Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-12

timent. should be liberal. and should be
literally administered and preference
respect to empioyment in tie public Service
to soldiers and sailors and to thefr widows
and orphans.
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We m the policy of Metropolitan
party In maintaining the efficiency of the
civil service. The administration has act
ed wisely in it's 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 territories
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
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
approval and we recommend this subject to
the legislatures of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free
delivery service wherever its extension may
be justified. Es
ARID LANDS.
In further pursuance Of the constant pol
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,
reserying control of the distribution of wa
ter for irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
We favor nome 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
sum of S40,0O0,O0C. So ample are the
public confidence in the integrity of Its OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. Thu country is
now justified in expecting and it 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
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 nations
through the policy Of the open door in
merce, we recommend that congress create
a department Of commerce, and Industries
IN the charge Of q 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 it
still more serviceable to the nations in
creasing trade.
The American governments musr nrntecf
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 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-
ple.8In releasing the United States from
the grteyous conditions OF q 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
We approve the annexation Of the Ha-
Waiians islands to the United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
a eminent a IN IL me peace conference at the
TO the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine.
The provisions of the Hague convention
we're wisely regarded when President Nc
interest of peace between Great Britain
and the South African republic. While the
American government must continue the
policy prescribed by Washington, affirmed
DIV every succeeding nraSfdonf and fInnOSoS
upon. us by the Hague treaty of non-inter-
Ventlon In European controversies, the
american people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honorably alike to both
c~ontending 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 n the senate
won the unidentified approyal5of the Ameri-
can people. No other course was possible
than to destroy spaln's sovereignty
i~nrongnout the western Indies and In tho
hat course created our responsibility
before the world. and with the u~norganized
population whom our intervention had
~tenance of law order, and for the es-
adjustment of good government and for
the performance Of international obliga-
lions. Our authority could not be less thar
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 insnrrection
civilization upon all the rescued peoples.
The largest measure of self-government
consistent WITH their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. To
Cuba independence and seif-government
were assured In the same voice by which
war was declared. and to the letter this
pledge shall be performed.
The republican party, upon its history
and upon this declaration Of Its principles
and policies confidently invokes the con-
siderate and approving Judgment OF the
American people. 44%
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