Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-06-28

The United States consular system
should be reorganized under the supervl'
sion of this new department upon such q
basis of appointment and tenure as will
render it still more serviceable to the ma
TONS increasing trade.
The American Government must pro-
tect the person and property of every citi-
zen wherever they are wrongfully violated
or placed in peril
We congratulate the women Of America
upon their splendid record of public SER
vice in the volunteer aid associations and
as nurses in camp and hospital during the
recent campaigns of our armies in the
Eastern and Western Indies, and we ap-
preciate 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 us from the vexatious
conditions of European alliance for the
government of Samoa his course is espec'
tally to be commended. BY securing to
our undivided control the most important
leland of the Samoan group and the best
harbor in the Southern Pacific every
American interest has been safeguarded.
ave approve the annexation Of the Ha'
waiian Islands to the United States"
We commend the part taken by our
Government in the Peace Conference at
The Hague. We assert our steadfast adj
herence to the policy announced in the
Monroe Doctrine.
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 by tue Hague treaty
of non-intervention in European contro'
versles, the American people earnestly
hope that a way may be found, honorable
alike to both contending parties, to termi'
nate 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 Amer
lean people. No other course was posi-
BILE than to destroy Spain's sovereignty
throughout the Western Indies and in the
Philippine Islands. That course created
our responsibility before the world, and
with the unorganized population whom
our Intervention had freed from Spain, tc
provide for the maintenance of law and
order and for the establishment Of good
government and for the performance Of
international obligations.
Our authority could not be less than our
responsibility, and wherever sovereign
rights we're extended it became the high
duty of the Government to maintain it,
authority, to put down armed instruction
and to confer the blessings of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued people.
The largest measure Of self-government
consistent with their welfare and our du
ties shall be secured to them by law. Tt
Cuba independence and self-governmen
were assured in the same voice by which
war was declared and to the letter thil
pledge shall be performed.
The Republican party, upon its history
and upon this declaration Of its principle
and policies, confidently invokes the con
siderate and approving judgment of TIT
American people.