The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-21

! restrict business, to create monopolies
| to limit production or to control prices
ana taVor such legislation as will ef-
| tectually restrain and prevent all such
| abuses. protect and promote competition
! and secure the rights of producers, labor
| erS and all who are engaged i'm Inductrv
| and commerce.
We renew our faith in the policy of pro-
| lection to American labor. In that policy
our industries have been esta blished di-
! VerSifed and maintained BY protecting
! the home market the COMPETITION has
Deen stimulated and production cheapen-
ed opportunity to the inventive genius
OF our people has been secured. and wages
III every department of labor maintained
at hlgh rates, higher now than ever be-
tore. always Distinguishing our working
people In their better conditions of life
from tnOSe or any competing country En-
JoylnS the blessings of American common
SchoolS, secure in the right of self-goy-
eminent, and protected in the occupancy
OF their own markets, their constantly in
creas1ng knowledge and skill have enabled
tnem hnaIIy TO enter the markets of the
world. We favor the associated policy of
reciprocity. 50 directed as to open our
markets on favorable terms for what we
DO not ourselves produce in return for
| free foreign markets.
In the further interest Of American
.I, WorkmIen, we favor a more effective re-
Strlctlon of the imm grafton of cheap la
Dor from foreign lands, the extension of
opportunities of education for working
chhiiii99ren, the raising OF the age limit for
as against contract convict labor, and an
effective system of labor insurance.
Our present dependency upon foreign
Snlpping Tor nlne-tenths of our foreign
carrying Is great loss to the industry
OF this country. 1t is a serious danger to
our trade, for its sudden withdra wal in
the event of European war would serious
~ crlppie our expanding foreign com
merce. The national defenses and the
naval efficiency of this country, more
over supply a Compelling reason Tor legi5
ldttOn which will ne to
our former place among the trade-carry-
ing fleets Of the world
1he nation owes a debt Of profound
gratitude to the soldiers and sailors v ho
nave fought its battles, and 1t is the gov
efnment duty to provide for the SurViv-
ors and for the widows and orphans of
! wars. The pension laws founded in this
Just sentiment should be liberal and
should be 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.
We commend the policy of the Repuo-
Hcan party in maintaining the efficiency
OF the civil service. The administration
has acted wisely in its effort to secure
LOT public service in Cuba, Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippine Islands only
those whose fitness 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
revolutionary, and should be condemned
Public movements looking to a perma-
nent Improvement of the roads and high
ways OF the country meet with our cor
dial approval and we recommend this
subject to 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 ex-
tension may be justified.
In further pursuance of the constant
policy OF the Republican party to provide
free homes on the public domain, we rec
ommend adequate national legislation to
reclaim the arid lands of the United
States, reserving control of the distribu-
! ton of water for irrigation to the re-
sDectiVe 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
it has been possible to reduce the war