The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-16
M'KlNLEY ON HIS POLICY
ADDRESSES 7,OOO PEOPLE AT THE
 ATLANTA PE1CE JUBILEE.

Says Flag Has Been Planted in TWO Hemispheres and Asks "Who VIII Haul 1t Down ."-The Task Not Full
 filled, 1t is Only Just Begun-Forma- tive Periods i'm thc Life of the Nation New Conditions wiu be Met only by New Methods.
 Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15.-President Me Kinley to-day addressed the public in the Auditorium in Piedmont park. Sev- en thousand people rose from their seats as the chief executive entered the Auditorium. The band played the Star Spangled Banner" amid applause, but when the strains of Dixie filled the building the crowd went wild. President Mckinley stood up and waved his hat above his head. MT. Hemphil, president of the jubilee committee, made leng- thy speech. He was followed by Gov ernor Candler in an address of welcome. As the president stepped forward the large audience applauded heartily. The speech was punctuated with constant cheers, but there were no outbursts similar to that which marked the presi- dents reference to the confederate dead yesterday. The president said
 This government has proved itself invincible in the recent war, and out of it has come nation which will remain indivisible forever The flag has been planted in two hemispheres and there it remains, the symbol of liberty and law, of peace and progress Who will with draw it from the people over whom it floats in protecting folds? Who will haul it down?
 The victory we celebrate is not that of ruler president or congress, but of the people. An army whose valor we admire and navy whose achieve ments we applaud were not assembled by draft or conscription. but from VOL untary enlistment The heroes came from civil as we'll as military life Trained and untrained soldiers wrought our triumph. The peace we have won is not a selfish truce of arms, but one whose conditions presage good to hu- nlanity
 New domains have been secured to us under the treaty but the treaty has yet to be acted upon by the senate We have so borne ourselves in the conflict and in our intercourse with the powers of the world as to escape complaint or complication and give universal con- fidence in our high purpose and unself- ish sacrifices for struggling peoples The task is not fulfilled. Indeed, it is only just begun. The most serious work is still before us and every energy of heart and mind be bent and the im- pulses of partisanship subordinated to its faithful execution This the time for earnest, not faint hearts New occa- sons teach new duties.
 ITO this nation and every nation there come formative periods in it's life and history. New conditions will be met only by new methods. Meeting these conditions, hopefully and facing them bravely and wisely is to be the mightiest test of American virtue and capacity. Without abandoning past limitations, traditions and prncipes but by meeting present opportunities and obligations we shall show ourselves worthy of the great trust which civili- zation has imposed upon us.
 At Bunker Hill, liberty was at stake; at Gettysburg, the union was the issue before Manila and Santiago, our armies fought not for gain or revenge, but for human rights. They contendcd for freedom of the oppressed, for whose welfare the United States has never failed to lend hand to establish and uphold and, I believe, never will. The glories of the war cannot be dimmed but the result will be incomplete and unworthy of us unless supplemented by civil victories, harder possibly to wir but in their way no less indispensa- ble
 I've will have our differences enc our endorsements. They follow al victories and accompany all great re sponsibilities. They are inseparablt from every great movement of reform But American capacity has triumpheo over all the pasts. All doubts have vanished. Apparent dangers have beer ayerted or avoided and our own his tory shows that progress has come tt us so naturally and steadily on tit heels of new and grave responsibilities that, as we look back upon the acquls1' ton of territory by our fathers we art filled with wonder that any doubt coult have existed or any apprehension coult have been felt of the wisdom of thei1 action or their capacity to grappl' with the then untried and mighty prob 1ems The republic is to-day larger stronger and better prepared than eve before for wise and profitable develop ments in new directions. Even if th minds of some of our own people ar' still disturbed by perplexing and an xious doubts. in which all of us nav shared and still share, the genius e American civilization will, I believe, b found both original and creative ant capable of subserving all the great in torests which shall be confided to ou keeping.
 "Forever in the right, following tn hest impulses and clinging to high pur noses, using properly and within righ limits our power and our rights, hon orabIe reward must inevitably follow Tbe outcome cannot be in doubt. Thu far we have done our supreme duty Shall we. too when the victory won Il war is written in the treaty of peac and the civilized world appauds an waits in expectation, turn timidly ava from the duties imposed upon the coun .- h1, its oyn great deedS2 And wh91