The San Francisco call., 1898-10-19
Formal Opening of Cbicogo's Great Jubilee With Impressive
 CeremoDies.
PresideDt Mckinley, Archbishop IreloDd and Others EIoquenty Tell of tbe War in
 BeboIf of HuDonity
Special Dispatch to The Call.

S The news6oys cry ed ne% oniy SPaeaS one
 "He was my son! What were a thousand
 It was Wellington who said, Take my word for it, If you had seen but one day of war you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again." It was Napoleon who said. ''The sight of a battlefield after the fight is enough te inspire princes with love of sight 1 thank the good God that thy ghastly specter stands no longer. upon countrymen in America or of my fellow beings in distant Andalusia. When, ask heights of reason and of religion that war shall be impossible and stories of battle fields but the saddening echoes or primi- tive ages of the race?
 Yet a just and necessary war Is holy;
 the men who at their country's call en-
 gage In such war are the country s heroes to whom must be given unStinted gratitude and unsttnted praise. The sword in their hands is the emblem of self
 sacrifice and of valor; the flag which bids them pour out in oblation to purest patriotism the life-blood of their hearts; the shroud which spreads over the dead of the battlefield Is the mantle of fame and of glory.
 Judge Emory Speer of Georgia fol- lowed with the closing address. At the conclusion of Judge Speer's address, which concluded the programme, there were loud calls of Mckinley, McKin- ley!" The President had risen and was just about to leave the box, but he turned and came back to the front. He waited for a moment until ex-Governor Richard Ogelsby brought the assem- blaze to something resembling quiet. Then the President spoke as follows:
 My fellow citizens: I have been deeply moved by this demonstration. I have been deeply touched by the words of pat riOtism that have been uttered by dis
 inguished gentlemen so eloquently, in us to know that this has never ceased to be a war of humanity. The last ship that went out of the harbor of Havana before war was declared was an Ameri- people of Cuba supplies furnished by American charity. (Applause) And the tiago was another American ship bearing food supplies to the suffering Cubans. lApplausel And I am sure it is the uni justice and humanity and civilization shall characterize the final settlement of peace, as they have distinguished the progress of the war. (Applause.)
 My countrymen. the currents of des- tiny flow through the hearts of the peo. pie. Who will check them, who will the movements of men. planned and designed by the master of men, will never be interrupted by the American people.
 During the afternoon five meetings were held in different parts of the city. A large meeting at Studebaker Hall was addressed by Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis and President Cyrus Northrup of the University of Chicago. At the Columbia Theater General Miles, General Henry M DuffieId of Detroit and Booker T. Washington addressed an audience limited only by the size of the theater.
 At the First Regiment Armory Secre- tary James Wilson and Mayor David $. Rose of Milwaukee comprised the list of speakers. Samuel Gompers spoke at the Second Regiment Armory and Charles Emory Smith delivered an ad- dress at North Side Turner Hall. The public schools, all of which were pro- fusely decorated, devoted the day to jubilee exercises and to hearing ad- dresses by prominent educators and or ators.