Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-25

Hstiinent, should be liberal, and should be
literally administered and preference
respect to employment in the public service
to soldiers and sailors and to their widows
and orphans. lS
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We 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 pubic
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
utory or constitutional enactment, to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are revo-
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 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 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
reserving control of The distribution of wa
ter for irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
We favor home 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 we'll performed its work that 1t has
been possible to reduce the war debt In
the sum of $40, 600, O0G. SO ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the
public confidence in the integrity of it's OBJ
legations that its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. The country is
the 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 sthnian canal
by the government of the United States.
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
lnerce, we that congress create
L department of commerce and industries
in the charge of Il Secretry with Il seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
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.
The American government mnst protect
the person and property of every citizen
V-hprnyaY thnV nrn Urnnpfnlly vlnlDfGH 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 i'll 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 froEt
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.
We approve the annexation of the Ha-
waiian islands to the United States.
We ommend 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 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
upon us by the Hague treaty of non-inter-
Cantjnn In Eirrnpnans anrt rnI-nrciac fba
American people earnestly hope that q 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 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
tenance of law and ORDER, and for the es-
the'I performa on s0 of i EGxsfnTen5. ao oSljf for
lions. Our authority could not he 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 witt: their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to them by law. To
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 it's history
and upon this declaration Of it's principles
and policies confidently invokes the con-
siderate and approving Judgment Of the
American people.