The times., 1898-10-19

the effect unsightly They looked at the
ludicrous arches on the various street
cornerstone completed and others total
wrecks-and they looked at the big build
ing in which President Mckinley was be-
ing officially welcomed by Mayor Harri-
son. And that is about all they saw. The
flags tapped 1dismally in the rain. the
pictures of war heroes on the arches
were stormbeaten and unattractive, the
bunting was badly smudged with coal.
SCOT. and CRIME from the buildings upon
which 1t was used as decoration. The
President kept well indoors. The streets
ran rivulets of mud, the thousands in the
jOstling crowd jabbed each other with
umbrellas, and everybody was unpleas-
antly moist. The program was carried
out. the several exercises in the larger
halls and public schools being quite in
teresting. Tonight the grand jubilee ball
at the Auditorium and the blue jackets
ball were brilliant affairs. About $25,OOO
was realized for the families of soldiers
and sailors.
1t may be said the city has, with a
fair degree of unanimity, cast aside the
pretense that in her peace jubilee she was
celebrating a peace that is not yet def
nitely accomplished. Since the crowds in at
tendance are assured, people and public
prints make bold to show that their joy
over the present occasion is based upon
the victories of war and their prospective
fruits rather than upon the return of
peace Even Sunday evening the people
in the Auditorium applauded first and ev-
cry time the references to the heroes OF
the war. the battles, and the prophecies
OF what the country would gain in ma
terial resources and prestige. Little was
said of peace and few enlargements upon
fits blessings received visible or audible
plaudits. This morning the Tribune said:
The Change in Policy
THE great peace jubilee now being cale-
brated in Chicago is not so much
an expression of joy over the
cessation of hostilities as it is an
outpouring of enthusiasm over
momentous change in American interna-
tional policy. There has been a new
awakening of the people, arousing them
TO a sense of their interests and duties in
the great round world. The American ma
tion has suddenly discovered its giant
strength and its noble civilizinS mission.
This is the real significance of the jubi-
lee
At today's meeting in the Auditorium.
the occasion of President McKinley's for
NAL welcome to the city, the trend of pop
ular feeling and opinion was the same. as
indicated in the speeches from the plat
form and manifested by the auditors who
crowded the house. On the platform the
clergy. judiciary, and body civic were
represented by spokesmen of similar
views, and the mixed audience found the
same points to indorse by applause in all
their addresses.
Archbishop IreinnG's Address
After Chairman Truax, George r. PECK.
and Mayor Harrison had spoken. Arcn-
bishop Ireland voiced a welcome to peace
and bade farewell to horrible war. and
then pointed out wars great achieve
ments. 1t was in these last that he moved
the audience to applaud him with energy.
and he brought an eloquent grafton TO a
close with an apostrophe to his belo-ed
country. In part he said:
welcome to America, sweet beloved
peace; welcome TO America, honored,
glorious victory o, peace, thou art
heavens gift to men, War. how dread
full thou art! l shall not, indeed. declare
thee to be immoral, ever unnecessary.
ever accursed. no. / shall so arraign
TO the whole past history of nations. to
the whole past history of my own
America. But that thou art ever dread
full, ever barbarous shall not deny
when Shall War he Impossible.
War, be thou gone from my souls
sight. ! thank the good God that thy
CHASTITY specter stands no longer on the
thresholds of the homes of my fellow
countrymen in America, or of my fellow
beings in distant Andalusia When, l
ask heaven, shall humanity rise to such
heights of reason and of religion that
war shall be impossible and stories of
battlefelds be but the saddening echoes
of primitive ages of the race?
War indeed, is dreadful: but let IT
come The sky may fall. but let Justice
be done. War is no longer a reputation
of peace, but the means to peace-to the
sole peace a self-sacrifcing people may
enjoy-peace with honor. What If, In this
bewildering rush of a nation TO arms. one
department or another of the national
Administration was unable to put, in a
moment. its hand upon all the details
which a thoroughly rounded equipment
required?
The wonder is that the things that
were done could at all have been done.
and that what was done so quickly could
have been done so well. The wonder is
military forces was possible, even to
America.
Greatness Revealed by the War.
1.-The consciousness of what she is and
what she may be has come to America.
She knows that she is a great nation.
The elements of greatness were not i'm
parted by the war, but they We're re-
Vealed to her by the war, and their
vitality and their significance were in
creased through the war America is too
great to be isolated from the world
around her and beyond her. She is a
world power. to whom no world interest
is alien, whose voice reaches afar, whose
spirit travels across seas and mountain
ranges to most distant continents and
islands and. with America, goes far and
wide, what America in hers grandest
ideal epresents-democracy and liberty,
a government of the people, by the peo-
pie for the people.
This is Americanism, more than
American territory, American ship
ping, or American soldiery Where this
grandest ideal of American life is not
held supreme. America has not reached
Where this ideal is supreme America
reigns. The vital significance of Ameri.
cas- triumphs is not understood unless
by these triumphs is understood the tri.
umph of democracy and of liberty.
An Apostrophc to America.