The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-07-16

and providing for trial by jury in
cases of indirect contempt.
Water Ways.
We favor liberal appropriations for
the care and Improvement OF the water
ways OF the country. When any water
way, like the Mississippi river, Is OF
sufficient Importance to demand spe-
cial aid of the government, such aid
| should be extended, with definite
plan of continuous work until perma-
nent improvement is secured.
We oppose the Republican policy oil
starving home development in order
to feed the greed for conquest and the
appetite for national prestige" and
display of strength.
Economy of Administration.
Large reductions can easily be
made in the annual expenditures OF
the government without impairing the
efficiency of any branch OF the public
service and we shall insist upon the
strictest economy and frugality com
patible with vigorous and efficient
| civil, military and naval administra-
tion as a right of the people too clear
to be denied or withheld.
2-We favor the enforcement OF
honesty in the public service and
to that end thorough investi-
cation of those executive de-
partments Of the government already
known to TEEN with corruption, as
well as other departments suspected
of harboring corruption, and the pun
ishment of ascertadned corruptionists
without fear or favor or regard to per
sons. The persistent and deliberate
refusal of both the senate and the
house of representatives to permit
such investigation to be made, demon
strates that only by change in the
executive and in the legislative de-
partme1ts can complete exposure,
punishment md correction be obtained.
We condemn the action of the Re
publican party in congress in refusing
to prohibit an executive department
from entering into contracts with con-
victed trusts or unlawful combina-
lions in restraint of interstate trade
We believe that one of the best
methods of procuring economy and
honesty in the public service is to
have public officials, from the occu.
pant of the white house down to the
lowest of them, return as nearly as
may be, to Jeffersonian simplicity of
living.
Executive Usurpatlon.
S-We favor the nomination and
election Of president imbued with |
the principles of the constitution, who |
will set his face sternly against execu.
tive usurpation of legislative and Judi. |
cial functions, whether that usurpa.
ton be veiled under the guise of exec.
utive construction Of existing laws OF
whether it take refuge In the tyrants
pleas of necessity or superior wisdom.
Imperialism.
We favor the preservation, so far as
we can, of an open door for the
worlds commerce in the Orient with
out unnecessary entanglements in ORR
entail and European affairs, and with
out arbitrary. unlimited, irresponsi-
bic and absolute government any
where within our jurisdiction.
We oppose as fervently as did
George Washington himself an indefi-
mite, irresponsible. discretionary and
vague absolutism and a policy of
colonial exploitation no matter where
or by whom invoked or exercised. we
believe with Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams that no government has
right to make one set of laws for
those "at home" and another and a
inherent set of laws, absolute In their
character, for those 'in the colonies.
All men under the American flag are
to the protection of the insti-
-utions whose emblem the flag is: IL
.hey are inherently unfit for those in
situations. then they are inherently
INIT to be members of the American ,
BODY polite. Wherever there NAV ex-
ST people incapable OF being gov. !
'rned under American laws, in conson. !
nee with the American constitution
ne territory of that people ought not I
o be part OF the American domain. {
we insist that we ought to do for I
ne Filipincs what We have done al {
eady for the Cubans, and 1t is our
uty to make that promise now. and
pom suitable guarantees of protection I
D citlzens OF our = own and other g
ountries resident there at the time !,
our withdrawal, set the Filipino I
eople upon their feet free and jnda 1;
endent, to work out their own des. q
ny. =
Inc endeavor of the secretary of n
AR. by pledging the governmental On. q
orsement for promoters" in the a
niiippine islands, to make the United I,
tates partner In speculative legic. 1,
'tion for the archipelago. which n
as only temporarily held up by the (,
pposition OF Democratic senator's in n
ie last session. will. II successful Il
ad TO entanglements from which Il q