The record-union., 1898-10-11

CHICAGO, Oct. 1O-The annual
chicago Day celebration of the Hamil-
ton Club was held to-day in the Audi
tor1um Theater. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
as guest of the club, was the principal
speaker and the great hall was packed
TO suffocation long before the hour set
for his appearance. Just previous TO
the introduction by President Cody of
Judge Peter S. Grosscup. who spoke
briefly, battle songs and national an
thems We're given by q chorus of 200
voices, assisted by the United States
Marine Band and the Auditorium or
gan.
AT the conclusion of Judge Gross
cups speech. MIR. Depew was introduced
amid wild applause. He spoke in part
as follows:
For over fifty years American
statesmen gTappled with, but failed TO
solve, the problems of Cuba, Hawaii
and canal through the Nicaraguan
lsthmuS. Hawaii seemed essential for
the protection of our Pacific Coast. and
| Cuba, by it's frightful msgovernment
under Spanish rule, enlisted our SYM
pathy and aroused our indignation.
| The irreconcilable divisions in Demo-
cratic Cabinets made action on the part
! of the Government either for the ac-
! QUESTION of Hawaii or for peace and
humanity in Cuba absolutely impossi-
| BILE. The responsibility of governing
these countries and the Philippines is
| great but the policy of governing them
| by recognizing the manhood of their
! peoples has never been tried The in
| habitants of these islands will respond
to the efforts of a great, generous and
| free people to teach them and help
| them to govern themselves. In the
meantime their increasing productive
ness and the varying industries which
| will be introduced, make these distant
possessions self-sustaining and sources
of revenues. Not only that. but they
| will be the growing markets for our
goods. a
Every one who is familiar with the
Pacific Coast appreC' ates the limita-
tions which are placed upon it's oppor-
tunitieS by it's distance from the mar
kets and difficulties of expense of trans
portation. The mountains of Oregon
and Washington are full of coal and
iron, but they cannot compete with the
coal and iron east of the Rocky Noun
tains. California raises 200000O
bushels of wheat a year, but it's mar
ket is too distance for profit.
We become masters of the Philip
pines, and having the harbor for our
men-ofWar and merchant vessels at
Manila will be in striking distance of
China at the moment when the ola
empire is crumbling to- pieces.
The open market of Japan and the
opening of China will absorb not only
all the wheat now grown upon the
Pacific Coast, but all it can possibly
produce. It's markets viii be so great
for our steel rails, our machinery and
electrical appliances and our agricult-
ural implements that with a merchant
marine on the Pacific, Oregon, Wash
ington and California will in Il few
years be among the richest and most
productive States of the Union.
There is III the trade opening of a
new field for labor and new oppor-
tunities for capital. The congestion of
our market will be relieved, causes of
panics will be diminished, the fierce
competition among ourselves will be
lessened, the farmers of the West and
the Middle West and of the Northwest
will find themselves better able to COM
pelt liz the mar OF Europe with the
ArgentineS, Russia, Egypt and India
The wheat of the Pacific Coast will go
to the Orient instead of Liverpool. Civ
ilization and Christianity and orderly
liberty following the flag will bestow
inestimable benefits upon distant semi
barbarous and alien races. There will
be to our people reciprocal benefits
which come from a thousand millions
instead of 100000 of people wanting
the products of our soil, the results OF
of agriculture, the output of our mines
and the surplus of our mills, our fac
tories and our furnaces"
The celebration concluded this even
ing with a banquet at the Auditorium
Hotel at which covers for 500 We're
laid. Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom re-
sponded TO the toast Hawaii, United
States of America"
Though Mr. Cullom did not discuss
the kind of legislation which the Ha-
waiian Commission, of which he is a
member, will recommend to Congress,
he defended the policy of territorial ex-
pansion and in this connection gave
significant praise to the colonial sys-
tenn of Great Britain.