Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-23
MKINLEY'S TRIBUTE.
PRESENT CHIEF MAGISTRATE on
couNTRy's FIRST PRESIDENT.
aYHE CREDIT OF TIE FAYIOKs.
We should "observe Good Faith and
Justice" Toward All Governments,
and "cuItlvate Peace and Harmony
with All"


Academy to-day.
nv his side on the stage were as
sembled the faculty Of the University
of Pennsylvania and many professors and
executive officers Of other prominent edu-
cauonal Institutions.
The seating capacity Of the Academy
Is $500. All the seats and the proscenium
boxes were occupied. and from 400 to 600
persons stood I'm the rear of the several
galleries. The main portion Of the au-
disorium was reserved for the students
OF the college.
The appearance Of the President on the
stage was the signal for thunderous APP
plause. and as this died away the
students broke out with their thrice-re-
peated college cry Of pennsylvania
and the Municipal Band followed with
HAL 10 the Chief and the STAR
Spangled Banner"
The exercises were opened with prayer
by Bishop OF Whitaker or Inc Frotes-
tant Episcopal Church.
Charles Harrison. provost or the UNI
versity OF Pennsylvania, then delivered
an address. In closing which he intro
duced President Mckinley.
The President, as he stepped forward,
was greeted with spontaneous handicap
ping from all over the house. and the
students again gave their college cry. III
was some moments before quiet was re-
stored.
The Presidents address, which was de-
livered in his customary easy. graceful
manner. and with clear, distinct voice,
could be plainly heard by every person
in the audience.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
President Mckinley first spoke of Wash
ington as the man, the lover of liberty,
the patron and advocate Of free public
education, and then as the soldier, states
man, and Christian.
He extolled many Of his public acts and
utterances, and gave special praise TO his
farewell address, a document in which
was laid down principles which appeared
10 him "all-important to the permanence
OF our felicity as a people"
In conclusion. the President said:
Life to most Is a struggle, and there
IS little time for the contemplation of
the theoretic, when the practical is press
ing at every hand. Stern duty monopo-
lizes our time. The command of others
controls our preferences. and often de-
feats our Intentions. BY steadily adher-
ing 10 a firm purpose amid the activities
of life. we may keep I'm touch with the
literature Of the day; but to go back TO
the classics or to grapple with the foun- |
dations of the sciences is beyond the |
power Of most men when they have en- |
tered upon their chosen business or pro- |
fession.
"Ones mental fighting, often a hand |
to-hand conflict with obstacles and temp |
tations. is a battle of his own, a cam
paign whose motive force is individuality /
rather than circumstances or luck. Work |
in the mental world is as real as that in |
the physical world. Nor has any pre-
yet been found to take the |
place OF application and self-denial and
personal struggle, which have given to
the world its greatest leaders and noblest
achievements.
THE PUBLIC CREDIT.
"rCherish the public credit How
much both of restriction and instruction
is combined in this simple admonition of |
the Father Of his Country!
THE United States emerged from the
bitter and prolonged struggle Of the Revo-
lutionary war, exhausted financially, and
with hundred existing perplexities and
which remained TO be solved
before the financial credit Of the new
nation could be established at home
and demonstrated abroad. But Wash
ington knew how TO gather around him
and place in positions of the greatest
trust the able financiers and economists
whose names the country still venerates.
and whose great work it still enjoys.
Hamilton and Morris and Galatin and
others were successful in establishing
the Treasury, and inaugurating the
financial Onpruffnnc Of
upon principles which recognized that
the most enduring basis of national credit
was national honor, and that whatever
other assets we might have or acquire
that was Indispensable first. last. and
all the time, IL we would cherish the
public credit.
We have been fully rewarded all along
our history by adhering TO the princjnIes
of Washington in keeping the public faith
Before half century had passed we had
paid of our national debt and had a bal
ance In the Treasury. Another debt. the
greatest In our history, was incurred in
the civil war for the preservation of the
Union, but this did not exceed the re-
sources of nor discourage the American
people There were those who suggested
population, but the people repudiated
them, and went on discharging the obli-
cations Of the government in the coin of
honor.
From the day our flag was unfurled
TO the present hour no stain of inst
violated has yet furnished the
American nation. This must and viii
DC as true In the future as il has been in
the past. There will be prophets of evil
and false teachers. Some part of the
column may waver and wander awav
from the standard. but there will ever
rally around 1t mighty majority to pre-
serve II stainless and in honor.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
''At no point In his administration does
Washington appear In grander proper
ions than when he enunciates his ideas |
n regard TO the foreign policy Of the gov
rnment; observe good faith and Justice
oward all nations. Cultivate peace and
harmony with all. Religion and morality
'njoin this conduct. Can il be that good
'oliey does not equally enjoin il? II
would be worthy OF free. enlight-
med, and, at no distant period, a great ]
lation. TO give TO mankind the magnani- {
nous and too novel example OF a people
always guided by an exalted justice and
'eneyolence.'
To-day. nearly century from Wash I
ngtons death, we turn revefentially TO
tuay the leading principles of that COM l
rehensiye chart for the guidance Of the
eople. II was his unfinching, i'm {
novable devotion to these perceptions OF {
uty which more than anything else made
Tim that he was, and contributed so d.
cctly to what we are Following the
receipts OF Washington we cannot err
he wise lessons in government which
q left Ds IL would he Droffahfa a. 49,,