The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-20
THE CHICAGO JUBILEE.
One Brief CLEAN of Sunshine on
the Great Parade,
A NOTABLE JUBILEE BANQUET.


thrown upon the ceremonies of the
peace jubilee. 1t was a fleeting, short
lived burst of third class sunshine, but
it fell upon the presidents reviewing
stand just as the head of the great
parade was approaching yesterday.
Chicago has seen many parades greater
than that of yesterday but she never
has seen one that pleased it's people
better. Notwithstanding the most
elaborate arrangements of the police
department there were times when the
crowd was too great for the police to
handle, and at many places the crush
at times was dangerous The greet
ings extended to President Mckinley
as his carriage passed to the reviewing
stand were enthusiastic to the extreme,
as were the plaudits showered upon
| General Miles and General Shafter as
| they passed through the streets.
For the third time since the COM
mencement the jubilee festivities were
shifted last night to the interior of the
| Auditorium and the third and last
scene to be enacted within the great
hall was the most brilliant beautiful
and successful of them all. 1t was the
great national jubilee peace banquet
rendered to the president Of the United
| States and other distinguished guests
| by citizens of Chicago. No similar
! event ever held within the Auditorium
surpassed in brilliancy and simple ele-
| gance the banquet of last night. No
similar event ever held there was more
successfully managed or brought to a
more triumphant conclusion.
Twelve hundred guests among them
men prominent in all branches Of busi-
ness, science, arts, men of brilliant rec
ord upon the sea, and men famed for
deeds Of arms done on shore, were
standing by their chairs when a tap
| from the gavel of Franklin MacNeagh
the presiding officer. announced the ap-
! proach of President Mckinley, The
orchestra struck up Hail to the Chief"
and as the strains of the old march
were heard the president, attended by
! the jubilee reception committee, came
down the center aisle, bowling right and
left in acknowledgment of the applause
his presence evoked. He was escorted
to his seat at the west end of the hall,
| and as he took his seat the 1900 guests
followed his example only to rise an
instant later while DR.. Frank Crane
delivered a short and eloquent invoca-
tion. Then for two hours the material
wants of 1,2OO men received close and
! caretul attention.
At 10 o'clock the preliminary portion
of the banquet having been disposed Of,
a rap from the gavel of Chairman Mac
Veagh called the attention Of the
guests. Mr. MacVeagh in the course of
his Introductory remarks said:
"If the evolution of democracy con-
tinues, and who does not believe that
it will, new spirit must possess the
lives of the nations. 1t seems clear to
me that our own nation is already
touched by a larger conception of ma
tional life. Democracy has seriously
begun to rule humanity, and the il
! Eliminating truth is that democracy's
ideals are not the ideals of isolation.
Its concern is mankind. Our nation
| will, I believe, be foremost in illustrat-
ing the duties and the ambitions-the
aspirations-of the democratic era"
"Our country" was the toast to which
President Mckinley was called upon to
respond. It was several minutes before
the cheering subsided sufficiently to all
low the presidents voice to be heard
and when he was afforded an oppor-
tunity his utterances were greeted with
most vociferous applause. In the course
of his address he said:
THE war has put upon the nation
| grave ItSJDllSlpllllltS 1 IltlI tNltul w ciS
not anticipated and could not have been
well foreseen. We cannot avoid the Sc
rious questions which have been brought
home to us by the achievements of our
arms on land and sea. We are bound
in conscience to keep and perform the
covenants which the war has sacredly
sealed with mankind. Accepting war
for humanitys sake, we must accept
all obligations which the war in duty
and honor imposed upon us. The splen-
did victories we have achieved would
be our eternal shame and not our ever
lasting glory if they led to the weak
ening Of our original lofty purpose.
THE war with Spain was undertaken
not that the United States should in
crease its territory but that oppression
at our very doors should be stopped
This noble sentiment must continue tC
animate us, and we must give to the
world the full demonstration of ouI
purpose.
at is not within the power of mar
to foretell the future and to solve un-
erringly its mighty problems Looking
backward we can see now the hand OF
destiny builded for us and assigned us
tasks whose full meaning was not APP
pretended even by the wisest states
| men of their times. Our colonial an
cestors did not enter upon their war
originally for independence. Abraham
Lincoln did not start out to free the
slaves but to save the Union. The wal
with Spain was not Of our seeking, and
some of its consequences may not be to
our liking.
! Territorial expansion is not alone
and always necessary to national ad,
vanCement There must be a constant
movement toward a higher and nobleI
! civilization, a civilization that shal
make its conquests without resort t,
: war and achieve its greatest victories
pursuing the arts of peace. In ou
present situation duty, and duty alone
should prescribe the boundary Of ou
responsibilities and the scope Of ou
undertakings.
1.-THE final determination of our pun
poses waits the action of the eIhinen
men who are charged by the executiv
with the making of the treaty of peace
and that of the senate of the Unite
States, which by our constitution mus
ratify and confirm it, We all hope an
pray that the confirmation of peace vii
be as just and as humane as the con
| dition and consummation of the war
The men of the south who have de
livered addresses during the jubile
have won golden opinions. The speecl
OF Judge speer, OF Georgia, at the open
ing meeting on Tuesday was a revela
tiOn to those who had never hearC