The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-28
President Mckinley Talks Well
at Atlanta, Ga.
NO MORE SECTIONAL TIMES
Cordial Feeling Between North and
South-The ConfederatelDead
: On Territorial Expansion.

ATLANTA. Ga, Dec 1t.-President
Mckinley, the members OF the Cabinet
ana party Of prominent military men
reached Atlanta this morning. They
came TO participate in the peace jubilee
10 be held here. At noon the President
addressed members of the Georgia Leg
islature now in session. In the course
OF his speech the President said: Sec
tlonaI lines no longer mar the map of
th2 United States. Sectional feeling no
longer holds back the love we bear
each other Fraternity is the national
anthem, sung by a chorus of forty-five
States and Territories at home and be-
yond the seas. The union is once more
the common atlas of our love and 10y
atty, our devotion and sacrifice Every
soldiers grave made during our un-
fortunate civil war is tribute to
American valor-and while when those
graves We're made we differed widely
about the future of this Government
the differences Were long ago settled
! by the arbitrament of arms, and the
time now comes in the evolution of
sentiment and feeling under the Prov
idence Of God, when in the spirit of
| fraternity, we share with you in the
! care OF the graves of Confederate SOL
dierS.
The cordial feelings which now hap
PLY exist between the North and South
prompts this gracious act, and if it
needed further justification it is found
in the gallant loyalty to the union and
the flag so conspicuously shown in the
year just passed by the sons and grand
sons of those heroic dead.
: The PraSjdppf,S IA
Confederate dead was greeted with the
widest applause.
ATLANTA, Ca, Dec 15.-In the
course of his speech today, President
Mckinley said:
The majority of the people of this
country, ] fully believe, have made up
their minds to retain all of those coun-
tries that the providence of God has
delivered into our hands. The Ameri-
can people are not fools, TO be misled
nor are they towards, to be scared by
such statements. This is not a matter
OF politics, but of patriotism, not a
question of supporting this admins
tratiOn but of sustaining the Govern
ment in an honest effort to secure the
/ full fruits of the war
The United States has never yet
added a foot Of new territory but what
Z
could have avoided all the difficulties
! that lie across the pathway of the ma
! ton if a few months ago we had cOldly
/ ignored the piteous appeals of the
! starving and oppressed inhabitants OF
! Cuba If we had blinded ourselves tC
/ the conditions so near our shores and
| turned a deaf ear to our suffering
neighbors, the issue of territorial eX-
/ pansiOn in the Antilles and the East
Indies would not have been raised
But could we have justified such &
course? IS there anyone who would
declare another to have been the bet
ter course, with less humanity and less
courage on our part? The Spanish f1as
instead of the Stars and Stripes would
still be floating at Cavite, at Ponce anC
at Santiago, and chance in the race
OF life would be wanting TO millions o
human beings, who today call this ma
ton noble, and who, | trust, will liv'
TO call it blessed.
Thus far We have done our supreme
duty. Shall we now, when victory, VOL
in wars, is written in the treaty o
peace. and the civilized world applaud
and waits in expectation, turn timldi.
away from the duties imposed upon tn
, country by its own great deeds? AM
/ when the mistS fade, and we see wit
clearer vision, may we not go forth re
. ioicing in the strength which has bee
employed solely for humanity, and al
ways been tempered with justice an,
mercy, confident of our ability TO NEE
the exigencies which await us, conf
dent our course is one OF duty, and on
cause that of right?"