The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-10

mier Laurier's Friendly speooh.
Chicago. Oct. 1O-Chicagos great
Auditorium never held a greater gath
ering than last night, when the Chi
cago day banquet was held within its
walls under the auspices OF the fall
festival committee. The great stage.
upon which 1000 people can easily
find standing room, had been enlarged
and a great floor built out over the
seats of the parquet, quadrupling the
floor space Of the stage. President Nc
Kinley, who was the guest of honor,
sat at a raised table on the right of
Melville 4. Stone. the toastmaster.
Other distinguished guests we're at
the same table. among them being
Vice President Don lgnacio Mariscal
of Mexico, Premier Wilfrid Laurier Of
Canada, General John G. Black. Gov
ernor John r. Tanner, Mayor Carter
Fl. Harrison, Senior Manuel De Aspiroz
Secretaries Hay, Gage, Smith, Long,
Hitchcock and Wilson, Attorney Cen
eral Griggs, Generals David b. Hem
derson, Merritt, Anderson and Alger.
Carl Dentzer. DR.. Emil G, Hirsch, min
lister to Brazil, Charles Page Bryan,
W. T. Buchanan, Japanese Minister
Jutaro Komura and Senators Mason
Allison, Mcmillan. McEnery, Penrose
and Cullom
The opening hour Of the banquet was
set for O'Clock, but the streets were
so densely packed by the great throng
that had come down to witness the
laying of the corner stone of the new
federal building and the afternoon pa
rade and remained in great part to see
the parade OF the evening that It was
with difficulty one could make his way
along the streets, and as a consequence
it was nearly an hour later than that
originally set when the banquet was
in full blast
The material part of the banquet oc
cupied two hours. and it was nearly
10 o'clock when Mr.. Stone raped for
order. and brought the intellectual por-
tion of the program to the front in an
eloquent address. He was followed
by Governor Tanner. Mayor Harrison,
Senator McCullom, President McKin-
ley. Premier Laurier of Canada, Vice
President Mariscal of Mexico, Secre-
tary Long. d. b. Henderson and Gen
eral Thomas NJ. Anderson.
Secretary Long evoked thunderous of
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heroes. He said in part:
"You cheer for the men behind the
guns; you give swords and banquets
here and there to an admiral-and
both most richly deserve the tribute
but remember that all up and down the
line there are indiyiduals whose names
never come to our ears, or if so. are
already half forgotten, who have earn
| ed unfading laurels. No man In the
navy has rendered such service, how
| ever great, that others were not ready
| to fill the place and do as well. The
navy is full of heroes unknown to
| fame. Who repeats the names of the
| young officers who pleaded for Hob
sons chance to risk his life in the hull
! and hell of the Merrimac? Who men
| tions the scores of seamen who beg
| ged to be of the immortal seven who
were his companions in that forlorr
hope? In the long watch before San
| tiago the terror of our great battle
ships was the two Spanish torpedo
boat destroyers. Yet when the great
| battle came it was the unprotected
| Gloucester, converted yacht, the
former plaything and pleasure boat Of
a summer vacation, which without
hesitation or turning attacked these
demons of the sea and sunk then
both. l have always thought 1t the
most heroic and gallant individual in
stance of fighting during the war L
was as if some light clad youth, will
no defense but his sword, threw him
self into the arena with armoreC
gladiators and by his very dash anC
spirit laid them low. And yet who hai
| given a sword or spread a feast Il
that purest flame of chivalrous hero
ism, Richard Wainwright" ?"
Premier Laurier, in the course o
his address, made this reference t
international disputes:
81 am proud TO say, in the presence
| of the chief executive of the UniteC
States, that 1t is the belief of the Can
a6ian government that we should maxi
q supreme effort to better our relation
and make the government of Preslden
Mckinley and the present governmen
of Canada, with the assent of Grea
Britain, so to work together as t
remove all causes of dissension be
tween us. And regarding the commits
sion which sat first in the old city o
Quebec and sat next in Washington
We met a stumbling block in tn
question of the Alaska frontier. We'll
let me say here and now, the commits
sion couldn't settle that question an,
referred it to their particular govern
ments, and they are now dealing witt
It. May | be permitted to say her
and now that we do not desire on
inch of your land, but if / state, how
ever, that we want to hold our land
will that be an American sentiment
want to know? However, thoug
that would not be an American senti
ment, though 1t would not be a Brit
ish or Canadian sentiment, am her
to say above all my fellow country
men that we want not to stand upo
the extreme limits of our rights. w
are ready to give and to take. Bu
though we have many little pickering
of that kind. l speak my whole minC
and l believe l speak the mind of a
you gentlemen, when l say that afte
all, when we go down to the bottom {
our hearts we will find that there
between us a true genuine affection
There are no two nations today on tn
face of the globe so united as Grea
Britain and the United States {
America"
The most spectacular feature Of tn
entire fall festival, the parade of a
nations, took place last night, and wa
viewed by thousands, the streets in tt
down town district being literally
solid mass of humanity for the entii
length of the parade. The parade,