The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-20
PRESIDENT PRAISED.
Patriotic Chicagoans Applaud Phil
ippine Policy.
Mammoth Mass Meetings Manifest
Loyalty to the Administra-
tion-Ringing RcsOIu-
lions.

The Auditorium and Central Music
hall. Chicago, were filed to overflow
ing Sunday afternoon, May Z, with
thousands of cheering patriots who as
sembled to give utterance to their APP
proval of the policy of President Nc
KinIey towards the Philippine islands.
There were present many prominent
public men who were enthusiastic in
their efforts to fttingly observe the
occasion, and letters were received from
notab!es outside the city who could not
he present. Foremost among the
speakers at the Auditorium was Con-
gresham j. p. Dolliyer, of Iowa, who
said. in part:
81 have just come In with an umbrella
from an overflow meeting In Central Music
hall. put there to illustrate that the pa
triotism of this town. like the valor of our
soldiers and sailors. does not mind the
rainy season "a particle. tApplause) l
came here upon invitation of Judge Horton,
not because | specially desired to speak
TO YOU, but because thought l would like
10 look at you anyhow (applausel, for
thought l saw what was coming. 1t does
me- good.
we out in the country like to feel that
the government of the United States has
few cid friends left in town. (Applause.)
] do net intend to occupy the time given to
me by defending the government of the
United States. 1t needs no defense before
the patriotism of Chicago. In this coun-
try everybody has right to say exactly
what he pleases, and take the consequences
daughter). and all over this country there
are a lot of little fellows who are escaping
this day the odium of treason against the
United States only by reason of their in
significance. (Applause0
When a man undertakes TO attack his
country he ought at least to understand
the facts in the case and tell the truth about
3 il. ! undertake to say that the men WIG
are filling this country with noisy male
dctions against the president of the United
States are not familiar with the facts OF
our Philippine foot race. Gaughter)
They say that President Mckinley went
10 the Philippine islands for the purpose
OF subjugating them, and said when he got
there: Submit or die President McKin-
ley !s not the man that took the American
people TO the Philippine islands You have
a photograph of the man there (pointing
10 Admiral Dewey's pictureD (ApplauseD
They say that Mckinley wanted to go
there 10 exterminate those people. On the
contrary, on the Sth day of January he sent
TO Admiral Dewey and TO Gen. Otis
distinct order not to fire on those people
under any circumstances. but to treat them
with kindness and patience and ccnsdera-
ton. and get along with them in peace. On
the 18th of February, being duly advised
by certain humbug senators and repre-
sertatives in Washington (applause). on a
teleTraphc dispatch from gentleman by
the name of AGoncillo. who left town i'm
mediately, they fired on US. There We're
grca; many of us that didn't like TO see
those poor people fired upon. but there
wasn't one Of us, so far as have been able
TO lind out, that felt that we were under
any obligation to run from that particular
kind Of people. (Applause)
Praises Gen. Funston.
Il picked up yesterday as l was coming
down here letter written to the Topeka
Capital by a young man from Kansas who
learned to swim In an old swimming hole
down there on the banks of Deer creek. in
kanSas-Gen. Funston. (ApplauseD He
Is not particularly an enemy of liberty.
With all due respect to college professors,
there Is not college professor in America
that loves liberty any better than Brother
Funston. What does he say? L am afraid
that some people at home VIII lie awake
Al nights worrying about the ethics of this
war Liberty simply means to them IL
censc TO raise - "a voice: "H-lD
That is the way 1t looks. and IL they get
control they would raise fine crop of 1t.
They are. as a rule, an illiterate, semi-sav-
age people. who are waGing war, not
against tyranny, but against Anglo-Saxon
oidc" and protection.
AguinaIdO "a Dictator.
who is Agunaldo? He is young man.
y years old What is the Philippine repub-
lie? II is the dictatorship of Aguinaldo.
have here the constitution of the Philip
pine republic, laid before our Paris COM
mission during its sessions last August. |
want TO read to you the tenth article of the
constitutions: (Reads) Article 10-The
president of the republic is the persona
ication of the Philippine people, ana in
accordance with this idea ii shall not be
possible TO hold him responsible while he
holds he Office (ApplausC.)
THAT Is the government about which
this hubbub of liberty is raised. love the
American flag, and am glad to see II here.
We have trusted our lives to It, We are
willing to-day to trust our children and Our
chilGrcns childrcn-all we have and all we
hora fOr-to the institutions and the flag of
the United States. And yet, there are men
in this city VINO are teaching the youth that
there is more hope for liberty in the proc
lamation Of the haf-naked Malay subject
than there is in the flag of the American
republic. / say that such a man is not only
a lttlt one, but not loyal enough to be
called an American. (Applause)
Nations broader Future.
why shouldn't the American people now
step out into the arena of this worlds az
fairs and do something for the progress OF
the human race? (ApplauseD | don't know
how YOU people are fixed on theology, but
/ wouldn't live In this world unless l felt
that there was upon the progress of so
could not go, even under divine guidance.
in any direction without carrying with us
human slavery and the clank OF chains.
To-day, wherever we go, we go as
united and strong people. don't know how
it - ms to you, but il seems perfectly
crcdble~to me that the good providence
of God having united the American people
under a firmer and better union, Is about
TO use the republic as an instrument In
the divine hand for enlarging the area
OF civilization and for widening the out
look of human liberty; for making new out
posts for social progress in the ends OF the
eartE, And IL that should be our destiny
and that our duty, l want the statesman
ship of these times to approach those re-
sponsibilties our army and navy APP
proach theirs, in the fear of God. as old
Bismarck used to say, and of nothing else.
Tribute to Mckinley.
II believe in our great republic. back
the United States of America against the
world. (Applause.) Nor do hesitate to |
say that since the good days of Abraham
Lincoln there has not been at the helm
of our affairs a steadier. kindlier. Drawer |
hand than the hand of William Mckinley,
president of the United States" Gap