Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-18
PRESIDENT PRAISED.
Patriotic Chicagoans Applaud Phil
ippine Policy.
Mammoth Mass Meetings Manifest
Loyalty to the Administra-
tion-RinSing ResOIu-
tiOns.

SenDleu TO give ubleGdhct 10 tiVi' "P-
proval of the policy of President Me
kinley 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
notables outside the city who could not
be present. Foremost among the
speakers at the Auditorium was Con-
gressman ]. p. Dolliver, of Iowa, who
said. in part:
'I have Just come in with an umbrella
from an ovs rflow meeting in Central Music
hall. put there to illustrate that the pa
trotism of this town, like the valor of our
soldiers and sailors, does not mind the
rainy season a particle (Applause) |
came here upon invitation of Judge Horton,
not because I specially desired to speak
to you, but because | thought | would like
to look at you anyhow applause, for l
thought / saw what was coming. 1t does
me good
I'VE out in the country like to feel that
the government of the United States has a
few old friends left in town (ApplauseO
/ do not 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 a right to say exactly
what he pleases, and take the consequences
daughter, and all over this country there
are a lot of little felloss who are escaping
this day the odium of treason against the
United States only by reason of thelz IN
significance. (Applause)
when q man undertakes to attack his
country he ought at least to understand
the facts in the case and tell the truth about
it. ! undertake to say that the men who
are filling this country with noisy male
dictiOnS against the president of the United
States are not familiar with the facts of
our Philippine foot race. UaughterD
They say that President Mckinley went
to the Philippine islands for the purpose
of subjugating them, and said when he got
there: Submit or die President Mckin-
ley is not the man that took the American
people to the Philippine islands. You have
a photograph of the man there (pointlng
TO Admiral Dewey's pictureD (Applause)
They say that Mckinley wanted to go
there to 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 cOnsidera-
tion and get along with them in peace. On
the 18th of February, being duly advised
by certain humbug senators and repre-
sentatives in Washington (applause), on
telegraphic dispatch from a gentleman by
the name of AgoncillO, who left town i'm
mediately, they fired on us. There were
those poor people fired upon, but there
wasn't one of us, so far as i have been BILE
to find out, that felt that we were under
any obligation to run from that particular
kind of people. (ApplauseJ
Praises Gen. Funston.
Il picked up yesterday as | was coming
down here a letter written to the Topeka
Capital by 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? / am afraid
that some people at home Will lie awake
at nights worrying about the ethics Of this
war. Liberty simply means to thers a IL
cense to raise - "a voice: "H-l'D
THAT is the way it looks, and if they get
control they would raise a fine crop of it.
They are, as rule, an illiterate, Semi-saV-
age people, who are waging war, not
against tyranny, but against AnSlo-SaXon
order and protection.
AguinaIdo Dictator.
"Who is Aguinaldo? He is a young man,
2S years old What is the Philippine repub-
lie? 1t is the dictatorship of Aguinaldo !
have here the constitution of the Philip
pine republic, laid before our Paris com
mission during it's sessions last August |
want to read to you the tenth article OF the
constitution: (Reads) Article 10-The
president of the republic is the persona
fication of the Philippine people, and in
accordance with this idea it shall not be
possible to hold him responsible while he
holds the Office (ApplauseD
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
children's children-all we have and all we
hope fOr-to the institutions and the flag OF
the United States. And yet, there are men
in this city who are teaching the youth that
there is more hope for liberty in the proc
lamation of the half-naked Malay subject
than there is in the flag Of the American
republic. | say that such man is not only
little 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 af-
fairs and do something for the progress of
| the human race? (ApplauSe.) ] don't know
how you people are fixed on theology, but
! wouldn't live in this world unless / felt
that there was upon the progress of So
| ciety the divine hand. Thirty years ago we
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
| credible 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
| earth. And if that should be our destiny
! and that our duty, / want the statesman
| ship of these times to approach those re-
! sponsibilitics as 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. l back
! the United States of America against the
world. (Appause) Nor GO | hesitate to
! say that since the good days Of Abraham
| Lincoln there has not been at the helm
| of our affairs steadier kindlier, Drawer
| hand than the hand of William Mckinley,
| president of the United States CAP
| plaL.se).
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
| IuynI Sentiments Expressed at the