The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-10-14
|GREAI BAnQUH IN y
CHICAGO AUDITORIUM
The Windy City Never Before Saw
Such a Gathering Of Dis
tingaished Visitors.
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
From Plymouth Rock 10 Phillip
pines, He Declares, the Grand
March of Freedom Has
Never Paused.

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auditorium, which has been the scene
OF SO many notable events, never held
o greater gathering than last night,
when the Chicago day banquet was
held within Its walls under the
auspices of the fall festival committee.
The great stage, upon which 1000.
people can easily find standing room,
had been enlarged and a great floor
built out over the seats of the parquet,
quadrupling the floor space of the
stage.
The president, who was the guest of
honor, sat at a raised table on the
right of Melville f. Stone, the toast
master,
Other distinguished guests were at
the same table, among them being
Vice President Don 1gnacio Mariscal,
of Mexico; Premier Wilfrid Laurier, of
Canada; General John C. Black, Gov-
ernor John r. Tanner, Mayor Carter
Harrison. Senior Manuel de Aspiroz,
Secretaries Hay, Gage, Smith, Long,
Hitchcock, Wilson, Attorney General
Griggs, General David b. Henderson,
Senator Penrose, Major General Mer-
rift, Senator Cullom. Brigadier General
Anderson. General Alger, Carl Dent
ger, Dir. Emil G. Hirsch, Minister to
Brazil Charles Page Bryan, w. l. Bu-
chanan, minister to the Argentine Re-
public, Japanese Minister Jutaro Ko-
mura, Senator Mason, Captain Eogh-
Ian, Sir Alphonse Pelletier, Senator Al
lison, Senator Mcmillan, Senator Nc
Emery, Commissioner General Ferdin-
and w. Peck and General Chambers
McKibbon.
The Tonstmaster's Address.
The material part of the banquet ac-
cupied two hours, and 1T was nearly 10
o'clock when Mr.. Stone raped for or
der and brought the intellectual por-
ton of the program to the front.
Governor Tanner then in a short adj
dress welcomed the visitors on behalf
of the state of Illinois. After he had
concluded Mayor Carter II. Harrison,
of Chicago, aud Senator Shelby NJ. Gull
lom, of Illinois, We're introduced by
Mr.. Stone, the former extending the
visitors the welcome of the people Of
the city and the latter a greeting on
behalf OF the people of illinois.
Presidents Address. rs
When the POSTMASTER rose to intro
duce the president, who responded to
the sentiment of "The Nations,' he
was greeted with cheers that for n
time prevented his voice from being
heard. When quiet had been restored
Mr.. Stone introduced President Me-
Kinley, who spoke MS follows:
"Mr. Toastmasterand Gentlemen: !
am glad to join you in extending a
sincere welcome to the distinguished
statesmen and diplomats who repre-
sent the great countries adjoining us
on the south and north. We are bound
to them by the ties of mutual good
neighborhood. We rejoice in their
prosperity and we wish them godspeed
i'll the pathway of progress they are
SO energetically and successfully pur-
suing.
st is impossible to trace our history
since the signing of the declaration OF
independence, the beginning of n new
American era, without feeling that the
providence which was with us in the
beginning has continued to the nation
his gracious interposition. When, hap
PLY, we have been engaged in war, he
has given us the victory. Fortunate,
indeed, that it can be said we have no
clash of arms which has ended in de
feat and no responsibility resulting
from war is tainted with dishonor. In
peace we have been signally blessed
and our progress has gone on TN
checked and ever increasing in the in
%tervening years. In bound1ess wealth
of soil and mine and forest, nature has
favored us, while all races Of men OF
every nationality and climate have
contributed their good blood to make
the nation what it is.
From {, 920,214 in 1890 II population
has grown to upwards of 62, 100000 i'll
1890, and our estimated population to-
day, made by the governors of states,
is n, sO3, 231. We have grown from
thirteen states to forty-five. We have
annexed every variety of territory,
from the coral reefs and cocoanut
groves of Key West to the icy regions
Of northern Alaska-territory skirting
the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, the
of the Pacific and Caribbean sea, and
we have extended still further onr ju.
risdiction to the far away islands in
the Pacific.
"Our territory is more than -four
times larger than it was when the
treaty Of peace was signed in 1898. Our
industrial growth has been even more
phenomenal than that of the popula.
ton OF territory. Our wealth, esti.
mated in 1900 at S462, 900, 900, has nd.
vanced to s65,0oO,ooo,o 900.
Education has not been overlooked
The mental and moral equipment oil
the youth on whom will in the future
rest the responsibilities of govern
ment, have had the unceasing and
generous care of the state and nation
"We expended in 1sD7-9s in public
education $256.s 9s. 1873. The number 81
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