Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-14
IN MEMORY OF ABE LINCOLN
Annual Dinner of the Republican
Club of New York is
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| NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The Republican
| club this evening held its annual dinner in
honor of Abraham Lincoln at Delmonico's s.
! About 27h g,,oSts ord ,nombors of +b, o,rh
| - -, -' 80 - -. ,',.l ~
were present among wnom were Governor
Roosevelt, horace Whlte, MAJOR General
! Nelson A. Miles, Rear Admiral Schley and
ex- Governor Morton A letter was read from
President MCKINLEY.
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! For fourteen years the Republican club
has celebrated the birthday of Abraham Liu-
coin. At each annual recurrence we have
| paid loving tribute to the memory of cne of
the most marvellous men, r-sighted states
man and the greatest republican who ever
lived. Our meetings having upon the plat
form the representative men of our party,
have crystallized republican opinion and
sometimes set the pace for the passage of
republican measures
One year ago we expressed our confidence
! in the president and our faith in his ad-
ministration. The basis OF our judgment
was his record and demonstrated ability in
formulating and defending the industrial
policy of our party. Tonight we are proud
of his wisdom and craftsmanship in the con-
duct and settlement of our war with Spain
From February ~, 1898, to February 12
1897 mas been an epoch making year. The
story of many decades will be told in para
graphs compared with the pages that will be
required by the historian to describe the
events and picture the results of this year
The United States will not go beyond this
continent for new stars for our flag or new
states for our union. Cuba NAV in time he
the exception because of it's proximity to our
shores and because a ferry will be run be-
tween our clast and that beautiful island
But that event will not occur until American
emigration and settlement have made free
Cuba prosperous American republic. with
American ideas, American institutions and
American spirit and clamoring for admission
as a fully demonstrated American state to
the American uniop
Far distant countries peopled nv alien
incorporated as part of our governing BODY.
l believe that the untried experiment of
American law and Justice will when under
stood in the Philippines, gradually educate
These peoples to the point where they can
their own affairs. Native armies and a
native police force, oficered by American
thn ;.I anu suppoi1eu p,,, ny tne revenues Oh
~ $50" S ~ IA a.. ".n ny ny se.s VII ksep
h,orioa oo,,n. ~ oniS a',u ,S, Us
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nrs,o, S;, upUi ~ tne AlieilIan
W,ii ror @ laws ana oIeanlze
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o,i m,.,.e .neh VIII PreVeht
si @ny Lei enee WIN tne liEnts or 'ne posi-
the ttle VI nm, lean Ul
s.,,, SoiI' 81 these ne" PossessIons anu the
- "tiioiu We nave III theIii lol 'ne extension
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a. ~ eaSt atu tue MAJ hIts III these islanus 10
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NllssIsslPpi river runs uhveXed 70 the sea-
ne re saw Inat whlie the Gnlted states was
tne sieatesC lnarhet WITHIN itseii OF the
"oiiu, 'ne surplus VI our PrJuuctiCu must
pecoIln 30 great that TO prevent sutocation
we we NUS seth anu hnu Lhe countries ana the
people "nich would neeu the products OF our
iapor'
The state of New York; was responded
to by Governor Roosevelt
No Time to shirk Duty.
Governor Roosevelt said in part
No sensible man will advocate our plung-
ing rashly into a course OF international
khlght eFrattry and set deliberately to work
no Dulld up a great colonial empire. But
neither VIII any brave and patriotic man bid
uas us snrthk INK from from DONG cur duty, merely be-
cause the duty involves the certainty Of
strenuous effort or the possibility or danger
some men or high principle, from high
motives, nave opposed the ratification of the
treaty, Just as they had previously opposed
the war, Just as some ether men whose mo-
tyes were equally high in 1861 opposed any
effort to restore the uncn by force OF arms.
The error was almost as great in the one
case as in the other and will be so adjudged
by history. The two main impulses which
gave strength to the opposition were ignoble
in their very esseuce-the impulse of sloth |
and fear. We should not lightly court dan
ger and difficulty, but neither should we |
shrk from facing them when in some way |
or other they must be met.
But II would be criminal folly to sacrifice
the real welfare of the islands and to fail to
do our own manifest duty under the plea of
carrying out some doctrinal idea which, if it
had been lived up to- would have made the