The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-13
LINCOLN DAY.
M.I1INLEY CHEERED BY FIFTEEN
HUNDRED PEOPLE.
Address of the Ex-Governor "a Char
acteristfcaIy Magnificent Piece
of characterization the Main
Theme.

! CHICAGO, Feb 12.-When William
Mckinley arose to speak tonight al
! the banquet in the Auditorium, given
| by the Marquette club, in commemora-
/ tion of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln
/ ]. 800 men cheered the Ohioan with the
/ vehemence of enthusiastic admiration
! It was the tenth annual banGue'
/ given by the club, and it was intended
! that there should be 1000 guests
/ More than that number by 800 came
and an overflow banquet was neces'
sary. The guest of honor was MI Nc
Kinley. He spoke to the toast "Aora-
ham Lincoln" The occasion was not
| able as the first public appearance OF
! Ohios famous son in another STATE
since his return from the governor
| ship to the position of private citizen
| Among those at the speakers table
besides Mr.. Mckinley were the Re
publican governor of Wisconsin and
the Republican senators from Ne
braska and North Carolina. At every
reference to the name of Mckinley or
the word protection" outbursts OF
cheering followed. The address OF the
ex-governor was a Enthusiastically
magnificent piece of oratory.
He said in part:
The question of the continuance or
abandonment of our protective system
has been the one great, overshadowing,
vital question in American politics ever
since Mr.. Cleveland opened the contest
in December, 1887. to which the lament
ed James G Blaine made swift reply
from across the sea- and it will continue
the issue until a truly American policy,
for the good of America, is firmly es-
tablished and perpetuated The fight
will go on, and must go on, until the
American system is everywhere recOg-
nized, until all nations come to under
stand and respect it as distinctly
and all Americans come to honor or
love it as dearly. as they do the Amer
lean flag. God grant the day may soon
come when all partisan contention over
it is forever at an end!
The Republican party only is COM
petent to carry this policy into effect.
Whenever there is anything to be done
for this country, it is to the Republican
party we must look to have it done. We
are not cOntending for any particular
tariff law, or laws, or for any special
schedules or rates, but for the great
principle-the American protective poll
cy-the temporary overthrow of which
has brought distress and ruin to every
part CT our beloved country.
publican tariff law will provide. I can
not tell you. [ cannot tell you what
the rates will be, but they will measure
the difference between American and
European conditions, and will be fully
adequate to protect ourselves from the
invasion of our markets by Oriental
products to the injury of American la
Dor, and will in no case be too low to
protect and eXalt American labor, and
promote and increase American pro-
duction.
'I cannot better answer this grave
question than by an illustration of MI.
Lincoln's. Someone asked him, How
long mans legs ought to be-" He
said: '"Fhat is a very serious ques-
ton and I have given much thought 20
it great many times. Some should
be longer and some shorter; but
want to tell you that a mans legs
ought always TO be long. enough to
reach from his body to the ground
And so [ tell you, my inquiring free
trade friend, that the legs of the next
Republican tariff law will be long
enough to support the American body
polite. sustain it's, public treasury, lift
up our national credit, and uphold the
dignity and independence of American
labor, and the enterprises and Occu-
pations of the American people.
THURsTON's TALK.
Senator John NJ. Thurston of Ne
braska, delivered an eloquent, address
on THE Impending Contest"
He began with the statement that
he stood for everything American as
against all the rest of the world. IF
to defend it's honor with the last drop
of blood; if to insist upon retaining
the glorious hopes of leadership which
oil 10
republics of the new world: if to call
halt on further aggression and do
minion of European powers in affairs
of the western hemisphere, was lingo
ism, then, thank God, he was a jingo
AS soon as the resolution pending in
the senate defining and reasserting
the Monroe doctrine was passed. as it
would be by decisive vote. there was
no nation in all the earth which would
for single moment seriously cOntem-
plate fOrcible opposition to the Amer
lean policy And, nothing in modern
times had done so much to guarantee
the permanent peace of this republic
as the recent outbursts of loyalty and
patriotism from the people of all sec
lions of our common country, who are
at least thoroughly united without re-
gard to party or sect upon the great
American policy Of America for
Senator Thurston closed with
tribute to the guest of the evening,
the great American, William McKin.
ley of Ohio
CHAUNCEY DEPEW.
Mr.. Depew in his Introductory re-
marks said: Celebra tons of the ami
versaries Of heroes and statesmen Of
battlefields and significant events have
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lack the freshness and passion OF
touch and attachment. 1t has always
been the habit of peoples to Defy their
heroes. After few generate they
are stripped of every semblance of
We can reach no plane
where after the lapse of a hundred
years we cannot view George Washing
ton as one of ourselves. He comes to us
so perfect, rounded and complete that
he is devoid of the defects which make
it possible for US to love greatness.
The same is largely true of all the
revolutionary worthless, except that
the Colonial Danes have raised or low
cred BENJAMIN Franklin to the level
Of our vision by deciding that he was
so human that his descendant in the
fourth generation is unworthy of their
Thank heaven we can
still count as one of ourselves. with
NO huiiiOi anu sauhesS, with MS great
ness and his every day LONELINESS.
with his wit and logic, with his gentle
that made him equal to the
best born knight, and his awkward
and ungainly ways that made him one
Of the plain people, our martyred
president, our leader of the people, !
Abralham Lincoln
To-day, for the first time since Lin
coins death, the 18th of February is a
legal holiday in our state of New York
and it is proper that the people should, |
without regard to their party affilia-
ions. celebrate in becoming manner
he birth and the Story and the |