The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-22

and of the legislatures of the several
states. We favor the extension of the
rural free delivery service wherever its
extension may be justified.
In further pursuance of the constant
recommend adequate national legislation
to reclaim the arid lands of the United
States, reserving control of the distribu-
ton of water for irrigation to the respen-
tive states and territories
We favor home rule for and the early
admission to statehood of the territories
of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
Reduction of War Taxes.
The Dingley act, amended to provide
sufficient revenue for the conduct of the
war, has so we'll performed it's work that
it has been possible to reduce the war
debt in the sum of $4O,OOO,0OO So ample
are the governments revenues and so
great is the public confidence in the in
tegrity of its obligations that it's newly
funded per cent bonds sell at premium.
The country is now justified in expecting,
and it will be the policy of the Republican
party, to bring about reduction of tho
war taxes
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 its successful effort to
commit all trading and colonizing ma
tions to the policy of the open door in
China.
New Cabinet Officer Recommended.
In the interest of our expanding COM
merce, we recommend that congress create
department of commerce and industries
in the charge of a secretary. with a seat
in the cabinet The United States con-
sular system should be reorganized under
the supervision of this new department.
upon such basis of appointment and
tenure as will render it still more service
able to the nations increasing trade.
The American government must protect
the person and property of every citizen
wherever thev are wrongfully violated or
placed in peril.
We congratulate the women of America
upon their splendid record of public serv
ice in the volunteer aid association and as
nurses in camp and hospital during the
recent campaigns of our armies in the
Eastern and Western Indies, and we ap-
preciate their faithful cooperation in all
works of education and industry
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs of the United States with
QlSulnHulSleu cFeNll to ulie AueFlcttu peO-
pie In releasing us from the vexatiouS
conditions OF Il European alliance for the
government of Samoa his course is espe-
cially to be commended. By 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 safeguarded.
We approve the annexation of the Har
waiian islands to the Uuited States.
We commend the part taken by our
government in the peace conference at
The Hague.
We assert our steadfast adherence to the
policy announced in the Monroe doctrine.
Boer-British Plank.
The provisions of The Hague convention
were wisely guarded when President Nc
kinley rendered his offices in the war be-
tw cen Great Britain and the South Afri-
can republics While the American gov
ernment must continue the policy pre-
scribed ny Washington, affirmed by every
, succeeding president and imposed upon
by The Hague treaty OF noninteryention
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
In accepting by the treaty of Paris the
lust responsibility of our victories in the
Spanish war the president and the senate
won the undoubted approval of the Amer
lean people No other course was possible
than to destroy Spains sovereignty
throughout the West 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 maintenance of law and
order and for the establishment of good
government and for the performance of
:, International obligations. Our authority
could not be less than our responsibility
and wherever sovereign rights We're OK
/ tended it became the high duty of the
government to maintain its authority, to
put down armed instruction and to con-
S fer the blessings of liberty and civilization
t aaen all the rescued people. The largest
measure of self-government consistent
with their welfare and our duties shall be
secured to them by law. Cuba indie
pendence and self-government We're as
4 sured in the same voice by which war was
: declared and to the letter this pledge shall
: be performed.
The Republican party upon it's history
3 and upon this declaration of its principles
+ and policies confidently invokes the con.
> siderate and approving Judgment of the
American people.