Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-01


~tiinent, should be liberal, and should be
literally administered and preference
should be given wherever pra with
respect to employment in the public service
TO soldiers and sailors II to their widows
and orphans.
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We Onimen the policy of the republican
party In maintaining the efficiency OF the
civil service. The administration has net
ed wisely In its effort to secure for public
service in .Cnba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the philippine Islands only those whose fit-
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
their inhabitants.
It was the plain purpose of fifteenth
amendment to the constitution to prevent
discrimination on account of raceeor color
IN regulating the elective franchise. De-
vices of state governments, whether stat
utory or constitutional enactment, to@agoid
the purpose of this amendment, are reyo-
lufionaryS and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking TO a perma-
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
the AlegislatureS of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever its extension may
be justified.
~ ANIL LANDS. s
In further pursuance OF the constant poll
ley OF the republican party to provide free,
homes on the public domain, we recon-
mend te national legislation to re-
claim the arid lands of the United States,
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.
ETA Jxr4p m Axyrnc& $&
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
ticient revenue for the conduct Of the war
has 50 well performed It's work that 1t has
been possible to reduce the war debt in
the sum Of SS4O,o00.O0o. So ample are the
governments resenues and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of its OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent,
bonds sell ct g premium. The country Is
the policy OF the republican party to- bring
about afreductlon of the wal taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction, ownership
control and protection of ain fsthmian canal
by the government of the United States.
creaSing surplus 4of our farm products.
EEeryaseffort should be made to open and
obtain new markets, especially in the orr
snt, and the administration is warmly to-
ne commended for its successful effort to-
commit all trading and colonizing nations
through the policy of the open door in
emma. Insinterest Of our expanding com
merce, we recSmmend that congress create
a department of and Industries
In the charge of a secretly with a seat In
the cabinet. The consular system should
6e3 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 person and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
fplaced in peril.
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 cooperation in NIL works Of
education andSindustry.
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs Of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-.
PIE. Ia releasing the United States from
the gr1eyOus conditions of a European al
lance Sforgthe government of Samoa his
coursegis especially to be commended. BY
his securing to orr 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.
we the part.taken by our gov
eminent IN the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfastfadIerence
trine.
tn provisions of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
Kinley rendered hissfriendly 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
- nYt n r1nnD1 ~ m al
may soon be found, honorably alike to both
c~ontending parties, to terminate the strife
between them.
p accepting BY the treaty of Parts the
Just responsibility of our victories in the
spanish war, the president and the senate
won the nndoubted approval of the Ameri-
SAP faa people. Mo,o other course was possible
throughout the western indies and IN the
Philippine islands.
nat. course created our responsibility
before the world, and with the unorganized
population whom our Intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the lnain-
tenances of law and order, and for the 5es-
taoiisninsnt OF good government and for
tons. Our authority could not beless than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights We're EXTENDED it became the high
sauty OF the government to maintain its aI-
thorlIyf TO put down armed insurrection
and to confer the blessings of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-goVeTnment
consistent with their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. To
Cuba Independence and self-goYernment
We're assured in the same voice by which
war was declared. and to- the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
nc republican party, upon its history
and upon this declaration of It's 5principles
and policies! confidently invokes the con.
siderate ana approving judgment Of the
American people.
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