were extended it became the
high duty of the government to maintain its
authority, to put down armed insurrection
and to confer the blessings of liberty and civi-
haatlon upon ~ tho rescued people
The largest measure Of government
consistent with their welfare and our
duties shall be secured to them by law
Fo Cuba independence ana self govern
msnt were assured in the same voice bv
which war was declared and to the letter
this Ledge shall be performed
The republican party upon its history
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