The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-12-20
PEACE JUBILEE.
PRESIDENT and Distinguished Visitors
Dined by Piedmont Driving Club.
Mchinley Delivers Patriotic Address
RESOLUTIONS Introduced in the Georgia
Legislature Thanking the Pres
ident for His Speech.

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 15.-The second
day of the Atlanta peace jubilee open
ed auspiciously. The temperature had
relaxed its rigor considerably and
warmth In the rays of the sun was
early perceptible. AS on Wednesday
the crowds were enormous, excursion
trains arriving at short intervals from
all directions.
The feature of the day was the civic
and military parade, which passed
through the streets during the after
noon. Starting from the corner of
Garnat and Whitehall streets at noon,
the procession proceeded to Exposition
park, over Alabama, Broad, Marietta
and Peachtree streets. The parade
consisted of ten divisions under COM
mand of Grand Marshal A. j. West.
The president and other distinguished
guests in carriages were at the head of
the pageant.
After the parade had passed the re-
viewing stand the president and the
other guests of the city were driven to
Piedmont park where they. were the
guests of the Piedmont Driving club at
an elaborate luncheon.
The president, IN an address, said in
part:
Other parts of the country have had their
public thanksgiving and jubilees in honor of
the historic events of the past year, but no.
where has there been greater rejoicing than
among the people here, the gathered represen-
tatives of the south. 1 congratulate them upon
their accurate observation of events which
enabled them to fix a date which insured them
the privilege of being the first
to celebrate the signing of the
treaty of peace by the American and
Spanish commissioners. Under hostile fire on
foreign soil, fighting in common cause, the
memory of old disagreements has faded into
history. From camp and campaign there come
the magic healing which has closed ancient
wounds and effaced their scars. For this result
every American patriot will forever rejoice. 1t
is no small indemnity for the cost of the war.
This government. has proved itself invincible
in the recent war, and out of it has come ma
$ ton which will remain indivisible for ever
more. No worther contributions have been
made in pa triotism and in men than by the
people of these southern states. When at last
the opportunity came they were eager to
meet it, and with promptness responded
to the call of country. Entrusted with
the able leadership of men dear to them
who had marched with their fathers, under an
other flag. now fighting under the old flag
again, they have gloriously helped to defend
its spotless folds and added new luster to its
shining stars That flag has been planted in
symbol of liberty and law. or peace and
progress. Who will withdraw from the people
over whom it floats its protecting folds? Who
will haul it down:
We could have avoided all the difficulties
that lies across the pathway of the nation if
few months ago we had coldly ignored the
piteous appeals of the starving and oppressed
inhabitants of Cuba. If we had blinded our
selves to the conditions so near our shores anC
turned Il deaf ear to our suffering neighborS
the issue of territorial expansion in the An
titles and the East Indies would not have beer
raised.
But could we have justified such coIse? 1:
there any one who would now declare another
to have been the better course? With less hui
mainly and less courage on our part. the Span
ish flag, instead of the Stars and Strips, woulC
still be floating at Cavite, at Ponce and a
Santiago, and chance in the race of life
would be wanting to millions of human being
who to- day call this nation noble, and who,
trust will live to call it blessed
Thus far we have done our supreme duty
Shall we now, when the victory won in war i
written in the treaty of peace, and the civilized
world applauds and waits in expectation, turf
timidly away from the duties imposed upol
the country By its own great deeds? AM
when the mists fade and we see with cleare
vision, may we not go forth rejoicing in
strength which has been employed solely 70
humanity and always been tempered witt
justice and mercy. confident in our ability I
meet the exigences which await us. becaus
confident that our course is one of duty an
our cause that of right