Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-21

mated The Roosevelt Boom
Sweeps Everything Before
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Philadelphia, June 2Q.-The platform
continues as follows:
Our present dependence on foreign
shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign
carrying is a great loss to the industry
of this country. 1t is also a serious dan
ger to our trade, for it's sudden with
drawal in the event of European war
would seriously cripple our extending
foreign commerce. The national de-
fense and the naval efficiency of this
country moreover supply the compell-
ing reason for legislation which will en-
able us to recover our former place
among the trade-carrying fleets of the
world.
The nation owes a debt of profound
gratitude to the soldiers and sailors
who fought it's battles, and it Is the
governments duty to provide for the
survivors and for the widows and the
orphans of those who have fallen in the
country's wars The pension laws
founded on this just sentiment should
be liberal, and should be literally ad
ministered, and preferences should be
given wherever practicable with respect
to employment in public service to SOL
diers and sailors and to their widows
and orphans. ........
We commend the policy of the Re-
publican party in maintaining the eff
cheney of the civil service. The adminis-
tration has acted wisely in it's efforts to
secure for the public service in Cuba,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine
islands only those whose fitness has
been determined by training and expe-
rience. We believe that the 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 f1f-
teenth amendment to the constitution
to prevent discrimination on account of
race or color in regulating the elective
franchise. Devices of state govern
ments, whether by statutory or consti-
tutional enactment to avoid the pur-
pose of this amendment are revolution
airy and should be condemned.
Public movements looking to the per-
manent improvement Of roads and
highways of the country meet with our
cordial approval, and we recommend
this subject to the earnest considera-
tion of the people and the legislatures
of the several states.
In the interest of our expanding COM
merce we recommend that congress
4. create a department of commerce and
Industries in charge Of secretary, with
seat in the cabinet. The United States
consular system should be reorganlzed
under the supervision of this new de-
partment upon such basis of appoint
ment and tenure as will render it still
more serviceable to the nations in
creasing trade.
We favor the extension of the rural
free delivery service wherever its ex-
tension may be justified.
In further pursuance of the constant
policy of the Republican party to pro-
vide free homes on the public domain,
we recommend adequate national legis-
lation to reclaim the arid lands of the
United States, reserving control Of the
distribution of water for irrigation to
the respective states and territories.
We favor home rule for and early ad-
mission 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 we'll performed its work
that it has been possible to reduce the
war debt in the sum of $4O,0 900, 900. So
ample are the governments revenues
and so great is public confidence in the
integrity of its obligations, that its
newly funded 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,
the reduction of war taxes.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of the isthmian
canal by the government Of the United
States. New markets are necessary for
the increasing surplus of our farm
to open and obtain new markets, espe-
cially in the Orient, and the adminis-
tration Is warmly to be commended for
its successful effort to commit all trad
ing and cofonizing nations to the policy
of the open door in China.
The American government must pro-
tect the person and the property Of ev-
cry citizen wherever they are wrongful
ly violated or placed in peril.
We congratulate the women of Amer
lea upon their splendid record of public
service in the volunteer aid association
and as nurses in camp and hospital
during the recent campaigns of our
armies in the eastern and the western
indies. and we'appreciate their faithful
cooperation In all the works of educa.
tion and industry.
President Mckinley has conducted
the foreign affairs Of the United States
with distinguished credit to the Amer.
lean people. In releasing us from the
vexatious European alliance for the
government of Samoa, his course is es.
pecially to be commended. BY securing
to our undivided control the most i'm.
portant island Of the Samoan grouI
and the best harbor of the southern
Pacific, every American interest ha.
been safeguarded.
We approve the annexation of tn,
Hawaiian islands to the United States