The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-18
PRESIDENT MKINLEY And WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN ON SPEAKING TOURS
Chief Executive Does Not Believe
in Division Into Glasses.
SCORES FALSE SENTIMENT
Colt Players at Lake Forrest Desert the
Links in Expectation of
Speech, But They Were
Not Rewarded

Chicago, October 1.-THE train bearing
the presidential party from the north slip
ped into. Chicago at 2:40 o'clock this after
noon and left for Michigan points and the
east Immediately. As the train passed
through Lake Forest, the golf links were
deserted and the players surrounded the
station cheering Justify. A short stop was
made and President Mckinley bowed to
the throng, but there was no speaking.
In the course of his speech at Racine,
Wis, today, the president said:
81 have no sympathy with that sentiment
which would divide my countrymen into
classes. 1 have no sympathy with that
sentiment that would put the rich man on
the one side and the poor man on the other
labor on one side and capital on the other
(applausel, because all of them are equal
before the law, all of them have equal
power in the conduct of the government.
Every mans vote in the United States is
the equal of every other on that supreme
day when we choose rulers and congresses
and governors and legislatures. (Applause)
Our citizens may accumulate great wealth
and many of them do; but they cannot take
1t with them, can they entail 1t from
generation to generation. He who inherits
must keep it by his own prudence or sa-
gacity. If he does not it is divided up
among his fellows"
The president concluded as follows:
"Our thoughts, our prayers go to the
brave men in the distant islands of the sea,
who are upholding the flag of our country
in honor. And while they are doing that
We will uphold them. All hostilities will
cease in the Philippines when those who
commenced them will step, and they will
not cease until our flag, representing lib
erty, humanity and civilization shall float
triumphantly in every island of the archi-
pelago under the undisputed and acknowl-
edged sovereignty of the republic of the
United States.'' (Applause)
At Waukegan the president said:
Some people say the president is carry
ing unholy war in the Philippines
an unholy war to uphold the holy banner
of the free, which these children carry in
their hands and which represents the SOW
ereignty of the republic against those who
are attacking it. The people of the United
States never had an appeal made to duty
which was in VAIN
A large crowd turned out at Evanston,
the last stop before Chicago was reached.
The president said in part:
1.-THE authority of the United States Is
assailed in some of the islands of the Pa
cific. That authority will be established
in those islands The boys who carry our
flag in that distant sea will be sustained
by the American people ror the flag they
carry there Is the flag We carry here. 1T
is the flag of our faith and our purpose; 1t
is the flag of our love. 1t represents the
conscience of the country and carries with
ii wherever it goes good education, ciVili-
cation and liberty. And let those who will
lower it. Peace first and then government
afterward, giving the largest liberty posi-
BILE, but largest participation in govern
ment which the inhabitants are capable.
(Applause.)