New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-23
DETROIT'.S CELEBRATION.
DINNER OF MICHIGAN CLUB, WITH sECRE-
TARY ALGER AS TOAsTMASTER-sENTI
MENTS OF SECRETARY WILSON.

Stripes are planted tonight in place where they
never have been before Washington's Birthday.
They have never been taken down from where they
had been planted but once before: and they never
will be again
Such was the characteristic utterance Of Gen
eral Russell A Alger Secretary OF War. on assum-
Ing the function OF POSTMASTER tonight at the
fourteenth annual banquet OF the Michigan Club
/ The Secretary introduced by Brigadier-Gen-
eral Henry NJ. Duffeld. president Of the club who
said
Among the Secretaries who have held up the
hands Of the President none have done more diff
cult more arduous better work and none have
been bearing heavily the brunt Of the night
throughout. than your own beloved fellow citizen.
General Aiger."
When the POSTMASTER arose he greeted with
enthusiastic cheers from FIVE hundred Republicans
of Michigan who sat the banquet-tabie and
from the crowd in the galleries The Secretary
congratulated the citizens OF the United States
upon their intelligence. loyalty and patriotism
shown the last year. and upon the fact that the
. financial tide had turned so that the Nation which
was once borrower. is now on top in financial
sense Secretary Alger said We have some hard
| propositions TO solve. but have solver in Wash
| ington."
General Duffied in his opening address. char
/ acterized President Mckinley as the peer Of Wash
| ington and Lincoln Governor Pingree made an
address Of welcome.
James Wilson. Secretary Of Agriculture, was
warmly greeted when he rose 10 respond 10 the
| toast Our Agricultural Interests.
WORDS OF SECRETARY WILSON.
In the course Of his speech Secretary Wilson
said:
The territory Of the original thirteen states is
We have been growing people spreaains people
an expanding people The Louisiana p1ren{aSe o. o.
States. The annexation OF Texas and New-Mexco
and other territory lying north Of those regions IN
! h. y
/ The Northwest Territory. discovered in 1872 ex-
plored in ls03 and secured by treaty in 1873 with
what is greatest timber reserve our
treaty with Mexico in lsis gave us what is our
! great fruit belt in California and the valleys Of
! the Rocky Mountains. as well as our great mineral
/ sections from which come our goa and shver
/ The Gadsden purchase now part o. Arizona ana
! New Mexico. was added IN 49, The territory OF
! Alaska, coded by Russia in l@' is iand OF I'M
mense possibilities. We are Just beginning TO learn
sn r. iu he seen Ihat rom The Revolutionary
war Il Up to 1851 the tinted States has been ex-
p panding And while II has been expanding II has
! been educating Our schools and colleges are pre-
/ pairing the brightest and most enterprising young
| most manufacturing people. are feeding con-
! siderable part Of the Old World. We are manu-
sending iron and steel to the Old World and with
this remarkabe CROWN IN teIgl,ody' educS l1ot
| purely Humanitarian sentiments The people Of the
/ tinted States interviewed between Spain and her
colonies to put an END 10 cond9ns lhat
and made more difficult the execution % interna-
'Wothing has occurred since the war was de-
cared to justify any man in stating that the
United States has departed in any respect ron ON
! clared war While the President did not seek the
ments quarter Of a million men We're mustered;
| equipped. and put in the field. The Islands o.
TIE Caribbean and China Seas conquered and
| brought under the American flag IN less than four
months T To t wai be T4qf s' Of bose 10
! disaster on sea land occurred minimum or
casualties. an object lesson given 10 the world in
warfare. merClfnl treatment or the people
| coming under authority. an insurrecuon among
higher than ever before in our history and all
| complaints Of the conduct Of the war met and
The events Of the year have been Of such magni-
tudea and nave to0wsG saSn of today
and the immediate future has left no time for re-
We have got TO the place in our EFFORTS 10 help
the people OF those islands in the Caribbean an, ano
and see what they are prepared 70 DO Tor them
selves. Those only are fit for complete -2caI seit,
s bov-s NE thai few peoples successfully govern
fhemselvee as the people OF the United States DO
There is no question Of the ability OF ne people
govern others Of less Intelligence Millions q
people have been absorbed into our system anG
made good citizens through our common scno 100
and by the education they receive IN contact WIN
me Presdent Is now sscertainng how compe-
tent the peoples Of those Islands are TO STAND a one
He is placing every cuban OF ositions Of hheT
or lower grade for the purpose OF deInonstra'; :
their CAPACITY anO NleSIll4 lAt 49,
Sre cleaned taxation IS being reduced. education
a. befng encouraged. and every incentive heid oul
JG S Io wall until an obiect-lesson could be gwen
In his case He turned upon ms sSvlor t''g ne,
aeeS no doubt by those among US VINO mss Lla'
Ss should have his Independence The word kno%.
that these people are not n ~ sor saw Eve them in
coincidence with a protectorate ina. mean - -.
the protector would be resPonslD5e he ,nusf cortro
tpeir bebavior toward the nations OF tIT W.
~ aSert ~ the Department OF Agriculture, Nsli
na 70 eSfdD4lSN dktAO.-S ~ 49,
M ' nrod,cts and 10 bring back seeds ana panls
desirable in the United States wrltes ne ma III III
the natives Of the Orient. I mere I'D nos Who
aspire leadership are men T q states mus
tegrity The authority or I'M IT, eJvcating uroces.
towari local self-government vii Ne 5s n Ul
througn 'he r1oy,rces and islands will be refqset
NJ svent1rers Everything possible VIII Dc cone
o o@ vhen thew began intervention tor numanl,y
sake The American peopie. o. w az The n5er.y
V, he mess has not degenerated into license so ~
IS in Lncolns day or n the ca a. ~ ,air niav ant
olS Sn ~ ruin has become National cnar
acterstic
The Two Poles OF Political Polity' was respond
Cd 10 by Frank o Lowden' OF chicago
HIGH TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT
r-.rk q 1owden. Of Chicago IN his speech. paid
this high tribute to the President:
often 4aasR that the S 9S5i PFo a 81 n.
~ I found In the advent OF Washington ana LIN,
lin in the two great crises OF THIS conlhhehtt o
StnL is next pest shown in the periods when az
s.a'iiacted FOR Democratic supremacy N IN ut.i.
tedium OF perfunctory official IRE the Deilo'a'' ~
psrtv has Seen permitted 10 rule -. ..,.- -,
TN United states Of America. during me year OF
~ ! ord 1895 in less than hundred Gays Lhos Inc
81 sS-,irfsfration Of William Mchin4ey H.ap,
o e Sistory and more glorious history man ,h'
nc marty in the century o. us eAIs
Deinsocn.nu he wears which preceded Fort sum
grim challenge we were drifting toward war al.
tel Lars before the explosion or the Name We
80 70 - uncoDsciOuslv toward war WIN SPAN
Bnf the hand Of Providence ino l We SngS Tba
Wa 49, beld in check until Repuohcah sh"uie
occupy the chair Of Washing'9 o. W en- 9WnKiney
Hers let me pay nv trloeie 10 alaa' si-ssf ~.
,, tieie na,ient calm. he has proved hlnissH tn'
highest type Of CHRISTIAN ruler p,ec6tafe Var
the oH ne other because he finally Perni.tSSd va