The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-11
DIR. DEPEN''S SPEECH
TALKS OF TERRITORIAL ACeUT-
SITION TO CHICAGO RE-
PURLICANS
REFERENCE TO ST. PAUL
One of the Great Cities of the Conn
try That the Eloquent New
Yorker Predicts Will Become a
Reservoir of Trade Whining
Out of the Lines of SectionnIism
Shown in Recent Occurrences.

CHICAGO, Oct. 10.-The annual Chi
cago day celebration of the Hamilton
club was held today in the Auditorium
theater. Chauncey M. Depew, as guest
of the club, was the principal speaker.
and the great hall was packed to suf-
location long before the hour set for
his appearance. Around the galleries
over the boxes and on the great arch
above the stage were hung flags and
bunting, surrounding the silken coat
of-armS of the different states, while
portraits Of military and naval heroes
were everywhere. Just previous to the
Introduction by President Cody Of
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, who spoke
briefly, battle songs and national an
themS were given by a chorus of 200
voices, assisted by the United States
band and the Auditorium organ. At
the conclusion Of Judge Grosscups
speech, Mr.. DepeW was introduced
amid wild applause. He spoke in part
as follows:
whether Cuba continues independent I'M
der our protectorate or comes as l believe It
under our flag, instead of being a burden
1t Will nightly enrich our country and fur
nish market for the surplus of our farms
and our factories. Porto Rico, also. with it's
splendid climate and rich soil, is destined to
invite from our country our people and our
products. The responsibility Of governing
these countries and the Philippines is great
but the policy of governing them by recog-
nizng the manhood of their peoples has new
er been tried. The inhabitants of these ISL
andS will respond to the effort of a great
generous and free people to teach and help
them to govern themselves. In the mean
time their increasing productiveness and the
varying Industries which will be introduced
will make these distant possessions self-sus-
tanning and sources of revenue. Not only
that, but they will be growing markets for
our goods. There is in this trade the opening
of new field for labor and new opportuni-
ties for capital: The congestion Of our mar
ket Will be relieved, causeSt of panics will be
diminished, the fierce competition among our
selves will be lessened, the farmers of the
West and the middle West and of the North
west will find themselves better able to COM
pete in the markets of Europe with the Ar
gentines, Russia, Egypt and India Civiliza-
ton and Christianity and orderly liberty, fol-
loving the nag VIII bestow ,inestimable bene-
hts upon distant semi-barbarous and alien
races. There will be to our own people the
reciprocal benefits which come from a thou
sand millions instead of 10000, 900 of people
wanting the products of our soil, the results
OF our agriculture, the output of our mines
and the surplus of our mills, our factories
and and q our furnaces The growing fric-
appeared. The dude respected on the plains
apd the cowboy cheered in New York are
only evidences of far deeper and most ben
S 81 tbs sentiment Pt Ai9ag with the charge
Will live in song the resistless rush of the
rough riders out over the forts and entrench-
ments on the hill Of San Juan. But that
charge Of the rough riders broke down every
sectional barrier in our country
With the products of our soil and industry
carried over the Atlantic to Europe and over
the Pacific to the Orient, Chicago and St
Paul, st. Louis and Spokane Duluth and Salt
Lake City are no longer the centers of in
terror and isolated interests and opinions
They are the reservoirs and distributors of
the worlds commerce. A powerful navy and
an American merchant marine are as i'm
gortant to them as to New York or San
francisco, or to the Atlantic or Pacific coasts
By the instantaneous contact by telegraph
aud cable of all commercial capitals, they are
to be the ports from which fleets are to sail
over every sea, laden with the products Of
American labor, to bring back the wealth
that makes prosperous and happy home
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