The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-10
M M'KlNLEYSPEAKS IN CHICAGO
TELLS or THE GREAT GROWTH OF
 THE NATION.

l THE NATION.
 Every Variety of Territory Annexed Republic steadior and stronger Than | ward and Not Bnckward-From Plymouth Rock to the Philippines. Chicago, Oct. 9.-Chicago's great Au-
 ditorium, which has been the scene of
 so many notable events, never held q
 greater gathering than tonight, when
 the Chicago day banquet was held With
 in it's walls under the auspices of the fall festival committee. President Me- distinguished guests were at the same
 table, among them being Vice President
 Don Ignacio Mariscal of Mexico, Pre-
 mier Wilfrid Laurier of Canada, Gen.
 eral John c. Black, Governor John R.
 Tanner, Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Se-
 nor Manuel De Aspirez, Secretary Hay,
 Secretary Gage Attorney General
 Grggs, Postmaster General Smith, Sec
 retary Long, Secretary Hitchcock, Sec
 retary Wilson, General David B. Hen
 derson, Senator Boies Penrose, Major
 General Wesley Merritt, Senator Shelby
 M. Cullom, Brigadier- General Thomas M. Anderson, General Russell A. Alger,
 Carl Dentzer, Dr. Emil Hirsch, Minis ter to Brazil Charles Page, M. Ryan, w.
 Buchanan, Japanese Minister Jutaro Komura, Senator William E. Mason,
 Captain Joseph B. Coghlan, Senator
 William B. Allison, Sir Alphonse Peile- tier, Senator James McMilan, Senator
 Samuel D. McEnery, Commissioner General Ferdinand w. Peck and Gener- al McKibbon.
 President Mckinley said: MT. Toast master and Gentlemen-I am glad to join you in extending a sincere welcome to the distinguished statesmen and dip lomats who represent the great coun- tries adjoining us on the north and south. We are bound to them by ties of mutual good neighborhood We re- joice in their prosperity, and we wish them godspeed in the pathway of prog gross they are so SuCCeSSIully anu CL- ergetically pursuing"
 The president then spoke of the great progress of the United States and said:
 From 3,929.214 in 1790 ou: population has grown to upwards of 62 2iOOo,OOo in 1890, and our estimated population to- day, made by the governors of the states, is 77,S03,231. We have grown from thirteen states to forty-fve. We have annexed every variety of terri tory from the coral reefs and cocoanut groves of Key West to the icy regions of northern Alaska-territory skirting the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico the Pacific and the Arctic and the islands of the Pacific and Carribean sea-and we have extended still further our jur- isdiction to the far-away islands i'll the Pacific. Our territory is more than four times larger than it was when the treaty of peace was signed in 170S. Our industrial growth has been even more phenomenal than that of population or territory. Our wealth, estimated in 1790 at $462, ,000, 900, has advanced to s65,000, 000, ,000
 Education has not been overlooked. The mental and moral equipment of the south, upon whom will in the future rest the responsibilities of government, has had the unceasing and generous care of the state and the nation. We expended in 1S97-8 in public education, open to all, $202. 115,55S for secondary $23, 3,474,6S3 and for higher edu- cation for the same period $S0,307, 902. The number of pupils enrolled in public schools in 1S96-97 was IA, ,652, 492, or more than 20 per cent. of our population Is this not a pillar of strength to the re- public? Our national credit, often tried, has been ever upheld. It has no superb or and no stain. The United States has never repudiated a national obligation, either to it's creditors or to humanity. It will not now begin to do so either. It never struck a blow except for civliza- ton, and never struck it's colors. Has the pyramid lost any of its strength? Has the republic lost any of it's virility? Has the self-governing principle been weakened? Is there any present men, ace to our stability and duration? These questions bring but one answer. The republic Is sturdier and stronger than ever before. Government by the people las been advanced, Freedom under the lag is more universal than when the Union was formed. Our steps have been forward, nor backward. From | Plymouth Rock to the Philippines the | grand triumphant march of human lib- l ,rty has never paused'"