Arizona republican., 1904-07-09

 sufficient importance to demand special aid of the government, such aid should be extended with a definite plan Of work until a permanent inn is secured.
 We oppose the republican policy of starving home development in order to feed greed for conquest and appetite for national prestige" and display ot strength.
 ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATION
 l. Large reductions can easily be made in the annual expenditures of the without impairing the eff ciency 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 administration as the right of the people, too clear to be denied or withheld.
 2. We favor honesty in the public service and the enforcement of hon. esty in the public service and to that end q thorough legislative investiga- ton of those executive departments of the government already known to reek with corruption, and the punishment of ascertalned corruptionsts without fear or favor or regard to persons. The persistent and deliberate refusal of both the senate and house of represen-. tatives to permit such investigation to be made demonstrates that only by change in the executive and in legisla-l tive departments can complete eXpos- ure, punishment and conviction be ob- tained.
 CONTRACTS WITH TRUSTS.
 We condemn the action of the repub- liean party in congress in refusing to prohibit, the executive department from entering into contracts with con- victed trusts or unlawful combinations in restraint of interstate trade. We believe that ore of the best methods of procuring economy and honesty in public service is to have public officials from the occupant of the White House down to the lowest of them, return as nearly as may be to Jeffersonian sim plicity. of living.
 EXECUTIVE USURPATION
 We favor the nomination and election Of a president imbued with the prime = ples of the constitution, who will set his face sternly against executive usurra- ton of legislative and judicial -func tions, whether that usurpation be veil ed under the guise of an executive con- struction of existing laws or whether it takes refuge in the tyrant's pl5a O. necessity or superior wisdom.
 IMPERIALISM
 We favor the preservation, so far as we can. of an open door for the world s commerce in the Orient, without .ar5i- trary, unlimited. irresponsible and ab- solute government anywhere within cur jurisdiction. We oppose, fervent- Iy, as did George Washington himself indefinite. irresponsible, discretionary, and vague absolutism and the DO icy of colonial exploitation, no matter where or by when exercised; we be- lieve with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. that no government has right to make cne set of laws for those 'at home" and another and different set q laws, absolute in their character. fo- those "in colonies"
 All men under the American flag arr entitled to the protection of institu- tions whose emblem the flag is, if they are fit to be members of the American body polite.
 ! WwhereveT there may exist a people : incapable of being governed undel American laws in connection with tn | American domain we insist that WI ought to do for the FiiiDinOs what W. have done already for the Cubans ,ant it is our duty to make that promise now, and, upon suitable guarantees O protection to the citizens of our owi and other countries resident there a the time of cur withdrawal, set the F l i ipino people upon their feet, free anc 1 independent, to work out their owl destiny.
 The endeavor of the secretary O war, by pledging the governments en dorsement for promoters" in tn
 Philippine Islands to make the Uni e
 States a partner in speculative legisla tion of the archipelago, which wa
 only temporarily held up by the oppo
 sition of democratic senators in tn last Session will, if successful, lead t
 ertanglements from which it will b difficult to retreat.