Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-17

tilnent, should be liberal. n should be
liberally administered and preference
should be given wherever practicable with
respect to employment In the public service
to soldiers and sailors n to their widows
orphans.
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We comslSnd the policy of the republican
IariS iii maintaining the efficiency of the
cixil service. The administration has act
ed Wisely III its effort to secure for public
%service In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippine islands only those whose tit
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.
1t was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution to prevent
discrimination on account of race or color
vices of state governments, whether stat
utory or constitutional enactment, to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are reyo-
lutionary 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 legislatures of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever it's extension may
be justified.
ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance Of the constant pol-
Icy 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 wa
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-
1cient 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 $40,00o,000. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of its OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. The country is
now justified in expecting and 1T Will be
the policy Of the republican party to bring
about q reduction of the war taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of an isthrnian canal
by the government of the United States.
New markets are necessary for the in
creasing surplus of our farm products.
Every effort should be mad to open and
obtain new markets, especially in the ORR
ent, and the administration is warmly to
be commended for its 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 congress create
a department of and industries
in the charge Of q secretly with a seat in!
the cabinet. The consular system should
be recognized 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 American government must protect
the person and property of every citizen
wherever tfhnC a Q wrnnufn11u vi0Iafa1 or
placed 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 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 United States from
the grieyous conditions of a European al
lance Tor the government of Samoa his
course is especially to be commended. BY
his securing to our undivided control the
m 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. 4
We commend the part taken by our gov
m in the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfast 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
ana 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-
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American people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honorably alike to both
contending parties, to terminate the strife
" 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 Ameri-
f fqan people. d Sa other &c course was possible
throughout the western indies and in the
Philippine islands.
That course created our responsibility
before the world, and with the unorpanized
population whom our Intervention had
freed fem Spain, to provide for the main
tenance of law n order, and for the es-
ADJUSTMENT Of good government and for
Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended it became the high
DUTY OF the government to maintain its au-;
thority, to put down armed insurrection
and to confer the blessings Of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-goyeFnment
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.
The republican party, upon its history
ana upon this declaration Of It's principIes
and policies confidently: invokes the con.
siderate and approving Judgment of the
american people.
Editorial Comment on the Pioneer
Limited.
Nothing richer has ever been pro-
duced by any railroad.'-st. Paul Pio-
neer Press.
ITS a world beater."-st. Paul
Globe.
The best thing the railroad world
can produce"-St. Paul Dispatch.
Prominent and discriminating PEG
pie marvel at the creation of elegance
and comfort wrought by modern car
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