The Portland daily press., 1898-10-13
WE MUST Do OUR DUTY.
President Discusses Result OF war at
Omaha.

Intimates That Path We Are to Follow
MAY Entail Some Burdens-In Some
Way Right End VIII Be Reached.
Omaha, Neb., October IL. At 9 o'clock
the President was in the parlors of the
Omaha club where. he! greeted the men,
bers of his party and other distinguished
callers. 1t was after 10 O'Clock when the
Presidential party, escorted by President
Wattles and membe of the entertainment
committee in carriages, started for the
exposition grounds. - They were headed
by platoon ofzzmouuted police while the
President and party were escorted by the
board of governors of the Ak-Sar- Ben,
mounted and dressed in their regalia
The party proceeded directly to the Grand
Plaza on Bluff tract of the exposition,
where in the music pavilion the formal
exercises of the day occurred.
In the first carriage was the President
with Gordon W. Waffle, president or the
exposition. Then followed Gen. Miles,
Cor. Greedy, Gen. Wheeler, Secretaries
Gage. Bliss and Wilson, members of the
diplomatic corps secretaries of legations
and press representatives. President Nc
Kinley probably never received more
enthusiastic greeting than that which
awaited him at the exposition grounds.
By far the greatest crowd in the big west
ern shows history packed the space
around the huge platform from which
the President made his speech. Hardly
one sentence was spoken which did not
evoke from the people cheer upon cheer.
After Presidents Wattles had introduced
the distinguished guest Of the exposition,
1t was fully five minutas before the SUBJ
sidenoe of applause permitted the Presi-
dent to begin speaking. PRESIDENT Mo
Kinley's address was as follows.
Gentlemen of the Trans Mississippi Ex-
position, and Fellow Citizens;
1t is with great pleasure Chat meet
once more the people Of Omaha. whose
wealth of welcome Is not altogether un-
familiar to me, and whose warm hearts
have before touched and moved me. For
and for the cordial reception Of today my
heart responds with profound gratitude
and a deep appreciation u nioh cannot
conceal and which the language Of CON-
pliment is inadequate to convey. My
greeting is mot alone to your city and
the State Of Nebraska, but to the people
of all the states of the trans Mississippi
group participating here, and cannot
congratulations on the evidences
Of their prosperity furnished by this great
exposition. If testimony were needed to
the fact that their pluck has not
deserted them and that prosperity is again
with them, it is found here. This picture
dispels all doubt In an age of expeditions
they have added yet another magnificent
Ia hn icfn mi ~
and Chicago and the splen-
did exhibits at New Orleans, Atlanta and
Nashville, are now part of the past and
yet in influence they still live and their
beneficent results are CLOSELY interviewer
with our national development. Similar
rewards will honor the authors and pa.
irons Of the TRANS Mississippi exposition.
Their contribution Will make another
epoch in the nations material advance
ment.
One OF the great laws of life Is progress
and nowhere have the principles of this
law been so strikingly illustrated US in
the United States. A century and a de-
,ade of our national life have turned doubt
into conviction changed experiment. into
revolutionized oldimethods
and won new tfiumphs which have chal-
enged the attention of the world. This Is
true not only of the accumulation of ma
ierial wealth and advance in education,
science, invention and manufacture, but
above all in the opportunities to the |
people for their own elevation. which have
been secured by wise free government.
Hitherto in peace and in war. with adj |
1itions to our territory and slight changes
N eur laws we have steadily enforced the |
pirit Of the constitution secured to us by |
jhe notable self sacrifice and far-seeing |
,agacity OF our ancestors. We have
welded the temptations of conquest in |
jhe spirit Of gain.
With an increasing love for our institu- |
ions and an abiding faith in their stabili- |
~ we have made the triumphs OF our sys. |
of our people an inspiration |
% the whole human race. If confronted |
It this moment by new and grave prob. |
ems. we must recognize that their solu.
ion will affect not ourselves alone, but |
Ithers of the family of nations.
In this age Of frequent interchange and |
mutual dependency we cannot shirk in |
hey must be met with courage and wis |
lom.
No elaboration can be too mature or |
elf control too constant in this solemn |
,our OF our history. We must avoid the |
emptations of undue aggression and aim |
@ secure only sach results as will promote |
,ur own and the general good.
,ormal condition of nations Is war. That |
j not true of the United States. We never
inter- upon war until every effort for
,eace without 1t has been exhausted.
)urs has never been q military govern
nent. Peace with whose blessings we
lave been so singularly favored, is the
rational desire and the goal of every
American aspiration.
ION the 25th Of April, for the first time
or more than generation, the United
,tatea sounded the call to arms. The BAN
lers of war we're unfurled; the best and
,rayest from every section responded. A
mighty army was enrolled; the north and
he south We'd with each other In patriotic
[eyotion; science was invoked to furnish
Is most effective weapons; factories
we're rushed to supply equipments; the
'outh and the veteran Joined in freely
,ffering their services to the country;
,oluntsers and regulars and all the people
allied on the support Of the republic.
There was no break in the line, no halt
n the march, no fear in the heart, no re-
istance to the patriotic impulse at home,
10 successful resistance to the patriotic
pirit Of the troops fighting in distant
waters or in foreign shore.
What a wonderful experience it has been
rom the standpoint of patriotism and