Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-10-13

OMAHA, Oct. 13.-Not one feature
was lacking to make the peace jubilee
at the trans Mississippi exposition an
| unprecedented success. The weather
was delightful, an ideal October day.
The president of the United States
has been kept busy acknowledging the
! most enthusiastic greetings from his
western constituents.
Admissions numbered abont 1876, 900.
President Mckinney, in the course of
his speech, thanked the people of Omaha
for his welcome and extended greeting
to Omaha, the state of Nebraska and to
the people of all the states of the trans
Mississippi group.
zone of the great laws of life is prog
ress, and nowhere have the principles of
this law been so strikingly illustrated
as IN the United States. A century and
decade of our national life have turned
doubt into conviction; changed expert
ment into demonstration; revolutionized
old methods and won new triumphs
which have challenged the attention of
the world. This is true not only of the
accumulation of material wealth and
advance III education, science, inven-
ton and manufactures, but above all in
the opportunities to the people for their
own elevation, which have been Sc
cured by wise free government.
Hitherto in peace and in war, with
additions to our territory and slight
changes in our laws. we have steadily
enforced the spirit of the constitution
secured to us by the noble self sacrifice
and far-seeing sagacity of our ances-
tors. We have avoided the temptations
of conquest in the spirit of gain. With
an increasing love for our institutions
and an abiding faith in their stability,
we have made the triumphs of our sys-
tenn of government in the progress and
prosperity of our people an inspiration
to the whole human race. Confronted
at this moment by new and grave
problems, we must recognize that their
solution will effect not ourselves alone,
but others of the family of nations.
Gin this age of frequent interchange
and mutual dependency, we cannot
shlrk our international responsibilities if
we would; they must be met with cour-
age and wisdom and we must follow
duty even if the desire opposes. No do,
liberation can be too mature or self con.
| troll too constant in this solemn hour OF
our history. We must avoid the temp
tation of undue aggression and aim tC
secure only such results as will pro-
mote our own and the general good"
At another point he said:
son April 25, for the first time fol-
more than a generation, the United
States sounded the call to arms. The
banners of war were unfurled; the best
and bravest from every section re.
sponded; mighty army was enrolled
-, sol
other in patriotic devotion; science was
invoked to furnish it's most effective
weapons; factories were rushed to sup.
ply equipments; the youth and the vet.
eran joined in freely offering their ser.
vices to the country; volunteers and
regulars and all the people rallied to the
support of the republic.
He then spoke of what we had done
with small navy. Although having q
small standing army, we soon modified
great force, and $50, 900, 900 was voted
for national defense without debate OF
division, q mere indication of oul
mighty reserve power. Then he said
IN part1
"Butif this is true of the beginning
of the war what shall we say of it now,
with hostilities suspended and peace
near at hand, as we fervently hope
Matchless in its results; uneuualed in
its.completeness and the quick success
ion with which victory followed vic
tory; attained earlier than it was be.
lieved TO be possible, so comprehensive
in its sweep that every thoughtful man
feels the weight of it's responsibility
which has been SO suddenly thrust
upon us, and above all and beyond all
the valor of the American army and the
bravery of the American navy and the
majesty of the American name stand
forth in unsullied glory, while the hu.
manity of our purposes and the mag
nanimity of our conduct have given te
war, always horrible, touches of noble
generosity, Christian sympathy an6
charity, and examples of human gran,
deur which can never be lost to man
kind.
1.-The heroes of Manila and Santiago
and Porto Rico have made immortal
history. They are worthy successors
and> descendants of Washington anC
Greene, of Paul Jones, Decatur ant
Hull, and of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan
and Logan; of Farragut, Porter ant
Gushing, and of Lee, jackson and Long
street. New names stand out on the
honor roll of the nations great mel
and with them unnamed stand the he
roes of the trenches and forecastle, in
vincible in battle and accomplishing il
| death"
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