Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-28
will by those of us who hold commits
sions from that supreme tribunal.
| have tonight spoken in


slons from that supreme tribunal.
| have tonight spoken in
SOMEWHAT SERIOUS STRAIN
because | believe it is due both to the
membership of this Association and to
the conditions under which this as
semblage has met. The conferences
and systematic efforts of such body
of men as this are capable OF infinite
good to the respective communities IN
which the members live and to the ma
ton at large.
The country is now emerging from
trying conditions. 1t is only just be-
ginning to recover from the depression
in certain lines of business long con-
tinued and altogether unparalleled.
Progress, therefore, will naturally be
slow, but let us not be impatient.
Rather let us exercise a just patience
and one which in time will surely
bring it's own high reward.
| have no fear for the future OF our
beloved country. While | discern IN
its present condition the necessity
that always exists for the faithful de-
votion of it's citizens, the history of its
past is assurance to me that its course
will be as it always has been through
every struggle and emergence, still
onward and upward. 1t has never suf-
fered from any trial or been unequal
to any test Founded upon right prin-
ciples, we have nothing to fear from
the vicissitudes which may lie across
our pathway. The nation founded by
the fathers upon principles Of virtue,
education, freedom and human rights;
nodded by the great discussions which
established it's sovereignty, tried in
the crucible Of civilization, it's integ-
rity confirmed by the results of re-
construction, with a union
STRONGER AND BETTER
than ever before, stands to-day not
upon shifting sands, but upon immov-
able foundations. Let us resolve by
your laws and by your administration
of them to maintain the rights of the
citizen, to cement the union by still
closer bonds, to exalt the standards
of American civilization, encourage
the promotion of thrift, industry and
economy and the homely virtues which
have ennobled our people, uphold the
stability of our currency and credit
and illustrate the purity of our ma
tional and municipal government and
then, though the rain descends and
the floods come and the winds blow
the nation will stand, for it is found
ed upon rock
Senator William P. Frye, of Maine
who was introduced as one of the
greatest friends Of the merchant ma
rine, declared that the United States
should build the Nicaragua canal. He
did not approve of the private owner
ship of the canal In regard to the
Hawaiian islands, he said that the
value of the islands was 500, 900, 000
and that Americans owned it, He said
that if the treaty was not ratified in
less than one year the islands would
be under the protection of Great Brit
ain. This was met with cries of mo,
and much confusion followed. During
Senator Frye's references to Hawaii
there were several noes" yelled out
when he referred to treaty. He
closed amid great applause.
Charles Emory Smith was next in
troduced. He spoke at length on the
commercial destiny of the United
States, which he predicted would in
the coming century peacefully domi-
nate the markets of the world.
After midnight President Mckinley
held an informal reception, leaving
the hotel at l a. m. for the Windsor.