The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-18

jury would result from delay, in
which case a speedy hearing
thereafter should be granted.
The Authorization Plank.
Among those whose welfare is as vital
to the welfare of the whole country as
is that of the wage Garner is the Ameri-
can farmer. The prosperity of the
whole country rests peculiarly upon the
prosperity of agriculture.
The Republican party during the last
twelve years has accomplished extraor-
binary work in bringing the
Of the national government to the aid
of the farmer. not only in advancing
agriculture itself, but in Increasing the
-conveniences of rural life
Free rural delivery has been estab-
lished; it now reaches millions of our
citizens, and we favor its extension
until every community in the land re-
ceives the full benefits of the postal
service.
We recognize the social and economic
advantages of good country roads,
maintained more and more largely at
public expense, and less and less at the
expense Of the abutting owner. In this
work we commend the growing prac-
tise of State aid and we approve the
efforts of the national agricultural de-
partment by experiments and otherwise
TO make clear to the public the best
methods of road construction, the
growing factors of State aid and
believe in such national assistance as
car be appropriately rendered.
The Republican party has been for
more than fifty years the consistent
friend of the American negro, which
gave him freedom and citizenship. 1t
wrote into the organic law the declara-
tons that proclaim his civil and po-
litical rights, and it believes today
that his noteworthy progress in intel
ligence, industry and good citizenship
has earned the respect and encourage
ment of the M nation. We demand equal
Justice for all men, without regard to
race or color.
We declare once more, and without
reservation, for the enforcement in let
ter and spirit of the thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the
constitution, which were designed for
the protection and advancement of the
negro. and we condemn all devices that
have for their real aim his disfran-
chisement for reasons of color alone
as unfair, un-American and r%epugnant
to the supreme law of the land.
We indorse the movement Inaugural
ted by the administration for the conf
! servation of natural resources; we APP
prove all measures to prevent the
waste of timber; we commend the work
now going on for the reclamation of
arid lands. and reaffirm the Republi-
can policy of the cree distribution of
the available areas of the public do
main to the landless settler. No obIiga-
ton of the future is more insistent and
mono will result in greater blessings to
posterity, In line with this splendid
undertaking is the further duty, equal
ly imperative, to enter upon a sys-
tematic Improvement upon a large and
comprehensive plan. just to all portions
of the country, of the waterways, har-
bors and great lakes whose natural
a~daptability to the increasing traffic
of the land Is one of the greatest gifts
OF a benign Providence.
Foreign Policy.
The present Congress passed many
commendable acts increasing the eff
f1ciency of the army and navy, making
the militia of the States an integral
part of the national establishment,
authorizing joint maneuvers of the
army and militia. fortifying new naval
bases and completing the construction
of coaling stations, instituting a female
nurse corps for naval hospitals and
ships and adding two new battleships,
ten torpedo-boat d~estroyers, three
steam Golfers and eight submarines to
the strength of the navy Although
at ~peace-with all the world and secure
in the consciousness that the Ameri-
a people do not desire n will not
provoke a wal with any other coun-
try, we nevertheless declare ouI
unalterable devotion to a policy
that viii keep this republic ready at
all times to defend her traditional doc
trines, protect her citizens at home and
abroad and assure her an appropriate
part in promoting permanent tran
quillity among the nations.
We commend the vigorous efforts
made by the administration to protect
American citizens in foreign lands
and pledge ourselves to insist upon the
Just and equal protection of all our
citizens abroad. 1t is the unquestion-
ed duty of the government to pro-
cure for al. our citizens, without dis
JUNCTION, the rlBhtS Oh tTaVSi anu so'
journ in friendly countries, and we
declare ourselves in favor of all proper
efforts tending to hat end.
Under the administration of the Re-
publican party the foreign commerce.
of the United States has experienced a
remarkable growth until it has a pres
ent annual valuation Of approximately
three billions of dollars, and gives EN-
ployment to q vast amount of labor
and capital which would otherwise be
idle. Tt has in~augurated, through tht
recent visit of the Secretary of State
to South America and Mexica. a new
era Of pan-American commerce, ano
comfy which is bringing us into closer
touch with our twenty sister American
republics. having q common historical