Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-04

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should be given wherever practicable with
respect to employment the public service
to soldiers and sailors and to their widows
and orphans. ss
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
VIZ 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 and
the Philippine islands only those whose fit
ness has been determined by training and
experience. We believe that employment
in the public service in these sterritories
should be confined as far as practicable to
their Inhabitants
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
tutory or constitutional enactment, to avoid
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.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever it's extension may
be justified. t ES
@ ARID LANDS.
5lnsfurther pursuance Of the constant pol
Icy of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we recon-
claim the arid lands of the United States,
reserving control of The distribution Of wa
ter for irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
admission to statehood of the territories Of
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES.
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
5flcient revenue for the conduct OF the war
has so well performed its work that it has
been possible to reduce the war debt in
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence inethe integrity of it's OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
now justified in expecting and it will be
d policy of 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
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
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
a department of commerce and industries
IN the charge of q 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
still more seryiceable to the %nation's in
creasing trade.
The American government mist protect
the person and property of every citizen
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 and 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
foreign affairs of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-
pie. In releasing the United States from
lance for the government of Samoa his
course is especially to be commended. BY
ms securing to our undivided control the
most important island of the Samoan group
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 commend the part taken by our gov
efnment IN the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
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The provisions of the Hague convention
We're 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
upon US by the Hague treaty of non-inter-
vention in European controversies. the
american nAOnle parnpSt1vS h0naEt hi r a way
may soon be found, honorably alike to both
contending parties, to terminate the strife
between 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 undoubted approval of the Ameri-
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy Spain's soyereignty
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 from Spain, to provide for the MAIN
tenance eff law and order, and for the es-
punishment of good government and for
.tfons. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights We're extended it became the high
duty or the government to maintain Its au-
thor1ty, to put down armed insurrection
and to confer the blessings Of liberty and
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of seIf-goveFhment
consistent with 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.
Ihe republican party, upon its history
and upon this declaration Of its principles
ana policies, confidently inyokes the con-
siderate and approving Judgment Of the
American people.
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Limited.
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