The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-06-28

farm
products. Every effort should be made
to open and obtain new markets. es.
pecially in the Orient, and the Admins.
tration is warmly to be commended for
| it's successful effort to commit all trad
ing and coloniZing nations to the policy
of the open door in China. In the in
terest Of our expanding commerce we
recommend that Congress create De
partment OF Commerce and Industries
in the charge of Secretary with a seat
| in the Cabinet. The United States Con-
sular system should be reorganized un-
der the supervision of this new depart
meRt upon such basis of appointment
and tenure as will render it still more
Serviceable to the nations increasing
trade
The American Government must pro-
tect the person and property of every
citizen wherever they are wrongfully
violated or placed in peril.
| AMERICAN WOMEN.
We congratulate the women Of Amer
lea upon their splendid record of public
! ton and as nurses in camp and hospital
armies in the Eastern and Western In
dies, and we appreciate their faithful CO.
operation in all works of education and
industry.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
President Mckinley has conducted
the foreign affairs of the United States
with distinguished credit to the Amer
lean people. In releasing us from the
vexatious conditions Of European
alliance for the government of Samoa,
his course is especially to be commended.
BY securing to our undivided control
| the most important island of the Samoan
group and the best harborin the South
ern Pacific, every American interest
has been safeguarded.
| We approve the annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands to the United 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 The provisions of
The Hague convention were wisely re-
garded when President Mckinley ten
dered his friendly offices i'll the interest
of peace between Great Britain and
the South African republics. 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 noll-intervention in European
controversies. the American people
earnestly hope that way may soon be
| found, honorable alike to both contend
| ing parties, to terminate the strife be-
tween them.
+ OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
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 American people. No other
course was possible than to destroy
Spain's sovereignty throughout the
West Indies and in the Philippine Is
| lands That course created our respon-
! sibiities before the world and with the
unorganized population whom our inter
venson had freed from Spain, to pro
! vide for maintenance of law and OF
| der. and for the esta blishment of good
government and for the performance of
international obligations. Our author
, ity could not be less than our RESPONSE
bility. and wherever sovereign rights
were extended it became the high duty
of the Government to maintain its au-
/ thority, to put down armed insurrec-
! ton and to confer the blessings OF
liberty and civilization upon all the
rescued peoples. The largest measure
of self-governmentc consistent with their
welfare and our duties shall be secured
to them by law. TO Cuba, independence
and self government We're assured in
the same voice by which war was de
clared, and to the letter this pledge
shall be performed.
The Republican Party, upon its his
tory and upon this declaration of its
principles and policies, confidently in
i vokes the considerate and approving
Judgment of the American people.