Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-11

ARID LANDS,

In further pursuance OF the constant poll.
ley Of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we recon-
mend adequate national legislation to re-
claim the arid lands of the United States,
reserving control of the distribution Of We
ter for Irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
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.
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
f1cient revenue for the conduct of the war
has SO well performed its work that it has
the sum Of $40, 900, 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
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.
creasing surplus of our farm product
Every effort should be made to open and
obtain new markets, especially in the ORR
en-, and the administration is warmly 20
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 that cor ;ress create
a department of commerce and Industries
In the charge Of a secretly with a seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
be reorganizeds under the supervision of
this new department upon such a basis Of
appointment and tenure as will render 1t
still more serriceable to the nations in
~creasing trade.
The American government mist protect
the person and property of every citizen
wherever they are ~wrorgfully violated or
placed in peril.
We congratulate the women of America
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 cooperation in all works of
education and industry.
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-
pie. In releasing the Urised STATES from
the grievous conditions CT a European al
lance for the government Of Samoa his
course is especially to be commended. BY
his securing to our undivided control the
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.
We commend the part taken by our gov
erament in the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our %steadfas- 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 " the Hague treaty OF n%on-inter-
Yention in European controversies, the
American people earnestly hope that d way
may soon be found, honorably alike to both
between them.
In accepting BY the treaty of Paris the
just responsibility Of our victories in the
Spanish war, the president and the senate
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy SPANS sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and In the
Philippine islands.
before the world. and with the unorganized
population whom our intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the main
tenance Of law and order, and for the es-
adjustment of good government ard for
the performance. of international obliga-
tons. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
duty Of the government to maintain. its au-
thority, to put down armed insurrectfon
and to confer the blessings Of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure Of self-goverhment
consistent witt 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 whiea
war was declared. and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
The republican party, upon Its history
and upon this declaration Of It's principles
and policies confidently inyokes the con-
siderate and approving Judgment Of the
American people.