The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
M'KlNLEY TO
STUDENTS.
The President Speaks at the
Academy of Music,
In Honor of the Father of His
Country.
HE : TOUCHES GENTLY
His Own Monetary and Foreign
Policy
And Believes He is Following in
E0o%c%onc
he ; TOUCHES GENTLY
And Believes He is Following in
WashingtOn's Footsteps.

afternoon.
to the residence of Charles c. Harrison,
provost of the University of Pennsylva-
MIA, whose guest the president Will De
during his stay in the city.
The Pennsylvania station and the
streets adjacent thereto were crowded
with people eager to see and greet the
chief magistrate. A double line of po-
licemen kept open a passageway from
the train to the street, and the presi-
dent with his hat in hand, bowed his
acknowledgment of the hand clapplnS
and cheers. Two companies of mount
ed policemen escorted the carriages to
Mr.. HarrisOn's residence. Cheering
crowds greeted the president along the
entire route. Last night an informal
dinner was given in the presidents hon
or by Provost Harrison. Seth Low,
president OF Columbia college and Mrs.
Low. were among those present.
In view of the condition of public af-
fairs, every arrangement had been
made 10 keep the president in touch
with all the departments at Washing
ton and to keep him fully informed OF
developments at Havana. Direct teIe-
graphic communication has been es-
tablished between Washington and Mr..
Harrison's house, and in addition to
this a long distance telephone was
placed at the disposal of the president.
Both the front and rear of Provost
HarrisOn'S residence were guarded by
policemen last night. and in all his
movements while in this city, the chief
executive has been closely followed by
a Gordon of officers.
Today he addressed the students of
the University of Pennsylvania at the
Academy of Music as follows:
Mr.. Provost, officers, and students of
the University of Pennsylvania, ladies
and gentlemen:
We celebrate here as in every part of
our country the birthday of q great
patriot, who assured the beginning of a
great nation. This day belongs to pat
riotism and the people. But in a GER
tain sense the University of Pennsylva-
mia has a special reason for hOnOring
the twenty of February. For
over half century, with ever increas-
ing popularity and public recognition,
you have observed the occasion, either
as holiday or with patriotic exercises,
participated in by faculty and students.
No other American institution OF learn
ing has a prOuder title to the venera-
ton of WashingtOn's memory than this.
whose foundation was laid in colonial
days nearly SO years before Pennsylva-
ma became state; whose progress
was largely due to the activity of
Franklin and other jealous and far
seeing patriots and whose trustees were
on terms of sufficient intimacy with
Washington to congratulate him upon
his election to the presidency and to re
ceiVe from him a notable reply which
has passed into history of the times.
Washington, too, belonged to the
brotherhood of the alumni of this insti-
tuition, having accepted the degree Of
doctor of laws conferred upon him in
1tS3-an honor doubtless the more ap
preciated when he recalled the events
which gave him closer peculiar attach
ment to the city of Philadelphia.
No wonder that your great university
has made the twenty of Febru-
airy its most impressive ceremonial and
devoted its annual exercises to special
tributes to the memory of the first
president of the United States and the
patriotic themes which cluster thickly
about his life and work. 1 rejoice with
you in the day. I rejoice, also, that
throughout this broad land the birth
day of the patriotic leader is faithfully
observed and celebrated with an en-
thusiasm and earnestness which testify
to the virtue and gratitude of the
American people.
1t would not be possible in the COM
paratiVely short time to which these
exercises must today be limited, to fol-
low Washington in his long and dis
tinguished services at the head of the
army and as chief executive of the gov
eminent My purpose is simply to call
to your attention few points in Wash
1ngtOn'S career which have singularly
impressed me and refer to some pas
sages in his writings that seem pecll-
Iarly appropriate for the guidance of
the people who, under our form of gov
eminent, have in their keeping the
well-being of the country.
In its entirety, Washington's public
life is as familiar to the American stu
dent as the history of the United
States.
They are associated in holy and in
dlssOIuble bonds. The one is incom-
plete without the other. Washingtonis
character and achievements have been
a part of the school books of the ma
ton for more than a century and have
moved American youth and American
manhood to aspire to the highest ideals
of responsible citizenship. With endur-
ing fame as a great soldier the world
has recognized his equal ACCOMPLISH
ments IN the paths of statesmanship.
AS a soldier he was peerless in tho
times in which he lived and as a states
man his rank is fixed with the most il
luSlrlOuS IN any country or in any age
Without any pride in Washington we
not infrequently fail to give him credit
Tor his marvellous genius as a cOnstruc-
tive statesman. We are constantly in
danger of losing sight of the sV-eeD and
accurately grasped the problems of re-
mote 1uture and knew how to fOrrnu-
late the best means for their solution.
II was committed to Washington TO
launch our ship of state He had
neIIher precedent nor predecessor to
help him We welded the scattered
ana at times antagOnistic colonies into
an lndeStructible union and inct1lcated
ene lessons OF mutual forbearance and
fraternity which have cemented the
states into still closer bonds of interest
and sympathy
From the hour when WASHINGTON de-
clared IN his Virginia home that he
would raise a thousand mon and eC71i7,
tnem at his own expense to march to
the defense of Boston. he became the
masterful spirit of the continental army
ana the mlghtieSt single factor in the
continents struggle for liberty and in
dependence Apparently without per-
SOnal am b1t1On, Spurning rOVal hOnOrs
when they were suggested to him he
Lulnlled a still more glorious destiny as
AAs Sul0lnS force OF a civilization freer