Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-07
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S ADDRESS
At PHILADELPHIA.

At PHILADELPHIA.
We give below the address deliver
ed by President Mckinley at a ban
quet in Philadelphia last week:
"Ladies and Gentlemen-For the
cordiality of your reception, am in
deed grateful, although from my re-
cent experience in this city, it is not
surprising. A recent visit to your
city gave me an opportunity to feel
the warm heart touch of the people of
Philadelphia and to enjoy their hos
pitality.
st must tell you that from first to
last I have been deeply impressed
with the scenes witnessed in Phila-
delphia today. 1 have seen the re-
markable spectacle of the representa-
tives of all the American republics
with the products of their skill and
their soil in one great warehouse.
The first great convention of these
republics was organized by the di-
plomacy of that splendid American,
James G.. Blaine. Seven years ago
he brought the Governments of this
continent together and taught the
doctrine that general reciprocity of
Information.
"And it was his genius, with that of
many gentlemen [ see around this
board tonight, that originated the Bu-
reau of American Republics located
in the capital city, which has already
done much good, and which I believe
will yet play an important part in our
trade relations with the Govern
ments supporting it. My fellow cit
liens, there is no motive to make a
product if you can't find somebody to
take it. The maker must find the
taker. You will not employ labor to
make product if you cannot find
buyer for that product after labor has
made it.
Gentlemen, I am glad to meet the
representatives of the American re-
publics here tonight. I am glad to
meet representatives of the govern
ments of all the world here tonight.
have met the manufacturers of Phila-
delphia and the State of Pennsyl-
vania; I met you in the days of your
highest prosperity. I cannot avoid
meeting you if would, and I would
not if I could. But let me tell you,
my countrymen, resuscitation will
not be promoted by recrimination.
The distrust of the present will not be
removed by distrust of the future. A
patriot makes better citizen than a
pessimist, and we have got to be pa
tient, for much as we may want to
move out of the old house, we cannot
do it until the new one is finished.
GA tariff law half made is of no
practical use except to indicate that
in little while whole tariff law will
be done, and it is making progress. It
is reaching the end, and when the end
comes we will have confidence and
Industrial activity. Let us keep stout
hearts and steady heads. The coun-
try is not going backward, but for
ward. American energy has not been
destroyed by the storms of the past
1t will yet triumph through wise and
bene6cient legislation.
"Philadelphians have in the past
shown what busy industries and what
employed labor can do to make
great city and contented population.
They do not mean to accept the pres
ent condition as permanent and final.
They will meet embarrassments as
they have bravely met them in the
past and, in the end, will restore the
splendid industries and the magnifi
cient labor to prosperity, and, gentle
men, Philadelphia is but the type of
pluck and courage every
where throughout our great United |
States"
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