The herald., 1898-10-14

ti,e secretary Of the treasury. wsth whom
am sure you Will be glad to spend mo-
| ment."
Cages Little Piece
Secretary Gage spoke as follows:
'FrieDds. the proudest title that any
| man on this earth can have, in my opinion,
| 10 the title OF an American c.txen. Second
to that. 1t seems to me. the proudest thing
Is to be O citizen Of this mighty. growing
west. 1t is to me q source OF pride and sat
iefaction that you. the people of this mighty
| west, can be brought into contact. as you
have been brought into contact today, with
this man, the president, whose judgment
| wisdom, courage. virtue. fortitude, zeal
and patriotism, the fortunes Of the Amer
lean people, are SO fully commdttee. He 10
| worthy Of your confidence ana love. Sup
port him by your sympathies and your
| confidence"
| At Corning
At Corning the president ascended an
improvised platform and spoke as follows:
1T gives me great pleasure to meet you
| all and be greeted by you as journey
| through your state.
1--WE have been seeing something in the
last forty-eight hours OF the vastness and
the wealth OF this mighty empire of the
west and congratulate you upon the evil
dences of prosperity and of progress that
have been constantly presented to us. Iowa
| is not only great state In Its material pos
sessions, In it's farms and its factories, but
| 1t is a great state In the influence of the ma
ton. From the period of your admission
into the American union as a state you
have had especial influence on national
legislation and national administration and
! know of no state in the country today
that has greater influence In public affairs
through senators and representatives In
congress than this great state of Iowa.
Il have with me, my fellow citizens, a
m her Of the Rarflnmon who C0nQfttNfa
my cabinet, and I am sure you will all be
glad to see and hear them. ] take pleasure
In presenting to YOU a citizen Of your own
state, the farmer of the administration.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson,.
Mr.. Wilson was received with great en-
thusiasm and made brief address to his
Iowa nedghbors.
Business Friends
| On a special car attached to the Burling-
| ton flyer. a committee Of St. Louis business
men journeyed across Iowa with the presi-
dental party. Among them were John c.
Wilkinson and Richard c. Kerens. The
committee was appointed by the Business
Mems league of st. Louis to accompany
| the president to their city. United States
Senator John H. Gear also made the trip
| through Iowa.
At Glenwood
At Glenwood, Iowa. where great crowd
had congregated, the president ascended
q gaily decorated platform near the station
and said
| MY fellow citizens, 1 am very glad to
meet you and greet you here this morning.
1 need not say that like the flag which you
carry Whenever you put that flag In the
hands of the boys and the girls, you put
patriotism In their hearts There are two
strongly marked phases in the war with
Spain. The one Is its heroism and the
other It's humanity. The individual valor
of the soldier and the sailor has never been
surpassed. Both at Manila and at San
tiago with Dewey's fleet and SIMPSONS
squadron, there were distinguished exhib-
itions of personal valor and interpredity
which thrilled our hearts. So with the land
forces at SanJuan hill. and at Caney and
Manila; so with the marines at Guantana-
mo. This is the heroic side. The other Is
the humanitarian side. The first ship to
enter the harbor of Santiago after the sur
render of the Spanish forces and army to
General Shafter was a ship laden with
food and provisions and medicines. And so
all through the war We have mingled with
our heroism our splendid aSd glorious hu-
manity. There was no malice In our con-
fiict There was no bitterness or resent
ment connected with 1t. and when 1t was
all over we treated our foe as generously
as we could have treated friend. All this
must be inspiring to the American people.
We are a great people. We love peace, not
the best and bravest of the country and
Iowa has contributed her share Of patri-
otto boys to fight the battles Of our coun-
try. thank you all and bid you good
morning" Great applause.)
At Malvern
At Malvern the president greeted large
crowd and said:
my fellow citizens: In the moment that
I shall be permitted to stop with you only
desire to thank you for the reception you
have given me this morning. cannot but
recall, as 1 journey through the country,
the different conditions now and those Of
thirty-seven years ago. Then we were at
war with each other, one section of our be-
loved country fighting against the other:
then the contest was for the preservation
of the Union and In that conflict we happily
triumphed. Thirty-seven years later we
are engaged in another war, not divided
country but as a united country, north
and south. vying with each other In self
Sacrificing devotion to the country. My
fellow countrymen, we are invincible and
having stood together against foreign
foe, we must stand together until every
settlement OF that war shall be finally en-
bodied In a public treaty.
At Creston
A great crowd had gathered at Creston,
Iowa which was reached at o'clock. The
population Of the city is only httle more
than 1000 but excursion trains haQ Deen
run in from neighboring points and the
result was a mass of humanity estimated
at 70 900. When the presidential party as
cended the platform provided for them a
band struck up THE Star Spangled Ban
ner," and from 1900 throats cheers went
up for the president of the United States.
Mr.. McKinley's speech at this point was
one of the best of the day. and here, for the
first time, Secretary Bliss made a few re-
marks. Secretary Gage also spoke briefly.
In the course of his speech President Me-
Kinley said:
II do not know period of our his tory
when the country enjoyed more real and
substant prosperity than 1t does today.
The job hunts the man now, not the man
the job; and where that condition exists,
labor is always better rewarded. In every
one of the great indus ries of the country
we are feeling a degree of prosperity
| which gives new hope 70 all our people
| Not only are the people reasonably PROS
| porous, but the government in which you
are all interested in alike prosperous. We
have had no bad luck lately. Great ap-
| pause) Our financial condition was never
| better than 1t Is now. Our national credit
was never so high as 1t Is now, and the
| people Of the United States were we'll
| enough Off, when the government wanted
| 5000 900 900 on which to conduct the war, to
| subscribe for $40 900, 900, and for bond at
| lower rate of interest than was ever float
| ed by the governme Mt of the United States
| before, and our revenues are not troubling
us any more. We have got along fairly we'll
| thus far, thanks to the patriotism of the
| American DpoDle and tina nltS m ,,o Ior