Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-20
u DlAILY- TkIBuNE: THuRsDAY. sep. g. 1900

timent, should be liberal, and should be
literally administered and preference
should be given wherever practicable with
respect to employment In the public service
to soldiers and sailors and to their widows
and orphans.
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We commend the policy Of the republican
IEparty In maintaining the efficiency OF the
civil service. The administration has act
service In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii n
Philippine islands only those whose fit
ness has been determined by trimming and
experience. We believe that employment
In the public service in these territories
should be confined as far as8practicable to
their inhabitants.
1T was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
amendment toSthe constitution to prevent
discrimination on account of race or color
In regulating the elective franchise. De-
vices of state governments, whether stat
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
the earnest consideration of the people and
the legislatures Of the several states.
favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever its extension may
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ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance OF the constant poll
Icy of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we recon-
mend adequate national legislation to re-
r sla,m me e srla 1ao e tn Se d ihs 5n1dea sfa 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-
ficient revenue for the conduct of the war
has SO well performed its work that it has
been possible to reduce the war debt In
the sum of $4,000 600. 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 n reduction of the war taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection Of an isthmian canal
by the government of the United States.
creasing surplus Of our farm products.
! Every effort should be made to open and
obtain new markets, especially In the ORR
ent, and the administration is warmly to
be commended for it's 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
q department Of and industries
In the charge of o secretry with a seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
be reorganized 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-5
creasing trade,
The American government must protect
| the EnprS0O q md nrnnnrtv Of avarv nff{Znu
wherever they. are W~rongfully violated 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 n 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
t?reign affairs Of the United States, with
pie. In releasing the United Stntes from
the grieyous conditions of a European al
lance for the government Of Samoa his
course Is especially to be commended. By
his securing to our undivided control the
most Important island Of the Samoan group
and the best harbor in2the southern Pacific.
every American interest has been safe
We approve the annexation of the; Ha-
waiian islands to the United States$
We commend the part taken by our goy-
| cEAlluEuJ%l tue EDeuCe& conference 1T+CQGI
Hagne. We assert our steadfasts adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine.
The provisions Of the Hague convention
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 the Hague treaty of non-tnter-!
vention In European controversies. the
may soon be found, honorabiy alike to both;
c~,ontending parties, to terminate the strife
between them.
III r accepting lI4;,' y the treaty q Paris the
spanish war, the president and the senate
won the undombted approval OF the Ameri-i
can people. No other course was possible
throughout the western indies and m the
Philippine islands. 81
That course created our responsibility
before the world. and with the nnorganized;
population whom our intervention had
freed from Spain, to provide for the main:
tenance OF law and order, and for the es-!
punishment OF good government and for
lions. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became the high
duty, Of the government to maintain Its au-
thority, to put down armed Instruction
and to confer the blessings of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-government
consistent witt: their welfare and our du-.
ties 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.
The republican party, unon Its history
and upon this declaration OF Its principles
and policieis confidently invokes the con-
siderate and approving Judgment Of the
American people.
Inventors! Y SIC S, FEE
PATENTS PROCURED; TIME PAYMENTS.
Write Edward @. Goodwin, President.
inventors Law Co.. Washington, %. !.
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