Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-14
IN MEMORY
OF LINCOLN
Speeches by Heroes and
Statesmen.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW'S GRAFTON
He Follows General Miles md Rear
Admiral SchIey and Closes with
an Eloquent Discussion OF tha
Philippines Question, I'm which
He Forcshadows seIf>Govcrnment
Tribute TO valor.
py Telegraph to v,rsinIan-Pno.,

(By Telegraph to Vlrginlan-Pllot.)
New York, Feb. 13.-The Republican
club of this city. held its annual dinner
in honor OF Abraham Lincoln at Del
monico's tonight. About 375 guests
and members OF the clubs were pres
ent. Among those present were Gov
ernor Roosevelt, Horace White, Major
General Nelson a. Miles. Rear Admiral
w. S. Schey and Ex-Governor Morton.
Kinley regretting his inability to be
present and eulogizing the memory of
Lincoln.
The postmaster was Senator elect
Chauncey NJ. Depew.
THE State of New York" was res
defended the administration course in
the Philippines.
Major General Miles and Rear Ad-
fniral Schlcy spoke on the army and
navy respectively. Chairman Depew
made an address. closing as follows:
The United States will not go be-
yond this continent for new stars for
our flag or new States for our Union.
Cuba may in time be the exception be-
cause of its proximity to our shores,
and because Il ferry will be run be-
tween our coast and that beautirul
island. But that event will not occur
until American emigration and settle
ment have made free Cuba n prosper
Gus American Republic, with Ameri-
can ideas, American institutions and
American spirit. and clamoring for ad-
mission as fully demonstrated Amer
lean State 10 the American Union. Far
distant countries. peopled by alien
races with alien civilizations, will
never be incorporated as part of our
governing body. / believe that the I'M
trled experiment of American law and
justice will, when understood in the
Philippines, gradually educate these
peoples to the point where they can
safely entrusted with the management
OF their own affairs. Native armies
and native police. differed by Amer
lean officers and supported by the rev.
enues of the islands in which they
serve, will keep the peace and protec,
lives and properties. American courts
and American schoolhouses will rear q
generation which can appreciate the
value of liberty. which does not mean
license. but does mean law.
While the United States is meeting
the destiny and fulfilling the mission
which God has so mysteriously de-
volved upon It, the American Congress
will formulate laws and organize gov.
ernments for these new possessions
which. while developing them, will pre-.
vent any interference with the rights OIL
the position or the income of Ameri.
can labor. On the contrary these new
possessions and the foothold we have
In them for the extension of our trad.
VIII open the markets of the far Eas
and the markets in these islands to tn,
products of our fields and our factories
Abraham Lincoln struck the key nott
of American development when he sale
that the civil war must be prosecuted
until the Mississippi river runs un
veXed to the sea-" He saw that Will,
the United States was the creates
market within itself of the world, tn,
surplus of our production must becom,
20 great that to prevent suffocation w,
must seek and find the countries anc
the people which would need the pro
ducts OF our labor.
TRIBUTE TO VALOR.
When the echoes OF the guns of tn,
American navy and the American army