The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

may see fit. In one thing, / think, we are
all agreed-that when the line of our duty
there has been determined it must be dis
charged as becomes great, free and liberty
loving nation. Whether or no we have so
willed the days of our international isolation
are past. 1t does not follow that the advice
or the immortal Washington to avoid en-
tangling alliances is less potent to-day than
when the words were written. The Ameri-
can citizen has right to so wherever trade
ana enterprise may legitimately seek an out
let for the product of American thrift and
industry and there must follow, if need be,
the overshadowing protection of the flag"
Referring to President Mckinley, Judge
Day said; THE bar has just pride in the
fact that we carry on our rolls the name
Of one whose entire professional career was
with US and of US, the President Of the
United States. l would not encroach on the
field of my distinguished friend who is to
respond TO the sentiment in his honor, but
[ cannot forbear an expression of satsfac-
ton that the verdict Of his countrymen, no
less than the approving judgment of the
world, gives him the first place among the
great men who have filled that high Office.
History can never adequa tely tell the story
OF the devotion with which he has given
ms Gays and nights to the service of his
country. With war clouds gathering and
threatening when he took the oath of his
great office he bent all of his energies to the
amelioration of the condition of the people
of the Gem of the Antilles. Seeking not TO
avoid responsibility hoping TO accomplish
his ends by peaceful measures and resolv-
ing that only as last resort should the
country again open the purple tentament
OF bleeding war When war became inevi-
table, bending every energy to its vigorous
prosecution by land and sea the command
er-in-chief, in fact as in name, of an army
and a navy whose deeds are unparalleled in
the history of warfare, and have made the
fact of American citizenship a passport to
the respect, if not the affection of all the
peoples of the world. His guiding hand was
in the proceedings which led up to and
through the negotiations which eliminated
in the treaty signed in Paris on the 10th of
December.
Under our Constitution and policy COM
missions to treat of peace are but the rep
resentatives of the executive Modern ia
cilities of communication made it possible
TO keep the President constantly advised of
the proceedings and deliberations of the
commission. Intelligence of the signing of
the treaty of Client did not reach Washing
ton until after the bloody battle of New
Orleans had been fought on the 9Th of jan
uary, two weeks after the signing of the
treaty which would have ended the strife.
The ink was scarcely dry upon the last
treaty of Paris until the knowledge of its
execution was flashed beneath the sea and
carried on the wings of lightning to the re-
hottest villages of the land"
Other addresses were delivered as fol-
lows: american Diplomacy" Hon J.
living Brooks, of Salem; The President"
Judge Isaac II. Taylor, of Carrollton:
Bench and Bar Judge T. 7. McCarty:
THE Army and Navy Col James J. Clark.
President Mckinley sent regrets as fol-
lows: 1T would be a real pleasure to join
with my brethren of the Stark county bar
as proposed by Them in doing honor to
feel a just pride, but pubic engagements
Will prevent. Those who have for years
been engaged with him in legal contests
We're not surprised at his great record at
the head of the Department of State in
Washington and his no less brilliant one
in the peace negotiations in Paris 1t has
been given to but few men TO achieve so
much in so short a time He returns TO
you with exceptional distinction fairly won,
and with you ] join most heartily in affec-
Tomato congratulations. I wish for all my
old associates happy New Year"