The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-07

which are now over MS, make it
still better country. tGreat applause
and cries of $50 we will.'o
Secretary Hay WAS next introduced
and spoke for a few moments fehcltatlng
hrs hearers ON the fact that the question
that once divided the country has been
settled forever amid that 'Fthis is a coun-
try worthy the devotion of. every soul IN
II. worthy to live for, fight for and, II
God SO will, to die for" Great applause
Attorney General Griggs then spoke as
follows:
Il was interested TO see that vast
concotrse of school children who turned
out this morning. all with flags in their
hands to welcome the President of the
United States. 1t took me back an nlern-
DRY to the days when | was an American
school boy and | remember that am those
day when opened my geography L could
find all the territory of the United States
upon one continent and upon ONE page.
but now when our children open Their
books and are told to point
out the possessions over which
the American flag floats in sover-
eighty, it takes two continents
to disclose that territory. 0Cheers.) The
Secretary of the Interior is making
new map of the United States of Ameri-
ca and he is embarrassed to find room
to place not only the States, but the
vast new island possessions that have
become ours And that is their present
conditions? What do these school child
rem learn about these islands that have
come to us? They viii be told by their
teachers that WITHIN "a year there has
!. .I.NI n A,i,n or
pelago in the Pacific Ocean, peopled with
eight or ten millions of souls who speak
more than a score of different languages,
who compose more than two score dit
ferent discordant amid disconnected tribes.
They will DE told that fer more than
300 years these islands. lich in natural
possessions fertile in soil, have been gov
erned by Spanish authority and that
down to the end of this nineteenth CEN
fury of civilization and progress they
have attained not much more lntelii-
gemce. not march more civilization, not
much more wealth, and no more liberty
than they had attained in those days
when the great Spanish galleons carried
home annually from these islands their
wealth of gold and silver to enrich the
treasury of King Philip. They will be
told today the United States of AM
erica possesses by solemn treaty, signed
and ratified by Spain, accepted and ap
proved by the Senate and the Congress
of the United States and its Presi-
dent, the only lawful sovereignty
and authority over these islands, a sover-
eighty and am authority recognized and
untlispllted by amy single nation or peo-
ple ON the face of the earth. They will
be told that in ONE OF these islands one
OF these numerous tribes has raised al
army of insurrection against the Aineri-
can flag, that they, while olr soldiers
were i'll peaceful possessiGn of Maniki.
attempted to rise and murder them and
the American representatives there, that
they fired on the Anericam flag. thai
they defied its authority and that they
have attempted by murder, by confiagra-
tion and by arms to drive the lawful au- 4
thority of rhe United States from the
Island on Ialzon. They will be told,
these children of yours. that those men
who have attempted this comprise not
one tenth per cent of the people of these
islands, and that the answer. that is 70
be made to those who ask what we are
to do about it, is the plain and simple
answer that was given in 1S1-If any
man attempts to haul down the Aanefl-
can flag. shoot him on the spot.
fCheers) And so. my friends. your
President. yoGm Secretary of war, your
Secretary of the Navy. and all of the peo-
pie of the United States are striving to
maintain merel the lawful authority CT
the United states i'm these islands. To
do their plain and simple duty, to ae-
that which under their solemn
oath they have promised to do, for wllai:
maintain not only the full dignity and
of the American flag, hut to
carry it on according to a policy that yor
believe and believe is a wise purpose OF
providence, which. after 300 years OF
despotism and ignorance, has opened the
door of these islands to American intelli-
geirce to American civilization, to AM
erican progress, to American prosperity
The tflIll tide of prosperity flows through
this land majesticaHy and nnruffiel as
this great river flows by your city. We
want flow of progress and intelligence.
OF liberty and civilization, TO flow into
these philippine Islands and over them
and over ALL to float now and forever,
the flag of the American union Great
cheers.)
Postmaster General Smith was neSi
introduced He spoke Gun the prosperity
which the country is at present enjoying
and praised President Mckinley.
A MONUMENT UNVEILED.
Peoria, Ill., Oct. GA good part of the
population of Peoria, the second city in
Illinois, today took part in an elaborate
demonstration of welcome to their cry
of the President of the United States.
The great event of the day was the mn
yelling OF beautiful monument erected
by Peoria's citizens as a memorial to the
soldiers of the Rebellion living and dead.
resident Mckinley dedicated the
monument in short address.
The party was then driven to tho
Corn Palace" a building wholly c0a-
structed of corn, where the Peoria corn
festival was inaugurated by the Presi
DENT
The party boarded the train at $40
and was rapidly carried to Galesburg to
spend the might.