Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-27
NEW EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

NEW EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
In the interest of our expanding COM
merce we recommend that congress Gre
ate a department of commerce and in
dustries, in the charge of a secretary,
with a seat in the cabinet.
The United States consular system
should be reorganized under the super
vision of this new department, under
such a basis of appointment and tenure
as will render it still more serviceable
to the nations increasing trade.
PROTECTION OF CITIZENS.
The American government must pro-
tect the person and property of every
citizen wherever he is wrongfully vio-
lated or placed in peril.
WORK OF WOMEN.
W. congratulate the women Of Amer
lea upon their splendid record of public
service in the volunteer aid association
and as nurses in camp and hospital
during the recent campaigns of our
armies in the eastern and western In
dies, and we appreciate their faithful
cooperation in all works of education
and industry.
SAMOA.
President Mckinley has conducted
the foreign affairs of the United States
with distinguished credit to the Ameri-
a people. In releasing us from the
~vexatious condition of a European alli-
ance for the government of Samoa, his
course is especially to be commended.
BY securing to our undivided control
the most important island of the Sa-
moan group, and the best harbor in the
Southern Pacific, every American in
terest has been safeguarded.
HAWAII.
We approve the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands to the United States.
BOERS AND MONROE DOCTRINE.
We commend the part taken by our
government in the peace conference at
The Hague. We assert our steadfast
adherence to the policy announced in
the Monroe doctrine. The provisions of
The Hague convention were wisely re-
when President Mckinley ten
dered 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 Wash
affirmed by every succeeding
president, and imposed upon us by The
Hague treaty, Of n-intervention in
European controversies, the American
people earnestly hope that a way may
soon be found, honorable alike to both
parties, to terminate the
strife between them.
THE PHILIPPINES AND CUBA.
In accepting, by the treaty of Paris,
he just responsibility Of our victories
the Spanish war, the president and
he senate won the undoubted approval
the American people. No other curse
was possible than to destroy SPANS
sovereignty throughout the West Indies
in the Philippine islands.
That course created our responsible
ty before the world, and with the I'M
organized population whom our inter-
had freed from Spain to provide
or the maintenance of law and order,
md for the establishment of good gov
and for the performance of in
obligations.
Our authority could not be less than
responsibility. and wherever sover-
rights were extended 1t became the
nigh duty Of the government to main
ain its authority, to put down armed
nsurrection and to confer the blessings
# liberty and civilization upon all the
peoples.
The largest measure of self-govern-
nent consistent with their welfare and
,ur duties shall be secured to them by
aw.
To Cuba independence and self-gov-
were assured in the m voice
~ which war was declared, and to the
etter this pledge shall be performed.
AN HONORABLE RECORD.
The Republican party, upon Its his
DRY and upon this declaration of its
principles and policies, confidently in
,okes the ~considerate and approving