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


| his address, said:
! What strength and power America
was found, to possess. When war was
| declared, so small was her army, so
| small her navy, that the thought OF
war coming upon the country affrighted
for the moment her own citizens and
excited the derisive smiles Of foreign
| ers OF her latent resources no doubt
was possible; but how much time was
needed to utilize them, and meanwhile
! how much humiliation was possible.
| The President waved his hand; instant
/, ly armies and navies were created as
/ by magic. Within few weeks quar-
| ter of a million of men were formed
into regiments and army corps; yes
sells of war and transport ships were
| covering the seas; upon water and
victories won, from one side of the
globe to the other. l know not of SIM
| liar feats in history What if in this
| bewildering rush of nation to- arms,
| one department or another of the ma
/! tional administration was unable to
, put in moment its hand upon all the
| details which a thoroughly rounded
| equipment required. The wonder Isl
| that the things that were done could
at all have been done, and that what
was done so quickly could have been
| done so WE'LL The wonder is that this
| sudden creation of such vast military
! forces was possible even to America.
| What prowess in action, what in
I, tellect in planning, what skill in execu-
ton were displayed by soldiers and
seamen, by men and officers. Mag
nifcent the sweep of Dewey's squadron
| in Manila harbor Magnificent the
broadsides from Simpsons fleet upon
Cervera's fleeing ships. Magnificent
the charge of regiments of regular in
! fantry and Roosevelt's riders up the
hills of Ell Caney. Never daunted,
never calculating defeat, every man
determined to die or conquer, every
man knowing his duty, how to do it
the soldiers and seamen of America
were invincible. Spanish fleets and
Spanish armies vanished before them,
as mists before the morning sun; the
nations of the earth stood amazed in
! the presence of such quick and decis-
! i've triumphs, at what America had
done and at what they now understood
+, America could do.
The war is ended. 1t would ill be-
come me to say what details shall en-
| ter into the treaty of peace which
America is concluding with her van
quished foe. I stand in the presence
CT the chief magistrate of the republic.
TIC him it belongs by right of official
position and of personal wisdom to pre-
scribe those details The country has
| learned from the acts of his admins
tration that to his patriotism, his cour-
age, his prudence, she may we'll con-
! fide her safety, her honor, her destiny,
! her peace. Whatever the treaty of
peace, America will be pleased when
| appended tol1 is treaty is the name Of
William Mckinley.
| To take its proper place among the
older nations of the earth, nation must
be known, and she is, to those nations.
| The world, to-day, as never before,
knows and confesses the greatness and
the power of America. The world to-day
admires and respects America. The
young giant of the West, heretofore neg
lected and almost despised in his remote
ness and isolation, has begun to move as
becomes his stature, the world sees what
| he is and pictures what he may be.
America is too great to be isolated from
She is a world-power to whom no world
| interest is alien, whose voice reaches afar,
whose spirit travels across seas and
| mountain ranges, to most distant CONT
nents and slands-and with America goes
| far and wide what America in her grand
est ideal represents: democracy and lib
| erty a government of the people, by the
people. for the people. This is Ameri-
| = A ,ara farr n
American shipping, or American soldiery.
Where this grandest ideal of American
! life is not held supreme, America has
not reached; where this ideal is supreme,
America reigns. The vital significance of
Americas triumphs is not understood
unless by those triumphs is understood
! the triumph of democracy and of liberty.
| Americans your country demands intel
ligence and virtue. Build schools and coll
leges. Drive from the land the darkness
of ignorance. Practice and encourage vir-
tue Let America. be the home of honesty
| and of justice, of social purity and of
temperance, of honor and of faithfulness,
| of self-restraint and of obedience to law.
Even more than intelligence is virtue
needed, that America live and be great.
Judge Emery Speer, of Georgia, follow
| cd with the CLOSING dOuTesS
During the afternoon 1--WE meetings
were held in different parts of the city.
! A large meeting at Studebaker Hall was
addressed by Albert J. Beveridge, of In
| dianapolis, and President Cyrus North
rop, of the University of Minnesota. At
| the Columbia theatre, Gen. Miles. Gen.
| Henry NJ Dufheld, of Detroit, and Booker
T. Washington. addressed an audience
| limited only by the size of the theatre.
At the First Regiment Armory Secre-
| tary James Wilson and Mayor David S.
| Rose of Milwaukee, comprised the list
! of speakers. Samuel Gompers spoke at
the Second Regiment Armory. and
/ Charles Emory Smith delivered an adj
dress at North Side Turner Hall.
The public schools, all of which were
properly decorated. devoted the day to
| jubilee exercises and TO hearing addresses
| by prominent educators and orators.
! At the conclusion of Judge Spears ad
dress. which concluded the programme.
there were loud calls for Mckinley Nc
! Kinley.' The President had turned and
was just about 10 leave the box. but he
! turuned and came back to the front. He
waited for a moment until Ex-Governor
! Richard ]. Cglesby brought the assem-
| blage to something resembling quiet.
My Fellow Citizens:-I have been deeply
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