The sun., 1900-06-21

practicable with respect TO employment
in the public service to soldiers and sail
ors and to their widows and orphans.
We commend the policy of the Re
publican party in maintaining The eff
cheney OF the civil service. The admins
tration has acted wisely in lis effort tv
secure for public service in Cuba, Porto
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands
only those whose fitness has been deter
mined by training and experience. We
believe that employment in the public
service in these territories should be con
fined ms far rs practicable to their inhab-
itants
The Race Question.
1T was the plain purpose of the fif-
teenth amendment to the constitution to
prevent discrimination on account of
race or color in regulating the elective
franchise. Devices of state governments,
whether by statutory or constitutional
enactment, to avoid the purpose of this
amendment are revolutionary and should
be condemned.
Public movements looking to 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 of the legislatures of the
several states.
I'VE favor the extension of the rural
free delivery service wherever its exten-
sion may be justified.
'sIn 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-
tion of water for irrigation to the re-
spective states and territories.
I'VE 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 we'll performed its work that
it has been possible to reduce the war
debt in the sum of S40.000.000. So ample
are the governments revenues and so
great is the public confidence in the in
tegrity of its obligations that its newly
funded per cent bonds sell at n premi-
um The country is now justified in ex-
pecting, and it will be the policy of the
Republican party to bring about, Il reduc-
tion of the war taxes.
The Isthmian Canal.
"We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of an isthmian ca
nal by the government of the United
States. New markets are necessary for
the increasing surplus of our farm prod
ucts. Every effort should be made to
open and obtain new markets, especially
in the orient, and the administration is
warmly to be commended for its success
full effort to commit all trading and colo.
nizing nations to the policy of the open
door in China. In the interest of our ex-
panding commerce we recommend that
congress create a department of COM
merce and industries in the charge of a
secretary, with a seat in the cabinet. The
United States consular system should be
reorganized under the supervision of this
new department upon such basis of ap-
pointment and tenure as will render it
still more serviceable to the nations in
creasing trade.
"The American government must pro-
tect the person and property of every cit
izen wherever they are wrongfully vic.
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