Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-27
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

service In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
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
1t 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-
vices of state governments. whether stat
utOry or constitutional enactment, to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are revo-5
lutionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking to q 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 its extension may
ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance of the constant pol-l
homes on the public domain, we recon-
mend adequate national legislation to re-;
claim the arid lands of the United States,
tes for ir rHnsrDlno 9 - t1 ths als sesnantiga q g .Was
and territories.
We favor home rule for and the early
admission to statehood of the territories of
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
/ EYEh&S "a OISTW AL
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
fcient revenue for the conduct of the war
has SO we'll performed its work that 1t has
been possible to reduce the war debt in
the sum of $4,000, 000. So ample are the
goyernment's revenues. and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of It's obs
Legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds. sell at 9 premium. The country is
the policy or the republican party to bring
about a reduction of the war taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of an isthmian canal
blythe 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 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
a department of commerce and Industries
in the charge Of secretry with a seat In
the cabinet. The consular system should
be ~reorganized under the supervision Of
this new department upon suchFa basis of
appointment and tenure as@will render it
still more serviceable to the nations In
creasing trade.
The American government mist protect
the person and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully 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 and hospital during the res
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
nance Tor the government of samoa his
course isSespecfally to be commended. BY
his securing to our undivided control the
import 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.
We the part taken by our gov-
erIiment In the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
e, the policy announced in the Monroe doc
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
and the South African republic. While the
American government must continue the
policy prescribed by Washington, affirmed
by every succeeding president and imposed
vention in European controversies. the
American people earnestly hope that q way
may soon be found, honorab1y alike to both
IGontending parties, to terminate the strife
In accepting BY the treaty Of Paris the
lust responsibility Of our victories in the
spanish war, the president and the senate
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy Spain's sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and IN the
Philippine Islands. s5
That course created our responsibility
before the world. and with the unorganized
population whom our intervention had
freed fsom Spain, to provide for the main
tenance OF law and order, and for the es-
tablshment of good government ana for
the performance OF international obliga-
tons. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became the hieh
duty OF the government to maintain Its au-
thortty, to put down armed insurrectfon
ana TO confer the blessings of liberty and
elyrizatlon upon all the rescued peoples.
TIL largest measure OF self-goyernment
consistent with their welfare d our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. no
We're assured In the same voice by which
war was declared. and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
and dh npa pepa ahis aac, party, upon its history
ana policiets 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 railroads.. Paul Pio-
neer Press.
It's world beater.'-St Paul
Globe.
The best thing the railroad world
can produce st. RauI Disnateh
Prominent and discriminating peo.
pie marvel at the creation of elegance
and comfort wrought BY modern car
builders Minneapolis Tribune.
The Pioneer Limited stands today
perfect IN construction, gorgeous in
finish and the acme of luxury and COM