The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-13
MKINLEY.s sPEECH-

After HrGSlQGnL WaIIleS DdQ INTRO
dueed the distinguished guest of the
exposition, it was fully five minutes
before the subsistence of the applause
permitted the president to begin speak
ing. President McKinley's address was
as follows:
Gentlemen of the Mississippi ex-
position and fellow citizens 1t is with
genuine pleasure that 1 meet once more
the people of Omaha, whose wealth of
welcome is not altogether unfamiliar TO
me and whose warm hearts have before
touched and moved me. For this renew
ed manifestation of your regard, and for
the cordial reception OF today my heart
responds with profound gratitude and a
deep appreciation which l cannot con-
ceal. and which the language of cOmDli-
ment is inadequate to convey.
My greeting is not alone to your city
and the state of Nebraska but TO the
people of all the states of the trans
Mississippi group participating. and
cannot withhold congratulations upon the
evidence of their prosperity furnished by
this great exposition If testimony were
needed to establish the fact that their
pluck has not deserted them. and that
prosperity is again with them. il is
found here. This picture dispels all
doubt. In an age of eXpOsitiOns they
have added yet another magnificent ex
ample.
The historical celebrations at Phila-
delphia and Chicago and the splendid ex-
hibits at New Orleans, Atlanta and
yet in influence they still live and their
beneficent results are closely interviewer
with our national patrons of the trans
Mississippi exposition. Their cOntribU-
Iion will make another epoch in the ma
tiOn'S material advancement.
One of the great laws of life is progress
and nowhere has the principles of this
law been so Strikingly illustrated as in
the United States A century and a de-
cade of our national life have turned
doubt into conviction, changed expert
ment into demonstration; revOlutiOniZed
old methods and won new triumphs which
have challenged the attention of the
world. This is true. not only OF the ac-
cumulatiOn of material wealth and adj
vance in education, science, invention and
manufactures but above all in the Op-
portunitieS TO the people for their own
elevation. which has been secured by wise
free government. Hitherto in peace and
war, with additions to our territory and
slight changes in our laws, we have
steadily enforced the spirit of the cOnSti-
tuition secured TO us by the noble self
sacrifice and far-seeing sagacity of our
ancestors.
HAVE AVOIDED CONQUEST.
We have avoided the temptations Of
conquest in the spirit of gain. With an
increasing love for our institutions and
an abiding faith in their stability. we
have made the triumphs of our system of
government in the progress and the pros
perity of our people an inspiration to the
whole human race. Confronted at this
moment by new and grave problems, we
must recognize that their solution will
affect not ourselves alone, but others of
the family of nations.
In this age, of frequent interchange and
mutual dependency, we cannot shirk our
international responsibilities if we
would; they must be met with courage
and wisdom and we must follow duty
even il desire opposes.
No delberatiOn can be too mature or
self control too constant in this solemn
hour of our history. We must avoid the
temptation of undue aggression and aim
to secure only such results as will pro-
mote our own and the general good.
It has been said by some one that the
normal condition of nations was war.
That is not true of the United States. We
never enter upon war until every effort
for peace without it has been exhausted
Peace with whose blessings we have been
so Singularly favored, is the national de-
sire and the goal of every American
aspiration.
THE LATE WAR.
On the 25th of April. for the first time
for more than a generation, the United
States sounded the call to arms. The
banners of war were unfurled, the best
and bravest from every section respond
ed, q mighty army was enrolled, the
north and the south We'd with each other
vOked to furnish it's most effective weap-
Ons; factories were rushed to supply
equipment: the youth and the veteran
joined in freely Offering their services to
their country. Volunteers and regulars
and all the people rallied to the support
Of the republic. There was no break no
halt in the march; no fear in the heart;
home; no successful resistance TO the