The age-herald., 1899-10-08
THE BANQUET
Thirty-five Hundred Guests Sit at the
 Tables

Chicago, October 7-Thirty-five hundred men gathered around the tables in the great banquet hall of the Auditorium to- night at the annual banquet of the Marquette club. The guest of honor was President Mckinley near whom sat Arch bishop Ireland. of St. Paul. Postmaster General Smith, Secretary Hay, other mem
 bers of the presidential party and officers of the Marquette club. great mass of roses in front of the president was the only floral display. President Wickersham, after the tables had been removed, called the gath ering to order and introduced Archbishop
 Ireland, who rose ta speak of "The Amerf-
 can Republic" He said in part:
 "The American republic; she lives and lib- erty lives with her. The flag of the Ameri- can republic means liberty. Wherever 1t
 goes liberty goes with 1t With an eye and
 throbbing heart we all watch today the
 journeying of the flag of America toward distant shores and pray for its safety and honor. We proclaim that in Asia as in America 1t means liberty and all the bless ings that go with liberty. Some say it means in Asia the repression of liberty. God forbid. It means in Asia the institu- tion of civil order, that America to whom the fateS of war have brought the unsought duty of maintaining order in those islands, may see and know how are the people or the fUll1pplHeSi WHO tHcIe hdNO the right to speak for the people what the people desire, and for what the people are fitted. Civil order restored, and 1t must be restored, the flag of America may be trusted to be for the Philippines he har- binger and the guardian of the liberty and the rights of the people. The American republic, she will live and with her liberty will live"
 Senator Fairbanks of Indiana, responded tothe toast, "The Present Administration" and his remarks were received with great demonstrations of approval.
 President WyckerSham then brought the assembly standing by the announcement that President Mckinley would speak. The president, who was greeted With frantic cheers spoke as follows:
 1T wdll not interrupt the orderly progress of the programme which has been made for you and to which I must insist that your chairman shall adhere I rise only to express my warm appreciation of the af- fectionate salutation of the Marquette club and to say that reciprocate 1t with all my ffeart. We are not strangers; this scene here tonight is not altogether unfamiliar ho me. I stood before you once before, now more than three years ago. your honored guest and I have for you all tonight only the most grateful recollection and unstinted gratitude. You have been my friends, faithful and unfaltering at aal times"
 President Wyckersham then neatly intro
  tary spoke of the willingness with which the American soldier has responded to every call of duty from the day of Lexing- ron, when every man behind stone wall "forned his own disappearing gun car riage' to the days when he sprang to the arms At the opening of hostilities with Spain. He praised the work of the army in the Philippines and paid a glowing tribute to the brilliant work of Admiral Dewey and the navy in Manila bay. He continued:
 By the 18th of this month 49,OOO men will be under the orders of Otis, Lawton and MacArthur, and by the 18th of the follow ing month 65,000 will be there. Now, what are these men fighting for. Are they fight ing a Filipino nation? Mo- There is no such thing. There are the sixty different tribes speaking sixty different languages and of these all but one will have to come under the control of the United States. Are we fighting all of these tribes, except one, Talagos? No; we are fighting less than one-half of this nation. We are fighting against the selfish ambition of a military dictator who has been permitted to gather all the men in the island discon- tented with Spanish rule and array them against our government while we wrested the islands for them from the dominican of Spain The title we have to the island of Luzon is better than our title to Loulsi- ana or Texas, and 1t rests upon a higher duty to humanity.
 .No American executive has the right to take one rod of land from under the sov- ereignty of the American people, and he will maintain that sovereignty in the island of Luzon, come who may to get it."
 The secretary spoke in strong condemna- ton of the criticism and asperslans of the American arms which he said were being circulated for political effect throughout the country.
 1.-The men who stand beneath our flag in