Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-06
NEW EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

NEW EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
In the interest of u expanding COM
MERGE 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.
We 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-
can 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 u
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-
garded 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
ington, affirmed by every succeeding
president, and imposed upon us by The
Hague treaty, of non-intervention in
European controversies, the American
people earnestly hope that a way may
soon be found, honorable alike to both
.contending parties, to terminate the
strife between them.
THE PHILIPPINES AND CUBA.
In accepting, by the treaty of Paris,
the just responsibility of victories
in the Spanish war, the president and
the senate won the u%ndoubted approval
of the American people. No other course
was possible than to destroy spain's
sovereignty throughout the West Indies
and in the Philippine islands.
That course created our responsible
ity before the world, and with the un-
organized population whom our inter-
vention had freed from Spain to provide
the maintenance of law and order,
and for the establishment Of good gov
eminent and for the performance of in
ternational obligations.
Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility, and wherever sover-
eign rights were extended 1t became the
high duty Of the government to main
tain its authority. to put down armed
insurrection and to confer the blessings
of liberty and civilization upon all the
rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-govern-
consistent with their welfare and
our duties shall be secured to them by
law.
To Cuba independence and self-gov-
eminent were assured in the same voice
by which war was declared, and to the
letter this pledge shall be performed.
AN HONORABLE RECORD.
The Republican party, upon its his
tory and upon this declaration of its
and policies, confidently in
vokes the considerable and approving
NJ fhp American nponle.