New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-18
" PRESS AND THE TIMES
ADDRESS BY ST. CLAIR MKELwAY AT AS
sOCIATED PRESS BANQUET.
HOW NEWSPAPERS TREATED THE WAR AND iiS
REsuLTs-DUTY or THE NATION TO HOLD
THE PHILIPPINES

Chicago Nav 1.-THE annual banquet of The AS
ISOLATED Press was held at the Auditorium Hotel
tonight. Speeches were made by 81. CAR Mchei-
way of The Brooklyn Eagle" General Ihohas al.
Anderson L. S. A. General Charles H. iayioI Vi
THE Boston Globe James H. Eckes' eN-ooh-
troier OF the Currency; stephen O'Meara' OF ihe
Boston Journal" L. Markbreit OF Ihe cincinnati
VolksbIaat;'' Harvey w. Scott, of The Portland
Oregonian"; X. NJ Johnson, OF the houston
Post" and Frank p. McLennan OF Ihe IopeKa
Journal" In the course OF his speech the lhe"e Oh
which was Press and the Times" ST. clair NC
Ke.way, who was received with much enthusiasm
said:
This war found indssoluble Union OF indie
structbe States compact Of purpose sen fGb De e
story of participation In the duties and OF risht IN
the honors of that conflict our own ca a SS ho
story of the itself was our participation IN ~
and the right and the true telling OF IT Is our clam
that has been we'll done There was unreauintss IN III
9 war OeSs lDT ne There was an
staf organization, so TO speak IN our oCes tpr e
es in our that made
quacy was repaired. New functions and new io H
blood was sought and found. New methods were
devised. And commission of inyestigat ', ana
no court OF inquiry have been ordered TO slt upon
dereictlons to pass on our incidental errors.
or to SIT our mistakes Of the past for the greater
wish, in all seriousness. TO say that me press Oh
The ua states 6sS In ae our
large as ninety-five out Of every hundred. sus-
a psG he for that if by %nS and fully
1t. They exhibited the not undesirable exceptions
which Illustrated the general excellence OF our
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 the results OF the war fxed d fac ,1
newspa pers. which they generally command every
where hep T is no p GET ot We are there
to stay There is none which believes that we are
Il Tus about 1G ss' long Great Britain viii stay in
Egypt. and that Great Britain Will stay In Egypt
oPogt as long MAS ss ne ssns Down The duration Of
our stay In the Philippines is prodisiously debated
c %f ess with ff" our stay think It will be
mind whether we like them not One is that
the M is the Of ne be- Sea es
tended over the Territories by legislation Another
under s" the powers which this Nation has Ma
ton, and which 1t has without regard 10 r Us ISn-
ton had them when IT declared Its independence
and before it made its Constitution. In those
fence, Of aggression and OF conquest. The consti-
tuition divided up certain powers among ,he o.a, S
our Nationality nor limits our National powers IN
dealing with other nations. The territories w n
stituton in the ways by law provided. but they
can come In IN no SineT n bcv a may have rights
but they are constitutional rights. They may
surfer wr1 bey uH' UNDER the control Of our Ma
ton, as Nation. and OF our Goyernment az me
representative of a Nation In Its Nationa! as Wen
as in It's strictly defined constitutional powers;
Another thing to bear in mind Is that We coulo
not leave Spain In the Philippines and could NOT
restore the Philippines to Spain without making
ourselves worse than Spain In history ana WIN.
out putting or leaving National enemy TO Work us
harm I'm the very heart OF the commercial world
of the Far East. need not talk TO those VINO
think that the Fillpinos capable OF seif-gov-
eminent. Men who can believe that can peIeoe
ANYTHING. The Filipnos comprise many tribes az
odds with and strangers TO one another,. dlHefns
I'm religion In language and In habits ana some OF
of which ead-hunting and cannibasm are per.
haps the mildest variations. The more lnteIneet'
OF them who have unwisely confronted our rooPs
are led by men who will be without occupallon
IN market Those who can regard them as heroes.
natrots as virtuous and as Intelligent reseHipie
The lecturer whose boast 1t was that he MADE ms
facts as he went along All the evidence Is asainS'
them. ,,, 49,. ,.,onds r
take it. we are going to hold those ISLANDS:
doubt not we shall find difficulty: Difhcultles, nov"
ever alterAnot duties. No man living knows what
we will do with them or should do with tnem LOT
not Of our making could not be OF our preventing
and will not be which we Will abandon OF r Is
away from The Philippines are nnamV we
| have them and we hold them we VII tosetx ~
them under the universal right ana opngat'om -,
| The capable govern the Incapable, cast upon p
| their hands We will do them the good whicn me
| pilgrim and the Quaker. the Huguenot ana me
Cavalier would have done to the lndlans nau tIle
Indians had sense enough to accept H. hey nau
not and the rest followed: Good, or the cohseo
nuences Of the rejection OF 1t. will follow IN the
| philippines. The world will not stop; IL VIII go
right on. The higher races Will school or hanne r
the lower the work OF the ages ana AMER tha
| can newspapers should not cautiously forget that
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