Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-18
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Hearty Enforcement of the Dewey
Home Subscription Plan.

Hearty Enforcement of the Dewey
Home subscription Plan.
CHICAGO, May T.-At the annual meet
ing OF the Associated Press here, to-day.
the following were elected directors:
William s. Mclean. Philadelphia Bulle-
tiE, vice Clayton McMichael. resigned; A.
J. Barr. Plttsburg Post; l.. Markbreit
| Cincinnati volks Blatt; Clark Howell, At
lanta Constitution.
ADVISORY BOARDS.
The following advisory boards were
| chosen:
Eastern Division-st. Clair McKelway
Brooklyn Eagle (chairman); Charles H.
Taylor Boston Globe; Clarke Davis, Phil
adelphia Ledger; A. p. Langtry, Spring
field Union; Ambrose Butler, Buifao
News.
Central Division-George Thompson. st.
Paul Dispatch lchairman); u. M. Houser,
st. Louis Globe-Democrat; s. II. Wilder,
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune; II. S.
New. Indianapolis Journal; L. Rosewater.
Omaha Bee; John Hicks, Oshkosh North
western.
Western Division-H. W. Scott, Portland
Oregonian (chairman); h. 3. Piper
Seattle Post-Intelligencer; II. II. Lannan.
Salt Lake Tribune; Hugh Hume, San
Francisco Post; X. G. Cooper. Denver
Republican.
Southern Divlsion-H. II. Cabaniss. At
lanta Journal (chairman); Page VI. Baker,
New Orleans Times-Democrat; c. p. j.
Mooney, Memphis Commercial-Appeal;
| George w. Ochs. Chattanooga Times; G.
II. Basket. Nashville Banner.
DEWEY HOME SUBSCRIPTION.
This resolution was unanimously adopt
| ed:
Resolved That the Associated Press
notices with pleasure the encouragement
/ by the newspapers throughout the coun-
| try of the proposition made by Rear-Ad-
| miral Upshur TO the Brooklyn Eagle that
| a home be secured for Admiral Dewey at
the national capital by public subscription.
Resolved, That we recognize in the
National Committee Of the Dewey House
Fund q fitting body to which 10 send the
funds secured by subscriptions secured by
newspapers from their readers and from
other sources, and that we commend the
object and the method without reserve
to the newspapers and periodicals Of the
the United States
The business meeting was followed by
the annual banquet, at which ST. Clair
McKeway, Esq, spoke in part as follows:
MY Friends,-As newspaper men, we
meet at an interesting time in our call
ing A year ago we were called on to
face the novelty of war. 1t is novelty,
at any period, thanks to the increasing
spirit and habit of peace in the world. TO
most of us. it was an absolute novelty,
for the nation had not fired shot in
anger in all our years of work.
There was unreadiness in our offices for
CO xrrau 10, he q NJ art
ment. There was an inadequacy Of STAFF
organization. so to speak. in our Offices
for the duties devolving on US. But so
there was In the same department. And
In our cases that inadequacy was repair
ed. New functions and new forces were
eXtemporized-and not found wanting.
New blood was sought and found New
methods were devised. And no commits
sion of investigation and no court OF in
quiry have been ordered TO sit upon our
derelictions, TO pass on our incidental
errors. or 10 sift our mistakes Of the past
for the greater security and su.iiciency
of the future.
CRITICS OF EXPANSION.
1T must be admitted that the unity Of
the press, the substantial unity OF the
press, for the war, has not been followed
by absolute unity among its members on
ever, have commanded that respect even
with newspapers. which they generally
command everywhere. There is no news
paper which believes that we are in Porto
Rico ever TO get out. We are there 10
stay There is none which believes that
we are in Cuba 10 get out-soOn. / think
we will stay there about as long as Great
Britain will stay in Egypt, and that Great
Britain will stay in Egypt about Ions
as the Anglo-SaxOn race has a habit Of
staying where IL settles down. | am will
ing TO differ from my brethren on this
subject. but as my estimate has been
only comparative perhaps there is less
room for difference than might super
ficially appear. The duration Of our stay
i'm the Philippines is prodigiously debated.
While the debate goes on, we stay. If
the debate comedies with our stay, /
think it will be protracted debate. $50
PHILIPPINE FUTURE.
II take it. we are going to hold those
islands. l doubt not we shall find diff
Guilty. Difficulties, however, alter not du-
ties. No man living knows what we will
do with them or should do with them, for
we are learning as we so along. The sit
uation was not of our making, could not
be of our preventing, and will not be one
which we will abandon or run away from
The Philippines are a finality. We have
them and we hold them. We will govern
them under the universal right and obli-
cation of the capable to govern the in
capable cast upon their hands. We will
do to them the good which the Pilgrim
and the Quaker the HuguenOt and the
Cavalier, would have done to the Indians,
had the Indians had sense enough to ac-
cept it, They had not. and the rest fol-
lowed. Good, or the consequences of the
rejection of it, will follow in the Philip
pines The world will not stop; 1t will 20
| right Oh. The higher races will school or
| harness the lower ones to the work Of
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