The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-07
President Mckinley Talks on His
Trip to Chicago.
WILL UPHOLD THE FLAG
Duty Unperformed Is Dishonor - The
Cause OF Civilization and Peecs.
Making the Best Army
in the World.

anu Janus piaSeu DlAle as ffeSlueEL
Mckinley alighted from his private car
at the grounds of the Illinois Soldiers
home this morning. Fifteen hundred
CID inmates Of the home cheered enthu-
siastically as the president and men,
bers of the cabinet took q carriage to
be driven between long platoons of SOL
diers around the beautiful grounds. The
party was then driven from the soldiers
home to the city proper Six thousand
school children We're massed at the
court house. waving flags and singing
national airs as the president appeared
The streets Of Quincy We're literally
packed with. people.
The president and several members
of the cabinet delivered brief addresses
from the reviewing stand at Quincy.
The president said:
Il thank you, one and all. for this
patriotic welcome. 1t has given me
| uncommon pleasure to meet this morn
ing at the soldiers home the men Of
1851, the veterans who stood in the
trenches and behind the guns in that
year Of great emergency, when the life
Of the nation hung in the balance.
(Applausc). 1t has given me like
pleasure also to meet with the ex-so!
diers of the Spanish war from the city
Of Quincy and the naval militia, rep
reEentlng the patriotism of 1898. CAP
plause). And it is gratifying to me to
learn that you sent from this city one
Of the gallant young officers who
fought with Dewey in Manila bay.
This is an era Of patriotism, my coun-
try1nen. The United States has never
been lacking in gratitude to its SOL
diers and its sailors who have fought
n re r11a 1f
United States has never lacked defend
ers in every crisis of its history from
the revolutionary days to the present.
The citizens of the United States have
been ever ready to uphold at any cost
the flag and the honor of the nation,
and to take all the responsibility,
born of duty, that can never be re-
pndiated. Duty unperformed is dis
honor, and dishonor brings shalU
which is heavier to carry than any
burden which honor can impose. My
fellow citizens, thank you for this
more than gracious welcome and bid
You all good morning"
Secretary Root.
| Secretary Root said:
Fellow Citizens of Illinois: My
humble duty during the last two
months is to do what you are doing
here to-day by the encouragement and
inspiration of your presence, holding
up the hands and strengthening the
soul and cheering the courage Of the
president, the chief magistrate of our
beloved country, in maintaining its
honor and doing its full duty before
God and man on the great stage of the
world. There is no partisanship, no
! factionalsfn in the business in which
we are engaged, helping President Nc
Kiniey. No man can shelter himself
under the flag Of party, or justify him
self by any declaration Of principle in
falling to stand behind the men of all
parties and all creeds who lie to-day
in the trenches of LuZon. / have no
fear, no question whatever that in the
| days and nights that the secretary of
war is giving to seeing to it that the
army of the United States is the best
fed, best equipped and best armed
army the world has ever seen, the
sympathy and the support Of the peo-
try will be behind him and the presi-
dent. The cause in which your SOL
diers are fighting and in which you
! democrats and republicans alike stand
| behind them is the cause of civiliza-
tion and peace. The men behind the
| guns in Manila to-day will be followed
| by the men with the text book and
the Bible, bringing the arts of civil
ization, respect for law and order and
the welfare of the country. No gov
| ernment can live for self alone, nor
grow to full stature by selfishnes's.
This great republic Is following to-day.
as it has followed in the past, the lines
out the way of the great march of civ
! iliZation."
Attorney General Grigss.
Attorney General Griggs spoke at
| Quincy as follows:
| Il was interested to see that vast
concourse of school children who turn
| ed out this morning. all with flags il!
their hands. to welcome the president
OF the United States. 1T took me back
in memory to the days when ! was an
| American school boy, and l remember
that in those days when I opened my
geography I could find all the territory
| of the United States upon one conti-
| nent. and one page, but now when your
children open their books and are told
to point out those possessions over
which the American flag floats in sover-
| eighty. it takes two continents to dis
close that territory. The secretary of
| the interior is making a new map OF
| the United States of America and he is
embarrassed to find room to place no,
only the states but the vast new island
possessions that have become ours.
And what is their present condition
WHAT do these school children learr
about these islands that have come tc
us? They will be told by their teacn.
ers that within o. year there has beer
added to our domain a vast archipelago
! in the Pacific ocean, peopled with 5000
| OOe or 10000. 900 of souls who speak more
than score of different languages ant
who compose more than two score diff.
ferent, discordant and disconnected
| tribes. They will be told that for NOR.
| than 300 years these islands, rich in nat
Iral possessions, fertile in soil, have
been governed by Spanish authority
| and that down to the end of this 1911
| century of civilization and progress
they have attained not much more in
telllgence, not much more civilization
not much more wealth. and no more lib
| efty than they had attained in those
days when the great Spanish salieon2
1 carried home annually from those ISL
| ands their wealth of gold and silver 10
| enrich the treasury Of King Philip
They will be told that to-day the Unit
| ed States of America possesses by