Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25

timent. should be liberal. and should be
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
party in maintaining the efficiency Of the
civil service. The administration has act
ed wisely In Its effort to secure for public
service In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii n
ness has been determined by trimming and
experience. We believe that employment
In the public service in these territories
should be confined as far as practicable to
Ii. was the plain purpose of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution to prevent
discrimination on account OF race or color
in regulating the elective franchise. De-
utory or constitutional enactment, to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are revo-
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 this subject to
the earnest consideration of the people and
the legislatures Of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free
be justified.
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-
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 Dfngley act amended to provide suf-
%ticient revenue for the conduct of the war
been possible to reduce the war debt in
the sum of $40, 100000 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 isthmian 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 made to open and
ent, and the administration is: warmly to
be commended for its successful effort to
commit all trading n colonizing nations
through the policy of the pen door in
IChina. In interest of our expanding COM
merce, We recommend that congress create
a department of and Industries
IN the charge Of a 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 1t
still more seryiceable to the nations in
creaSing trade.
The American government 1m,Isr nrotact
the person and property Of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
placed in peril.
We Scongratulate the women of America
upon their splendid record Of public service
in the volunteer aid association and the
nurses In camp and hospita! during the re-
ern and western Indies, and we appreciate
their faithful co-operatfonsin all works Of
Education and industry.
President MCKINLEY has conducted the
foreign affairs of the United States with,
distinguished credit to the American PEG
pie. In releasing the United States 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 In the southern Pacific.
every American interest has been safe-
guarded.
We approve the annexation Of the Ha-
waiian islands to the United States.
$lSSe SOMulSIu LIE part taken sDyS OUT g0y-
nmen In the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe. doc
trine.
The provisions Of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
kinley rendered his friendly offices In the
interest of pence between Great Britain
and the South African republic. While the
american government must continue the
policy prescribed by Washington, affirmed
BY every succeeding president and imposed
upon us by the Hague treaty of non-inter-
vention In European controversies, the
American people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honorabIy nike to both
c~ontending parties, to terminate the strife
twe them.
IN accepting by the treaty Of Paris the
Just responsibility OF our Victories in the
Spanish war, the president and the senate
won the Indoabted approval of the Amerl-
than to destroy SpaIn's sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and In the
Philippine islands.
That course created our responsibility
before the world. and with the unorganized
population whom our Intervention had
freed rom Spain to provide for the ihain-.
tenanse Ct law and order, and for the es-$
the performance Of international obliea-
lions. Our authority could not he less
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became the high
duty Of the government to maintain Its an-
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-goyerhnlent
consistent With their welfare 4 our du-.
ties shall be secured to them BY law. TO.
Cuba Independence h seif-government
We're assured In the same voice BY which
war was declared. and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed. .s
Inc party, upon it's history
and upon this declaration Of Its principles
2 poHcieis confidently invokes the con-
Isiderafe and approving Judgment OF the
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