The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02

Delivers an Address.
4 little later luncheon was served in
the dining-rooms Of the hotel, some 300
persons sitting down, and then the
presidential party was driven to the
shipyard, the president being warmly
cheered all along the route. Al the yard
an immense crowd had assembled. The
president, having been introduced from
the stand by Mayor Taylor, spoke in
part as follows:
II heartily rejoice with the people of
this great city upon it's industrial revival
and upon the notable prosperity it is feel
ing In all of it's business enterprises. You
are taking advantage of the commercial
opportunities of the hour. You are ad-
vancing In manufa ctures, extending your
markets and receiving a deserved share
Of the worlds trade. What can be more
gratifying to us than the present condi-
lions Of the country. A universal love of
country and a noble national spirit animate
all the people. We are on the best of terms
with each other, and on most cordial rela-
tons with every power Of eartr. We have
ample revenues with which to conduct the
government. No deficit menaces our cred
it. Money is abundant in volume Sno un-
questioned in value.
Confidence in the present and faith in
the future are firm and strong, and should
not be shaken or unsettled. The people
are doing business on both principles, and
should be let alone-encouraged rather
than hndered in their efforts to increase
the trade of the country and find new
and profitable markets for their products.
Manufacturing was never so active and so
universally enjoyed throughout all the
states. Work was never so abundant The
transportation companies were never so
taxed to handle the freight offered by the
people for distribution. The home and for
eign markets contribute to our prosperity.
Happily the latter has increased without
any dminution of the former. Your loco
motives go to Russia. the watch cases
from my little city of Canton to Geneva;
the bridges of Philadelphia span the Nile,
and the products of the American farm
and factory are carried upon every sea
and find welcome in most of the ports of
the world.
Era of Good VIII ana Good Times.
happy conditions, with the promises they
give of the future? The business activity
in every part of the country, the better re-
wards to labor. the wider markets for the
yield of the soil and the shop the increase
of our shipbuildng, not only for our gov
eminent. but for purposes of commerce.
the enormous increase of our export trade
in manufactures and agriculture, the
greater comforts of the home and the hap
piness of the people. the wonderful uplift
ing of the business conditions of Virginia
and the south and of the whole country.
Mark this is not only an era of good will
but an era of good times 1t is great
pleasure to me to stand in this historic cap
ital and to look into the faces of my coun-
trymen here assembled and to feel and
know that we are all Americans, standing
as one for the government we love and
mean to uphold, united for the honor of
the American nation and for the faithful
fulfllment of every obligation which ma
tional duty requires"
The president then thanked the men of
Virginia for the hearty and patriotic sup
port of the government in the war with
Spain, and for their continued and unflinch-
ing loyalty in the suppression OF the insur-
rection in Luzon against the authority of
the United States.
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