Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-03-01
The MCKINLEY PRINCIPLE
Powerful SPEECH Of the President De.
liVercd In Boston.
Has Confidence In the American People The
Philippines viii be Held As the
People Direct.

Boston, Feb. lG.-Pres ident
William Mckinley arrived iu
Boston today to he the guest OF
the Home Market Club at a ban
quet 10 his honor at Mechanics
Hall. 1t was the largest banquet
ever arranged iu this country, the
exact number # persons who were
served being 1914.
There was great enthusiasm
when the dUner had beeu con
clided. Governor Wolcott, who
pr sided, AMI Ma ,r Quincy, made
brief Nd lr.ss g, welcoming thu
President. President Nc Kinley
was th-n intr,mu,-d aud spoke in
part as follows:
Mr.. Toast master and Gentle
meu: The years 70 gu ckly. 1t
seems not 30 long. but IT is in
fact six years since it WAS my
honor to he guest of the Home
Market Club. Much has hap
prned 10 the intervening time.
Issues which Were then engaging
us have been settle or put aside
for larg and m IRE absorbing
ones. Domestic copditi ms have
improved and are generally salts
factory. e.
| do not know why 10 the year
1899 this republic has unexpected
ly had placed before il might
problems which it must face and
meet. III y have come aud are
here, and they C uld not be kept
away. Many who were impatient
for the conflict year ago, spp,r-
emily heed ess of It's larger result,
were the ir-t TO cry out against
the fsr-reachiug c,n-equences Of
their own ac's. Those ut US who
dreaded war most, and whose
every eff IT was direcrei to pre-
veut it, had fears IF new anh
grave problems which mig ht fol-
low it- inauguration. The evolu-
ton of eve, Is which no man could
control brought these probl-,ns
upon us. Certain il i. tn It they
have Lot come through any fault
on our pat, but as high obligs
ton, and VIZ meet them w'tn n
clear conscience and unseltish
pu pose and with go d, hearty re-
solve to nnd .It,ke their solution.
THE WAR AND IT'S RESULTS.
"War was decl,,ed in April,
1898, with practical unauilDi'y by
the Congress, and, one. upon Us,
was sustaiuel by like unapimity
among the pc pie. -.
at WAS the war of the undivi-
ded nation.
Every great act in its progress
from Manila to Santiago, from
Guam to Porto Bic ), IN t univ-r-
sal and hear,v commentator.
The protocol com maud, d the prac.
tically uuan,m us approval OF the
American people. 1t was vel
coined by every lover of peace
beneath the tlsg. 's'h
"The Philippines, like Cuba
and Porto REQ, were intrnsted to
our hands by the war, and to that
great trust, under the province of
God aud in the name If human
progress and clvi izatiop, we are
committed. 1t is a trust we hav-
not sought; it is not rust from
which we will finch. -.
"What nation WAS ever able 10
W lite an accurate programme of
the war upon which it was enter
ing, much les decree in advance
the scope of its resuItsY Congress
can declare war, but higher
power DEGREES its boun 8 aud fix
it's relations and responsibilities.
The President Gao direct the
movements of soldiers GU the field
and fleets upon the sea, but he
cannot foresee the close OF such
movements or prescribe their
Limits. He cannot anticipate or
avoid the Consequences, but h..
must meet them. No accurate
map of nations engaged in war
can be traced until the war is
over, nor can the measure OF res
possibility be fixed TIL the last
gun is fired and the ve,dlct en- |
bodied in the stioulatious of peace.
AMERICA WILL KEEP PHILIPPINES.
I'VE hear no complaint Of the
relations created by this Govern
ment, and the islands of Cuba
and Porto Rico. al