The Anaconda standard., 1899-10-13
A CENTURY OF PROGRESS
President McKinley's Theme at
Minneapolis.
GROWTH OF THE COUNTRY
The Government OF the Philippines
VIII Not Be Ruled ss Vassals or
Ser!s CT Slaves
the Soldiers.

Minneapolis. Mimi, Oct 12-Pres-
dent Mckinley and party arrived in
this city at IL o'clock to-day. An i'm
mense crowd had assembled at the de-
pot. AS the chief executive merged
from the train tremendous cheering be-
gan and was taken UP by the waiting
crowds and carried down the line for
blocks. Carriages conveyed the presi-
dent and cabinet to the home Of Thomas
j. Lowery, where luncheon was served.
Meanwhile the trains bearing home the
l3th Minnesota volunteers from tha
Philippines arrived. The regiment
formed in line at the head Of Nicollet
avenue. Carriages bearing President
Mckinley and his party took positions
at the head of the column.
The procession moved shortly after |
o clock, passing down Nicollet avenu3
to the center of the city. At Tenth
street the president entered the review
ing stand and the Philippine veterans
passed before him.
ing stand, the president drove to the
Exposition building, where was spread
feast for the veterans.
At the conclusion of the banquet
President Mckinley was introduced by
President Northup Of the University Of
Minnesota. The president said:
THE century now drawing to a close
has been most memorable in the worlds
progress and history. The march of
mankind in moral and Intellectual ad-
vancement has been onward and up
ward. The growth of the worlds ma
terial interests is so vast that the fig
ures would almost seem to be drawn
fnrfy oly,N nf t,nt, nn,s
than from the field of fact. All peo-
pies have felt the elevatng influences
of the country. Humanity and home
have been lifted up. Nations have been
drawn closer together in feeling and
interest and sentiment. The contact
has removed old prejudices at hame
and abroad and brought about better
understanding, which has destroyed
enmity and promoted amity. Civfliza-
ton has achieved great victories and to
the gospel of good will there are now
few dissenters. The great powers. un-
der the inspiration of the czar of Rus
sia, have been sitting together In par
lament of peace. seeking to find a COM
mon basis for the adjustment of con-
troversies without war and waste
While they have not made war lmpos-
sible. they made peace more probabla
and have emphasized the universal love
of peace.
ton.
while it has not given us perfect
peace, it has brought US constant and
ever increasing blessings and imposes
upon us no humiliation or dishonor.
We have had wars with foreign powers
and the unhappy one at home-but all
terminated in no less Of prestige or
honor or territory, but gain in ALL
The increase of our territory has
added vastly to our strength and pros
perity without changes in our repub-
lican character. 1t has given wider
scope to democratic principles and en-
larged the area for republican institu-
tons
'I sometimes think we do not realize
what we have and the mighty trust we
have committed to our keeping The
study of geography and history have
now more than passing interest 70
the American people 1t is worth read
ing that when the federal union was
formed, we held a09765 square miles Of
territory. and in less than 100 years
we have grown to 3,S45,515 square
miles.
THE first acquisition, in 1903, known
as the Louisiana purchase, embraced
SS3072 square miles exclusive of the
area west OF the Rocky mountains. Its
vastness and value will be best under
stood when | say it comprises the en-
tire states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa,
Nebraska. South and North Dakota
and parts of the states OF Minnesota,
Kansas. Colorado, Montana, Wyoming.
Louisiana, all of Indian Territory and
part of Oklahoma. 1t seems almost
to the present generation
that this rich addition to the federal
domain should have been opposed; and
yet it was resisted in every form and
by every kind of assault. The ceded
territory was characterized as ma
arial swamp, it's prairies destitute OF
trees or vegetation. 1t was commonly
charged that we had been cheated by
giving $15,00O,0 600 for a territory so
worthless and pestilential that it could
never be inhabited or put to use. ana
it was also gravely asserted that the
purchase would lead to complications
and wars with European powers. In
the debate in the senate over the trea-
ty distinguished senator from Con-
necticut said:
1.-The vast and unmanageable estate
which the Louisiana acquisition will
give the United States, the constant
of our population and the
destruction of that balance which lt
is SO important to maintain between
the eastern and western states. threat
ems at no very distant day the SUD-
version of our union.
"A distinguished senator from Deia-
ware said:
But as to the Louisiana. this new.
immense. unbounded world. if il should
ever be incorporated into the union, or
which / have no idea and which can
only be done by amending the consti-
tuition, l believe it will be the greatest
curse that could at present hefall US.
It may be productive of innumerable
evils, and especially one that l fear TO
ever look upon. Thus our citizens will
be removed to the immense distance
IF two orthlee thousand miles from the
.apital of the union of which they will
scarcely ever feel the rays of the gen
.ral government, their affections win
,a alienated--they will gradually begin
% view US as strangefs-they Will
orm other commercial connections and
,ur interests will become distinct and
do say that under existing circum-
tances, even supposing that this ex
ent of territory was desirable aequi-
ition fifteen millions of dollars was a
most enormous sum to give