Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-29

tinent, should he liberal. and should be
lliberaliY administered and preference
Should: be given Whefeyer5practic&ble with
respect 70 employment In the public service
and orphans.
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We commend the policy of the republican
party III maintaining the efficiency OF the
civil. service. Tie administration has act
ed wisely in its effort to secure for PUBLIC
service In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii md
the Philippine Islands only those whose lit
ness has been determinedsby training and
experience We believe that employment
In tile piblic service In these territories
should be confined us far as practicable to
their inhabitants. S
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 rero-
lutionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking TO a perma-
nent Improvement of the roads and high
ways or 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
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,
reserying control of The distribution of wa
ter for irrigation to the respective states
We favor home rule for and the early
admission to statehood of the territories of
New Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma. y
A REDUCTION OFs8WAR TAXES.
The Dingley act amended to provide suf--
ticient revenue for the conduct Of the war
has so well performed Its work that it has
been possible to reduce the war debt in
the sum of $40, 900, 00G. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of its OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. The country is
now justified in expecting and it will be
the policy of the republican party to&brings
about IA reduction Of the war taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION. s.
We favor the construction ownership,
control and protection of an isthIaian canal
by the government of the United States.
New markets are necessary for the in
creasing surplus Of our farm products.
obtain new markets, especially in the ort-
ent, and the administration is warmly to
be commended for it's successful effort to
commit all trading and colonizing3 nations
through the policy Of the open door in.
China. In interest of our expanding com
merce, we recommend that congress create
a department of commerce and industries
IN the charge OF Of q secretry with as.seat IN
be reorganized under the supervision Of
this new department upon such a basis Of
appointment and tenure as will render it
still more serviceable to the nations In
creasing trade. EEEs@$
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
upo 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.
foreign affairs Of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-
pie. In releasing the United States from,
the grievous 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. 3G&E&#
We approve the annexation of the Ha-
Waiian islands to the United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
eminent 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 Hagu convention
We're wisely regarded when President Nc
Kinley rendered his friendly offices in the
interest or 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 n%on-inter-
American people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honorably alike to both
eontending parties, to terminate the strife
between them.
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 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 from Spain, to provide for the MAIN
Lenance OF law and order, and for the es-
ADJUSTMENT OF good government and for
tons Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became. the high
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-government
consistent with their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. no
Cuba independence and self-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 n approving Judgment of the
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