Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

markets especially in the Orient and
the administration is warmly to be
commended for it's successful effort to
commit all trading and colonizing
nations to the policy of the open door
in China. In the interest of our ex-
banding commerce, we recommend
that congress create department. of
commerce and industries in the charge
of a secretary with seat in the cab
met. The United States. consular sys-
tenn should be reorganized under the
supervision Of this new department
upon such basis of appointment and
tenure as will render ii still more SER
viceable to the nations increasing
trade. The American government
must protect the person and
property OF every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully
violated or placed in peril.
Women Congratulated.
We congratulate the women of
America upon their splendid record of
public service in the volunteer aid as
ISOLATION and as nurses in camps and
hospitals during the recent campaign
of our armies in the eastern and wes-
tern Indies, and we appreciate their
faithful cooperation in all works OF
education and industry.
Foreign Complications Avoided.
President Mckinley has conducted
the foreign affairs of the United States
with distinguished credit to the Amer
lean people. In releasing us from the
yexatious conditions of European al
lance Tor the government of Samoa,
his course is especially to be commend.
ed. By securing to our undivided con-
troll 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
Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
L We commend the part taken 'by
our government in the peace confer
ence at the Hague.
We assert our steadfast adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe
doctrine. The provisions of the Hague
convention were wisely regarded when
President Mckinley rendered his
friendly Office 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 inn
posed upon us by the Hague treaty,
OF non-intervention in European con-
troversies, the American people ear
nestly hope that a way may soon be
found, honorable alike to both 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 undoubted approval
of the American people. No other
course was possible than to destroy
Spain's sovereignty thruout the West
ern Indies and in the Philippine Is
lands.
That course created our responsibility
before the world, and with the unor-
ganized population whom our inter-
vention had freed from Spain, to pro-
vide for the maintenance of law and
order and for the establishment Of
good government and for the perform
ance of international obligations.
| Authority IL Necessary.
Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever SOW
| ereign 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 civilization up
on all the rescued peoples. The larg-
est measure of enlightenment consist
ent with their welfare and our duties
shall be secured to them by law. To
Cuba, independence and self-govern-
ment were assured and in the same
voice by which the war was declared
and to the letter this pledge shall be
performed.
The republican party upon its
history and upon this declara-
ton Of its principles and policies con-
fdently invokes the considerate and
| approving judgment of the American
people.