The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-11

| Levee at Memorial Hall Brought
Out Largest Crowd of the Festival
President Makes Another Speech
Vice President MariscaI of Mex
fcO, Thanks Americans for Atten-
tions Shown His Government.
| CHICAGO, Oct. 10.-At II 80 o'clock to-
night President Mckinley and the mem
| bers Of his cabinet left Chicago for
| Evansville, Ind, on a special train over
| the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad.
| His departure, with the cheers of an i'm
mense throng ringing in his ears, brought
| to the close the day of genuinely hard
| work. in which the president had scarcely
| a moment of leisure for himself The
| crowds which greeted him at every turn
| were so good natured and so disposed to
cheer that the president, although
wearied when he reached his train, ex-
pressed himself as having thoroughly en-
| joyed himself
The final numbers tonight on the presi-
! dents extraordinary lengthy list of en-
| gagements were magnificent banquet by
| the Commercial club and his visit to a
meeting Of the Chicago bricklayers and
| stonemasons' union, of which he was a
| fortnight ago elected an honorary mem
| Der.
An exciting incident varied and for a
moment threatened to upset the presi-
| dents ceaseless round of activities. While
in his carriage on Congress street, en-
route to Memorial hall to greet the mem
| hove Of bo nf he Arr Of
Tennessee, one of the horses attached to
| the presidents carriage became fractions
| and evinced a desire TO run. The driver
had all he could do to restrain the animal,
| and after he had been tUgging at the
lines for several blocks the horse finally
| broke away and started on a run. Capt.
| Mat Pinkerton, of the Chicago hussars, a
detachment of which had joined the pro-
| cession, galloped beside the Unmanageable
| steed and grasped its bride, bringing the
| animal to SLOW trot. The captain main=
| tanned his hold for the balance of the
| trip.
| Tonights banquet given in President
! McKinley's honor by the Commercial
club, of Chicago, was held iii the banquet
| room of the Auditorium hotel. The club
! is limited in membership, and not over
! 200 were present tonight, but they COM
eprised the men most prominent in the
| commercial life Of Chicago. Cyrus II.
! Mccormick presided, and in his opening
! speech announced that while, according
tc the usual custom of the club, there
would be no toasts, list of speakers
| had been prepared, of whom the first
would be the president. Mr. Mccormick
made very neat speech introducing the
! president, who spoke as follows:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
congratulate you. gentlemen. upon the
growth and advancement of your city,
| and the evidences of prosperity every-
| where observable. Nothing impressed me
more In looking into the faces of the
! great multitudes on the streets vester-
DAY, than the smiling. happy faces IF
| the people. That was evidence to me Of
| your real and substantial prosperity. 1t
| means employment, good wages, happy
| homes-and these are always indispensa-
| Bile to good government and to the hap
| p1ness of the people.
We have had a wonderful industrial
development In the last two years Our
WORKSHOPS never were sObus V. our trade
| was never so large and our foreign trade
| exceeds that of any like period in all
| our history. In the year 1899 we bought
abroad upward Of $631. 0O0 worth Of
| goods, and in the same year sold abroad
$1,227, COO, giving a balance of trade in
| our favor of over S560, ,00OOO This means
| more labor at home, more money at
| home. more earnings at home Our pro-
| ducts are carried on every sea, and find
| market in all ports of the world In
| 1888 the Japanese government took from
| us $50 per cent of its total imports, and
! in 1898 1457 per cent
we are the greatest producers of pig
| iron and raise three-quarters of the cot
iron and steel exceed those of any other
country. The growth of tho railway sys-
TENS In the United States IS phenomenal
1S2,6O0 niles in 1897.
Our ship building has been greatly in
creased. For the first time in all our
! history the tonnage of our steam vessels
! exceeded on June the tonnage of all
our sailing vessels, barges and all other
craft We built in 1897 and 1898 more YES
! sells of steel than of all other material
combined. Our tonnage Increased during
! the latter year 100000 tons, and is without
a parallel in cur recent history. More
| large ocean steamships are under con-
struction in the United States than ever
| before. Our ship-building plants are be-
| ing enlarged and new establishments pro-
! Jected. There is no better time than the
present, therefore. with all these favor
! able conditions and others which will
suggest themselves TO you for the de-
veiopment for powerful merchant ma
| rine.
Our relations to other nations by rea-
| son OF our new possessions make this
duty even more commanding than it has
been. American shipping under the
! American flag should be found in all
| oceans, and our trade must go wherever
our flag goes. Our International COM
merce has even exceeded the growth Of
| our outward commerce
Our railroad transportation lines never
were so crowded, while our builders of
| cars and engines TIRE unable to fill the
| pressing orders made necessary by the in
| creased tariffs. We have everything, gen.
| tlemen, to congratulate ourselves as 10
! the present condition of the country The
only fear l have ever had Is that we
might overdo it; and that really we weree
| not exercising that conservatism that is
so essential to substantial business. You
| business men doubtless would differ with
me to this fear and say it was ground
| less, but the boundl ssS prosperity we
| have had in the last year and u half
! made me fear that after all we might be
| OVERRIDING the business of the country
| (applause). [ trust l am mistaken, and
| I am told by business men everywhere
that the business of this country now
rests upon q substantial basis and that
| you are really only making what there IS
| a market for and as long as you do that
of course you are doing safe business
| and our markets are going to increase
| Applause)
Following President Mckinley, Mr.. Nc
| Cormick introduced Vice President Mar
| iscal of Mexico, who said
| Mr. President and Gentlemen: Being
| little of an eXtempore speaker, and an
| guage, 1 shall confine myself to thanking
| the distinguished chairman, for the eu-
| logy that he has made to President DiaZ.
| The eulogy is we'll deserved.
To realize the merit of the Mexican
| president it is enough to remember what