The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-14

this mighty growing west. 1t is to me
source of pride and satisfaction 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 of the
United States, in whose judgment, wis
dem, courage. virtue fOrtitude, zeal
and patriotism, the fortunes of the
American people are so fully commit
ted. Citizens, he is worthy of your
confidence and love. Support him by
your sympathies and your confidence
Postmaster General Smith said: 81
am very glad, as an humble member
of the presidents cabinet, to meet this
great assemblage of the people OF this
rich and fertile state of Iowa. You are
here to meet and greet the president
of the United States. He is enshrined
in our affection and your admiration,
because you know that he is president
of the whole people. You have given
him your confidence and your support
through the greatest crisis and emer-
gency which this country has faced
since the civil war, because you know
that he is firmly devoted to the welfare
of the entire American people, and has
given his signal earnest purpose to the
promotion of the interests of our whole
country In his further work you will
continue the confidence and support
which you have thus far given him,
and in the settlements which are to
come he will have the support of the
American people as he has had through
the great conflict through which we
have passed"
IOWAS GREATNESS.
Creston. Ia, Oct 13.-At Corning the
president assembled an improvised plat
form and spoke as follows: ut gives
me great pleasure to meet you all, and
be greeted by you as journey through
your state. We have been seeing some
thing in the last 4S hours of the vast
ness and the wealth of this mighty en-
pire of the west and congratulate
you upon the evidence of prosperity
and of progress that have been con-
srantly presented to me. Iowa is not
only a great state in its material pos
sessions, in its farms and its facto-
ries, but it is a great state in influence
of the nation. From the period of your
admission into the American Union as
q state, you have had special influence
on national legislation and national ad-
ninistration, and 1 know of no state
in the country today that has greater
influence in public affairs through SEN
atorS and representatives in congress
than this great state of Iowa
Red Oak Ia, Oct. bon a special
car attached to the Burlington flyer,
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 II. Gear
also made the trip through Iowa.
LOVES THE FLAG.
At Glenwood, Ia, where a great
crowd had congregated, the president
assembled a gaily decorated platform
near the station and said:
MY Fellow Citizens-I am very glad
to meet you and greet you here this
morning. 1 need not say that 1 like
the flag which you carry. Whenever
You put that flag in the hands of the
boys and girls you put patriotism in
their hearts.
There are two strong and marked
phases in the war with Spain. The one
is its heroism and the other it's hui
manity. 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 distinguishing
exhibitions of personal valor and in
trepidity which thrilled all our hearts |
So with the land forces at San Juan
mill and FL Caney and Manila; so with |
the marines at Guantanamo. This is |
the heroic side. The other is the hui
manitarian side. The first ship to en-
ter the .haTbor at Santiago after the
surrender Of the Spanish forces and |
army to General Shafter was ship
laden with food and provisions and
medicines. carrying the Red Cross to
the suffering inhabitants of that land.
And so all through the war we have
mingled with our heroism our splendid
and glorious humanity.
There was no malice in our conflict |
there was not bitterness or resentment
Tod ME 3 4 -
over we treated our foe as generously
as we could have treated a friend. All
this must be inspiring to the American
people. !
1--WE are a great people. We love |
peace, not war, but when we go to war |
we send to it the best and bravest of |
the country, and Iowa in this war, as |
in the great civil war, contributed her !
share of patriots to fight the battles of |
our country. I thank you all and bid /
you good morning" Great applause) |
At Malvern the president greeted a |
large crowd, and said: My Fellow |
CitiZenS-In the moment that I shall /
be permitted to stop with you, l only !
desire to thank you for the cordial re- |
ceptiOn you have given me this morn |
ing. I cannot but recall, as 1 journey |
through the country, the difference be- |
tween conditions now and those of 81 |
years ago. Then we were at war with |
each other. one section of our beloved !
country fighting against the other; |
then the contest was for the preserva- |
ton of the Union, and in that conflict |
we happily triumphed. Thirty-Seven |
years later we are engaged in another |
war, not as a divided country. but as |
a united country, north and south vie
ing 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
embodied in a public treaty. I thank
you, and now present to you the sec
rotary of the treasury, Mr.. Gage"
Mount Pleasant, Ia, Oct. ia great
crowd had gathered at Creston, Ia,
which was reached at o'clock The
population OF the city is only a little
more than 1000 but excursion trains
had been run in from neighboring
points and the result was a mass of
humanity estimated at u. O00 When
the presidential party assembled the
platform provided for them, a band
struck up THE Star Spangled Ban
ner." and from Il, 900 threats cheers
went UP for the president of the United
States.
OUR GREAT PROSPERITY.
Mr. McKinley's speech at this point
was one of the best Of the day, and
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