The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-25
TO BE HELD in TRUST
President McKinley's Ideas Re-
garding the Philippines.
First Public Utterance on the sub
ject Made at banquet I'm Boston
Declares He Has No Inn
perialistic Designs.

Boston, Feb. 17.-President William
Mckinley arrived in Boston Thursday
club at banquet in his honor at Me-
chanics hall. Messrs. Long, Alger,
Bliss, Gage and Smith, of his cabinet,
accompanied him, together with Con-
gresham Grosvenor, of Ohio. The ar
rival of the presidential train at the
south terminal station at ten o'clock
was the occasion of great outburst of
enthusiasm from the thousands OF citi-
zens who lined the streets on the line
Of the procession from the station to
the hotel. The remainder of the day
after the arrival at the hotel was spent
in quietude by the president until
4:15, when he was escorted to Me-
chanics hall to participate in the re-
ception and banquet of the Home Mar
ket club. The president to-day will
visit the G. a. II. encampment, dine at
the Algonquin club, hold reception
there, drive from the clubhouse to the
at $40 p. m.
AZ the Bunquet.
The browning event of the day and the
principal feature of the presidents
visit to Boston was the banquet ten
dered 40 him by the Home Market club
at Mechanics hall Thursday night. 1t
was the largest banquet ever arranged
in this country, the exact number of
persons who were served being 1914.
f,,11
spectators in the balconies.
The invocation was pronounced by
Bishop Malalieu. There was great en-
thusiasm when the dinner had been
concluded and some of the tables re-
moved to make way for chairs. Presi-
dent Plunkett introduced Gov. Wolcott
and then Mayor Quincy, who made
brief addresses welcoming the presi-
dent. President Mckinley was then
introduced and spoke as follows:
The Presidents Address.
"Mr. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen: The
years go quickly. 1t seems not so long, but
It is in fact six years since II was my honor
to be a guest of the Home Market club.
Much has happened in the intervening
us have been settled or put aside for larger
and more absorbing ones. Domestic condi-
tlOES nave improved, ana are peneTdlly SAT
isfactory. We have made progress in in
dustry, and have realized the prosperity
for which we have been striving. We have
had four long years of adversely, which
taught us some lessons which will never
be unearned. and which will be valuable
in guiding our future action. We have not
only been successful in our financial and
business affairs, but have been successful
N war with a foreign power which added
chapter to American history.
Some Mighty PrObIems.
81 do not know why in the year 1899 this
republic has placed before IL mighty prob
lens which II must face and meet. They
have come and are here, and they could not
be kept away. Many who were impatient
for the conflict year ago. apparently
needless of its larger results, were the first
to cry ouf against rhe tar Thn SonS bo
dreaded war most and whose every effort
was directed to prevent it, had fears of
new and grave problems which might fol-
low its Inauguration. The evolution of
events, which no man could control, has
brought these probe upon us. Certain II
fault on our own part, but as a high obliga-
ton, and we meet them with clear con-
science and unselfish purpose, and with
good heart resolve to undertake their solu-
ton.
War of an Undivided Nation.
"War was declared in April 1898, with
practical unanimity by the congress and,
o t,t, upon u.s. was sustainsd by IKE uhan,
many who had tried to avert 1t as, on the
other hand, there were many who would
In it's prosecution and conclusion the great
ma jority of our countrymen of every sec
ton belic!ed they were fighting in, a just
cause, anc at home or on sea, or in the field
they had part in the glorious triumphs, 1t
was the war of the undivided nation.
to Santiago, from Guam to Porto Rico met
universal and hearty commentator The
protocol commanded the practically unan-
NJ A ri
was welcomed by every lover Of peace be-
meath the flag.
VIII Not Finch.
1.-The Philippines. like Cuba and Porto
Rico, were intrusted to our hands by the
providence Of God and in the name OF hu-
man progress and civilization, we are COM
it is not a trust from which we will finch.
The American people will hold up the hands
of their servants at home to whom they
Otis and the brave men whom they COM
mand Will have the support OF the country
IN upholding our flag where i now floats:
the symbol and assurance of liberty and
justice: no,,or w,. ovor .,,o mite
which 1t was entering. much less decree in
advance the scope of its results? Congress
ts sp h a ds
the movements of soldiers on the field and
close OF such movements or prescribe their
limits He cannot anticipate or avoid the
consequences, but he must meet them.
No accurate map of nations en-
gagged in war can be traced until the war is
over, nor can the measure of responsibility
be fixed till the last gun is fired and the YER
dict embodied in the stipulat ions of peace
Must Not Go Back to Spain.
I'VE hear no complaint of the relation
created by the war between this govern
ment ana the islands of Cuba and Porto
Rico. There are some, however, who re-
gard the Philippines as in different rela-
ton; but, whatever variety of views there
may be on this phase of the question there
is universal agreement that the Philippines
mall not be turned back 10 Spain. No true
american consents TO that. Even IL UNI
willing to accept them themselves, IL would |
have been weak evasion of manly duty to
require Spain to transfer them ITO some |
other power or powers, and thus shirk our |
own responsibility. Even IL we had had,
as we did not have, the power to compel |
such transfer, IL could not have been
made without the most serious information
al complications.
such a course could not be thought of. |
and yet, had we refused to accept the ces-
sion OF them we should have had no power |
over them. even for their own good. We |
could not discharge. the responsibilities up |
on US until these islands became ours either |
BY. conquest or treaty. There was but one |
alternative, and that was either Spain or |
other suggestions showed first that they |
should be tossed into the arena for the |
strife OF nations: or, second, be lost to the |
anarchy and chaos of no prOt ec ora a at alI Il