Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-19
TIE vALOR Of AMERICANS

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Praised and GloriAed by Peace Jubilee
Orators at Chicago.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
EJLOGIZED-PRAISE FOR EVERY
BODY-MEN OF WORLDWIDE RE-
NOWN SPEAK OF THE BEAUTIES
OF PEACE AND THE GLORY OF
WAR-A GREAT MASS MEETING
AT THE AUDITORIUM = CHAIR
MAN PECK, ARCHBISHOP IRE
LAND, MAYOR HARRISON, AND
OTHERS, INCLUDED IN THE LIST
OF SPEAKERS.
Chicago, October 1S.-Eight thousand
people packed within the walls of the
Auditorium building to-day, witnessed
the formal opening exercises of the ma
tional peace jubilee All that had pre-
ceded to-day's great meeting was
merely preliminary in its nature, and
most of it in honor of the President
personally To-day, however, the act
ual jubilee began. The weather was
cold and damp, with lowering skies,
and raw wind blowing off theslake,
compelled people to hug the lee side OF
the buildings and seek warm corners;
but the crowd was closely packed
around the building fully an hour be-
fore the doors were open. The people
came rapidly, and long before the COM
mencement of the exercises the great
hall was packed from pit to dome.
The exercises opened with a short
address by Chairman Charles Truax,
of the jubilee committee, at the conclu-
sion of which he introduced the pre-
siding officer, George r. Peck. Mr..
Pecks' address, which was greeted with
great applause, was as follows:
"This great assemblage of American
citizens is profoundly significant of the
feeling which pervades American hearts
here and everywhere. 1t means some
thing more than the mere pride of
conquest; for beneath the joyous eXul-
tation of victory is the greater joy that
with it has come, or is coming, just,
honorable, and therefore a glorious
peace. The triumphal arches that span
our streets, the flags blending their col
ors in pictures of infinite beauty, are
more eloquent than words to tell US
that we live in heroic days. What les
sons have come to us in the brief space
that separates to-day from the spring
months of this eventful year! We have
! learned that our own kindred can be
trusted to keep unsullied their hertz
age from the fathers. We have learned
sha courage and faith can still lead
ippery heights, if only their
flag and their country's honor
them. We have learned that
a tropic sun, fighting against all
the elements that make up the I'M
speakable savagery of war in the jungle,
American valor still rests serenely up
on it's own undaunted heart. We have
learned that the American soldier, reg
ular and volunteer-white and black
is worthy of the uniform he wears and
of the cause that was given into his
keeping.
We have heard and all the world
has heard, how Dewey saluted the
morning in the far-off Orient and light
ed up the hazy waters of Manila with
such a sun rise as they had never seen
before We have known a Fourth Of
July made more glorious by the tidings
that came, telling us how Sampson
and Schley and Clark and Evans and
Phillip and Wainwright, and the brave
sailors behind the guns, and on the
decks and down where the furnace
fires were iercely burning. fell upon
the leviathans Of Spain and sent them
to their doom almost in the twinkling
of An eye. The army and the navy,
two arms of that mighty giant, the
American nation, have in equal meas
ure struck increasingly for the honor of
their country and for the cause of a
common humanity, which in its high
est sense means universal justice.
One name in the midst of all this pag-
eantry is in yOi;r thoughts and your
hearts speak ont before my lips can
utter it: William Mckinley, our
President" You know him for what
he is, wise, patient, kindly. generous,
calmly judging that what is right is
the highest craftsmanship. How sure
~ he knows, as he meets his country
men face to face, that the people al
ways trust the leader who trusts his
own conscience and theirs. We can
not say that all dangers are passed
Some storms may come, some waves
roll high about us, but we know a
brave, strong hand will hold the rud-
Ger true"
Six months ago We welcomed war in
the thoughtful. solemn spirit which
BELTS an appeal to the sword. To-day
we welcome peace and all its blessings.
We have given good lives for it, and
every life makes it more precious
Victory has come to us in fullest meas
ure. We have won ships and cannon,
and forts and arsenals. Cities have
opened their gates and islands in both
hemispheres have welcomed the arms
and the institutions OF freedom. But
the greatest prize we have won, in its
consequences to us as a people, is the
supreme victory which North and
South have won over each other. Long
400 all sensible and Datriotir naon1a