The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04
CREATING NEW JOBS
CONSISTENT RECORD OF THE RE-
 PUBLICAN PARTY.
Now it is Proposed 10 Provide for a Department of Insular Affairs
 and it is Confidently Ex- pected to Be Done.

WASHINGTON. Nov 3.-(Special )-There is no denying credit to the Republican Party for progress in one direction at least and a very consistent record at that It is in its unwrtt- ten, but unmistakable far-reaching and per suasive policy of providing office for its people If there are not enough to go round, or if it is deemed advisable to strengthen the party, the Republican leaders go to work and find a way of creating more offices to be filled with their kind New bureaus, new judicial dis tricts new departments and expansion In of flee holding have to be written down to the credit of the Republican Party. It has always been a great spender and thereby has capti- Vated the inherent cupidity of not few of American people.
 The new department that of Commerce and Labor had its incubation during Mckinley s administration and its birth in Roosevelt s regime. Now, another department, bringing in another cabinet officer, is about to he provided for by the Republican leaders. This is to be known as the Department of Insular Affairs Advocates of the scheme already speak of it with the confidence of assured success, and nc doubt they have good reasons for the faith that Is in them.
 The Washington Evening Star, which has all ways been intimate with Republican admnis- trations, has this to say on the subject:
 ''The need at this time for a department to consider matters relating to insular CO., louial affairs of the United States Is apparent to every one who has anything to do with the
 
 that connection. The Bureau of Insular Affairs now attached to the War Department, under the charge of Col. Clarence R. Edwards. has a staff of % clerks, and 1t Is not able to accom- plish anything like the things that many peo- pie think II should If all the work that really relates to the insular affairs of the Govern ment were brought together under single de- partment, 1t Is said it's proportions would be such as to require not only building almost as large as those of some of the other depart mPntS fill but imuOrta0pe would be 0ultC equal to the dignity that is supposed to attach to a great department of the Government.
 "A better unifcatiou of colonial relations and a more systematic supervision from the capl tai, 1t Is thought. can only be secured by ueh- mite representation of the island possessions oi the United states in the Presidents cablnel The name 'lnsular' rather than 'coloniaf ,is preferred for such a bureau, and as all tne outlying territory of the United states eAceP' Alaska is in the form of islands that tern would be correct to denote those parts "i 'i' United States that would come under the s0'P' of such a department" .
 One of the needs for the proposed depart ment is pointed out in the case or FuIo Fu S nlSSo That island has no headquarters III "a7i'e ,i ton. Persons who from time 10 tlhie cd' the insuar bureau to make inqulrles auoue s'il "i fairs appertaining to the island are ihiorinoO that there Is nobody here who can best morn them and they arc referred 10 I'oNeiHo' nun IIui' Certain branches of the older depar rtnleil.' u have working connections Tn the ls'ali"' ~ ~ as bureaus in the Department Of Agrlculture tb. wssthar Bureau and the Coast Survey.
 Porto Rico occupies peculiar position has practically been divorced rom Ihe c,''.o> .o States in most essentials II coilects - anu - tains it's own revenues What this HoVetiiiieli is now doing for 1t through the oiu Sel., eI".,,, nents Is gratuitous It is said if cabiesrah | for the Government should come here @ Ituh Porto Rico there Is one short or the rvs, l dent who can attend to 4t' and ne ls 'oO 4AUS