The San Francisco call., 1899-11-01

credit Money is abundant in volume and un-
questioned in value.
Confidence in the present and faitn IN the
future are firm and strong and should not be
shaken unsettled. The people are DONG
business both principles and should be let
alone-encouraged rather than hlnoered III
their efforts to increase the trade Of the coun-
try and find new and profitable markets lot
their products. Manufacturing was never SO
active and so universally enjoyed throughout
all the States. Work was never SO abundant
The transp sportation companies were never SO
taxed to handle the freight offered by the
people for distribution. The home ana ior-
eign markets contribute TO our prosperity.
Happily the latter has increased without any
dimnution of the former. Your locomotives
go to Russia the watch cases from my little
city of Canton 10 Geneva, the bridges OF Fhll-
adelphia span the Nile and the products OF
upon every sea and find welcome in most OF
the ports of the world.
In what respect would we change these
happy conditions. with the promises they give
of the future? The business activity in every
part of the country. the better rewards to Ia
Dor. the wider markets for the yield of the
soil and the shop. the increase of our ship
building, not only for Government put tor
purposes of commerce; the enormous increase
of our export trade in manufactures and agri-
culture the great comforts of the home ana
the happiness of the people, the wonderful up
lifting of the business conditions of Virginia
and the South and of the whole country, make
this not only an era Of goodwill, but an era OF
good times.
II is q great pleasure TO me to stand in this
historic capital and to look into the faces
of my countTymen here assembled and to feel
and TO know that we are all Americans stand
ing as one for the Government love and
mean to uphold united for the honor of the
American nation and for the faithful fulfill
ment OF every obligation which national duty
requires. / cannot forget-I could not forget
in this presence-my acknowledgement to the
of Virginia for their hearty and patriotic
support of the flag in the war with Spain and
for their continued and unflinching loyalty in
the suppression of the insurrection in Luzon
against the authority of the United States:
They came in swift response to the call of
the country-the best blood OF the State, the
sons of noble sires-asking for service at the
battle front, where the, fighting was the
hardest and the danger the greatest. The rolls
of the Virginia volunteers conta ain the names
Of 9g 5TaTsf ef ana then the de-
Of its earliest and latest times They have
shed their blood for the flag of their faith and
are now defending It with their lives in the
American army and navy All honor has
been shown the men returning from the field
have gone to take their places.
My Fellow Citizens: Two great historical
events, separated by period of eghty-four
years affecting the life of the republic and
soil of Virginia. Both were participated in by
Vrginians and both marked mighty epochs in
the history OF the nation. The one was at York
town in 17S1. when CORVALLIS surrendered 10
Washington, which the beginning of the
end Of the war with Great Britain and the
dawning of Independence and union. The great
Nirsinan, sage and patriot, llustrious com
mander and wise statesman installed the re-
public in the family of nations II has with
stood every shock in peace from without
or within, experiencing its gravest CRISIS in
the Civil War The other. al Appomatox. was
the conclusion OF that crisis and the beginning
of uni1catiOn now happily fun and complete
resting in the good Will and fraterna affection
of one toward another of all the people. Wash
ington's terms OF peace with CORVALLIS Sc
cured the ultimate union OF the Colonies; those
OF Grant with Lee the perpetual union of the
States. Both events were mighty gains for