Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-28

ElllQCALsE H0OuAu% NE AkuCEAAs u d1N HMVulAe UHGt
literally administered and preference
should be given wherever practicable with
respect to employment In the public service
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 inits effort to .secure for public
service g IN Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawai- a at'
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
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 a perna-
nent Improvement of the roads and high.
ways of the country meet with our cordial
approval and we recommend this subject to
the earnest consideration of the people and
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
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 territoriesa
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. a
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
ficient revenue for the conduct of the war
has so we'll performed Its work that 1t has
been possible to reduce the war debt In
the sum of $40, 1000, 600. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of Its OBJ
legations that it's 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 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
obtain new markets, especially in the orl-
ent, and the administration is warmly to;
be commended for it's 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 tina congress create
q department of and industries
the cabinet. The consular system should
| be reorganized under the supervision Of
this new department upon such a basis of
appointment and tenure as will render it
still more Serviceable to the nations In
creasing trade.
The American government mnst protect
the: person and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
1 " n a - n N ~
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 corporation In ali works Of
education and industry.
foreign affairs of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-
pie. In releasing the United States from
the g%rievous conditions of a European all
lance fol. 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 the United States.
ernment in the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine.
The provisions of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
kinley rendered his friendly offices In the
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 both:
~contending parties, to terminate the strife
between them.
In accepting by the treaty OF Paris the
just responsibility of cur victories in the
Spanish war, the president and the senate
won the undolbted approval of the Ameri-
than to destroy spain's sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and In the
Philippine islands.
That course created our responsibility
before the world. and with the u~norganized
population whom our Intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the main
tenance Of law and order, and for the es-
t thenI performs H1 s0 &c i EaxsTnneps ao oSl,f for
lions. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became Nthe high
duty Of the government to maintain its au-
tkority, to put down armed insurrection
and to confer the blessings Of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
LIE idFSeSt measure OF Sef-gOyernment
consistent with their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. To
Cuba Independence and self-goyernment
were assured In the same voice by which
war was declared. and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
The republican party, upon its history
and upon this declaration Of its principles
and policies confidently inv0kes the con-
siderate and approving Judgment OF thu,
American people.
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