, 1900-06-28

the people and OF the Legislatures OF the
several states.
We favor the extension of the rural
tension may be justified.
Its further pursuance of the constant
policy OF the RepublLtan party to pro-
vide free homes ON the public domain We
recommend adequate national legislation
10 reclaim the arid lands of the United
states, .reserving control of the distrib-
ution of water for irrigation to this respec-
tive states and territories.
admission to statehood. OF the territories
OF New Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma.
su The D,ingley act am E n S6rt to provide tSe
war has so well performed its work that
Il has been possible to reduce the war
are the governments revenues and SO
great is the public confidence in the in
tegrity of its obligations that Its newly
funded two per cent. bonds sell at a pre-
MUM: The country is now justified in
expecting and II will be the policy of the
duction of the war taxes. We favor the
construction, ownership. control and pro-
eminent of the United States. New mar
ketS are necessary for the increasing sur
plus OF our farm products. Every, effort
should De made to open and obtain new
markets. especially in the Orient, and
the ADMINISTRATION is warmly to be com
mended for its successful effort to commit
all trading and %colonizing nations to the
policy of the open door In China:
merce, we recommend that Congress ere
ate n department of and indus
tries in The charge of a secretary With a
consular system should be reorganized
under the supervision of this new depart
ment upon such n basis OF appointment
and tenure as will render 1t still more
seryiceable to the nations increasing
trade.
The American government must protect
the person, and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
We congratulate the women of America
upon their splendid record of public SER
vice in the volunteer Aid Association. and
as nurses in camp and hospital during
the recent campaigns of our armies In the
Eastern and Western indies, and we APP,
works of education and Industry.
President Mckinley has conducted the
distinguished credit to the American peo-
pie. In releasing us from the veNatious
European alliance for the government of
Samoa, his course is especially to be
commended, By ecuring to our undivid-
ed control the most important island of
in the Southern Pacific, every American
interest has been safeguarded.
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 Tho
hague. We assert our steadfast adher-
ence to the policy announced in the Mon
roe doctrine; The provisions of The
when President Mckinley rendered his
friendly offices In the interest of peace be-
tween treat Britain and the South Afrt-
can republics. While the American gov
ernment must continue the policy pre-
scribed by Washington, affirmed by every
succeeding president, and imposed upon
us by The Hague treaty, of non-interven-
tlon IN European controversies. the Amer
lean people earnestly hope that n way
may soon be found. honorable alike to
both c~ontending parties, to terminate the
strife between them.
In accepting by the treaty of Paris the
Just responsibility of our Victories I'm the
Spanish War, the President and the Sem
ate won the u~ndoubted approval of the
American people. No other course was
possible than to destroy Spain's sover-
eighty throughout the West Indies and
In the Philippines islands, That course
created our responsibility before the world
and with the unorganiZed population
whom our Intervention had freed from
Spain, to provide for the maintenance of
law and order and for the establishment
of good government and for the perform
ance of International obligations. Our
authority could not be less than our re-
sponstbility, and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became the high
duty of the government to maintain Its
authority. to put down armed insurrec-
ty and civilization upon all the rescued
peoples. The largest measure of self
government consistent with their well
fare and our duties shall be secured to
them by law. To Cuba, independence and
self-government We're assured in the same
voice by which war was declared, and to
the letter this pledge shall be performed.
and upon this declaration of its principles
and policies. confidently invokes the con-
s~iderate and approving judgment of the
American people.