Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-28

New YORK, January zf.-Ine tnlrd
annual banquet of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers of the Uni
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, was one
of the largest and most elaborate at
fairs ever given in this city. One
thousand guests were at the table.
President Mckinley was quartered in
THE Royal Chambers"
Later he appeared in the re-
ception room, where he held levee
for more than an hour.
President Mckinley, with the COM
mittee of seventysiX, marched into
the banquet hall, the band playing
Hail to the Chief
1t was o'clock when Warner Miller
raped for order He then announced
that Rev. R. S. Macarthur would in
woke a blessing.
At 1880 o'clock Warner Miller
raped for order, then introduced The
odore C. Search, President Of the AS
sociation, who spoke briefly.
The widest enthusiasm prevailed
when President Mckinley was intro
duced Men stood in their seats, wo-
men in the boxes waved their hand
kerchiefs and the uproar drowned the
speakers voice The cheering and
clapping of hands were redoubled when
a toast was drunk to the President.
President Mckinley spoke slowly
and was plainly heard in every portion
of the hall. His reference to the cold
day in Cincinnati, January %, 1895,
was received with laughter, which
broadened into a perfect roar when he
spoke of the extension of business in
stead of notes. President Mckinley
said:
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
Mr.. POSTMASTER, Members Of the
National Association OF Manufacturers
and Guests:
For the cordial character of this
greeting / return my thanks. ne
genuineness of your welcome is full
compensation for having left Washing
ton at an unusually busy season IN
order to participate in this interesting
meeting.
| scarcely need remind you that we
do not meet as strangers. Neither your
business organization nor your social
reunions are altogether unfamiliar to
me. | have been with you before, not
as a guest as now; but, rather in the
capacity of host | recall that as Gov
ernor of the State of Ohio, it was my
pleasure to welcome you to the city
of Cincinnati on January ", 1893, at
the initial convention of the Manu-
facturers' Association. | well remem-
Der the occasion 1t was cold day.
You had lost everything but your
pluck, or thought you had. Courage
was the only friend your grief could
call it's own. | note with satisfaction
your improved appearance now You
are more cheerful in countenance, more
buoyant in spirits, more hopeful III
manner and more confident IN pur-
pose Then, there are more OF you
here than there were at your first
meeting. Distances are, of course, the
same. but travelling has been resumed
Your speeches and resolutions at
that convention were directed mainly
to the question of how to regain what
you had lost in the previous years, or
if that was found impossible, then how
to stop further loss. But your object
now. as | gather it, is to go out and
possess what you have never had be-
fore You want to extend not your
notes, but your business. | sympa-
thiZe with your purposes; | am IN 1ull
accord with your intentions now.
ventured to say at the gathering re-
ferred to. as reported in your publish
ed proceedings, speaking both for
your encouragement and from pro-
found conviction:
WHAT HE SAID THEN.
This great country cannot be per-
manently kept in a state of relapse.
believe we will re-occupy the field
temporarily lost to us and go out to
peaceful conquest of new and greater
fields Of trade and commerce. The re-
covery will come slowly, perhaps, but
it will come. and N~len it does, we will
be steadier and will better know how
to avoid exposure hereafter
| have abated none of the faith
then expressed and you seem to have
regained yours
National policies can encourage in
dustry and commerce, but it remains
for the people to project and carry
them on. If these policies stimulate
industrial development and energy,
the people can be safely trusted to do
the rest The government however,
is restricted in its power to promote
Industry 1t can aid commerce, but
cannot create it. 1t can widen and
deepen its rivers, improve its harbors
and develop its great natural water
ways but the ships to sail and the
traffic to carry, the people must sup
ply. The government can raise reve-
nues by taxation in such way as will
discriminate in favor of domestic en-
terprise, but it cannot establish them.
It can make commercial treaties, open
ing to our manufacturers and agri-
culturists the ports of other nations.
1t can enter into reciprocal arrange
ments to exchange our products for
those of other countries. 1t can aid
our merchant marine by encouraging
our people
TO BUILD SHIPS OF COMMERCE.
1t car assist in every lawful manner
private enterprise to unite the two
oceans with a great canal. 1t can do
all these things and ought to do them;
but, with all this accomplished the re-