The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-16

prets the hearty demonstration here Nit
messed and is the patriotic refrain 4 an
sections and Of all lovers OF the Reupiic.
Reunited One country again "a one
country forever! Proclaim it from Ae press
and pulpit. Teach It in the schQls. write
it across the skies. The world ser ana Ieeis
1t. 1t cheers every heart, Nortf ana SOUTH
and brightens the life of evfy American
home. Let nothing ever straA II again
AT peace with all the forld ana with
each other, what can stag IN the pathway
of our progress and proserlty
LONG AND S4AFTER.
| Hon. John D. Long. seretary of the navy,
| followed His effort VS. the happiest Of the
evening. He was intoduced by Mr.. Howell
to respond to the yast. THE Navy, but
! his remarks for tie first fifteen minutes
were on almost very other subject than
that assigned. twas nearly II o'clock when
| Secretary Long Ras accorded the floor, and,
I, owing to the requent and vociferous ap-
| plause which interrupted him, it was long
! after that bodr before he had reached the
/ end of his address. The secretary extended
/ the greeting of the old Commonwealth of
| Massachusetts to Tire State of Georgia, and
! said that as a fellov-citiZen Of the Old Col
| ony Stzte he greeted the fellow-citizens of
| the STATE of Geogia. He referred humor-
ously to everybody from George Washing
| ton down to the present day, and paid high
tribute to the american blue Jacket, who,
he said, was the typical American citizen.
Referring to the famous dispatch to Ad-
miral Dewey to sail from Hong-Kong to
meet and capture or destroy the Spanish
fleet at Manila, the speaker said: Now,
about that dispatch: On the Sunday after
war was declared and after the dispatch
had been sent to Admiral Dewey, I took it
over to the President and asked his permis-
sion to send it to Dewey He, of course,
approved, and said it was in my depart
ment Further regarding that dispatch,
don't know who wrote it. 1t was handed me
by Commander Crowninshield, of the Navi-
cation Department, and l don't think he
knew who wrote it. Coming right down to
the facts, it was probably written by some
clerk in his department, but, any way, 1t
was sent, and you all know the rest
The speaker then referred in a happy vein
to General Wheeler, Lieutenant Hobson and
to the members of the feet which for SO
many long and weary days watched the
harbor at Santiago. He related an inci-
dent of the day which set the tables in an
uproar During the day, while the parade
was making its way to Exposition Park, he
said a grizzled citizen from a county near
Atlanta had rushed through the throng,
passing the President, passing the
postmaster general, who might have
given him a position, and reaching
out his hand to him (the secretary of the
navy, said: MIR. President, want to shake
your hand" This, said the secretary, was
no detraction to the President. it merely de-
noted the timber of which the President was
made.
Gen. William r. Shafter responded to the
toast, "The Army He said, in part: "Too
glowing a tribute cannot be paid to the no
BILE little army which contributed so freely
the lives of its best men to bring about this
happy issue. The bulk and the flower of
our regular army composed the Santiago ex-
pedtion. Words cannot graphically depict
the obstacles overcome, the suffering en-
dured and the hardships undergone. If
you could have seen, as have, officers and
men alike pushing from day to day on to
Santiago through the tropical jungles, un-
der a tropical sum- wet with tropical rains,
exposed TO unknown diseases. and only the
coarsest fare to eat you would agree with
me that the typical hero is the American
regular. All this he bore uncomplainingly-
it was his duty; questioning, no falter-
ing; and this it is that bore him on to vic
| tory. Such is the soldier of the American
army of to-day. He is entitled to all the
love and gratitude that great and gen.
erous nation can bestow upon him"
THE NEW UNION.
Hon. George r. Peck. of Chicago. on ris-
ing to respond to the toast, THE New
Union,'' was loudly applauded States
| manship does not require absolute fore
Knowledge he said, ''but it does require
the rare ability to meet conditions as they
arise. When Dewey sailed into the bay he
readjusted in an hour the policies and aims
| of a century. He changed the balance and
| equilibrium of nations, and served notice
| with every shot he fired that henceforth the
| United States must be counted. We have
| entered new fields, as advancing nations al
ways do; we have assumed new duties, as
| living nations always must. 1t may, indeed,
| be true that our fathers did not write out
| ON parchment what must be done if, by the
| fortunes of war; our flag should be carried
| to islands and seas remote. But gentle
| men, the flag cannot come down. The in
| stitutions and the polity of a free republic
| are equal to new conditions or they are
| worthless. A nation that cannot keep pace
| with what it's own arms have accomplished
| is already catalogued with the incapable and
the degenerate. The new Union, which war
has welded more firmly together, summons
us and leads us forward. 1t does not invite
| responsibilities nor shrink from them. His
| tory has been busy in these last eventful
months, interfusing all the elements Of our
| national life. so that the parts forget that
| they are parts and remember only an inds-
| soluble, indivisble, indestructible Union"
The Hon. Stephen O'Meara, editor of the
Boston Journal, responded to the toast,
Santiago, the Plymouth Rock of Cuban
| Freedom
SECRETARY CAGES ADDRESS.
| Hon. Lyman ]. Gage, secretary of the
| treasury, delivered a concise and polished
| speech in reply to the toast. 'IIow the Peo-
| PIE Paid the Bill" Like those who preceded
him, the secretarys words were warmly ap-
| plauded. lie said, in part:
| There are two forms or funds of capital
| existing at once in every well developed
| community. The one is engaged in prose-
| cutting industry. BY it's use crops are sown,
| cultivated, harvested and moved to market
| Through its use factories are built, raw ma
| terials bought, and, by the aid of multiplied
/ hands employed, are transformed into a
| thousand kinds of finished products for So
| cial needs. This fund of capital cannot be
seriously diverted by severe taxation with
| out impairing the force which energizes the
| industrial system. There is, however, an
other fund not thus engaged. This fund is
| under the control of the many thousands
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