The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-17

only Tolerated, out invited, ana so long
| as any expression of opinion falls sho t
] of sedition, 1t Is to be respected. (Ap-
plause)
HE INDORSES MKINLEY.
1 am grieved, I feel free to say, that
the unimpeachabie integrity, the univer-
sal learning, the venerable years, the
unsullied patriotism derived from ances7
| trail sources of Senator Hoar should be
brought into that debate by American
people. Let us remember my friends
| and neighbors, my fellow citizens that
United States, sitting as we are are here,
| different shades of opinion of all degrees.
| We are all interested in this great nation,
! and let us approach the considerat ton of
! these questions in a calm and dlspas-
| Sionate manner. Now / am not pro-
| ceeding to discuss way in which a man
| talks to his neighhors, and let me call
attention to one thing, and I beg you to
| believe that nothing that I say tonight
| is in the least degree partisan. / COM
mend the policy of President Mckinley
| as efficient in carrying out the will of the
| people. 1t must be apparent to you. You
! cannot help recognizing as fact that
| within the past year succeeding period
| of unequaled depression in all our in
| ternal affairs that American interests
American industry, American production
| has sprung as If from an enchanted
| spring, from a depth of depression to the
very heights and utmost attitudes of
prosperiay and promise (Applause)
| Consider where we were two years ago
Debating violently among ourselves upon
| financial and economical conditions with
a universal-what shall I call it-prostra-
| ton of industries throughout the nation,
| with neighbor set against neighbor upon
| an abstract question of finance.
| The problem, aggravated and excited
by most aggravated and depressed in
| ternal conditions, all at once by the evolu-
| tlon OF natural causes, and by the re-
| Operative energy of the American peo-
| pie, and most as if we were making
| journey through the night, and waking
| up and finding ourselves in the heights Of
prosperity. The United States finds it
| self in the middle of prosperity. In the
| last year we recorded an amount not
| only unprecedented in our history, but
unprecedented in the history of any other
/ nation of the world. And the consequence
was that we called into play that enor-
| nous balance, not only the gold of the
world that until today we are not only
| the largest gold holder of the world but
are the creditor nation of many coun-
| tries. Two years ago our foreign relations
were of the most irritating character
| Germany, and Great Britain were irritat-
| ing. By transformation almost proyt-
| dental In its character, the Anglo-Saxon
and English-speaking element of the
world We're brought to see an identity of
interests which will be dominant in time
to come. With the great German nation.
| the representative of free thought and
| free expression, from the irritation that
had preceded, we have sailed upon the
! calm sea of pacific relations, and as to
France and Russia, it seems that no
points of irritation remain. and that the
| United States, the great, the powerful.
| occupies the same peaceful relations with
| all the nations of the earth that she
ever did. And all this has been brought
| about and come to pass during a state
of war. Warwhich disturbs businss, which
| disturbs confidence which invites foreign
| complications, which distracts relations
| which uproots and overthrows conditions
all this has been brought to pass within
! one year and little more, a spectacle, a
result unparalleled in the history of ma
| tions
! Now, my friends and neighbors, I pro-
pose to speak to you with the utmost
| 1rankness. L recognize many old friends
! who don't agree with me, who partially
| agree with me, and who fully agree with
me- don't propose to advance any par
| ty views. L want to speak my mind and
say what seems to me to be existing con-
| dftions, and what the probabilities of the
future are, as near as my fallible judg-
ment will enable me- Now will any man
in this Joyous company dispute that the
/ war with Spain was necessary war;
| (Cries of No, No)
|
struction of the Maine, which sent to
/ the bottom of the putrid bay of Havana
256 sailors of the United States,S who had
dedicated their lives to the protection of
| the country, of the flag, unquestionably
! brought about by Spanish action or
| Spanish negligence, and aggravated by
! the charge of the Spanish court of In
quiry, that 1t was due to the want of
| efficiency of the American navy, when
| that stupendous crime was brought to
! the attention of the American people by
! that insult of Spain, will any person deny
that considering all that had been past,
! that that war was an unjust and unnec-
essary war? The limitations of this oc-
casion will not justify me in doing more
than stating that the events of that
war were sudden, complete and spectac-
ular. (Applause) AS in a melodrama,
where the unities of time and space are
! Cancelled in moment, the flet of Spain
was was, blotted o1f from n, the ocean at Manila
effaced from the sea at Santiago (ap-
Never in all the history of war when
the wave of Asiatic invasion by Europe
| was stayed by the valor of Greece was
| a naval victory so decisive of the course
of great events And what was the re-
Spain? 1t brought the North and South
! together into one strong union It weld
| ed into one firm, homogeneous mass the
North and South. 1t effaeed forever.
between the North and the South, which
| had persisted for more than sixty years
until the grandson of Grant fought upon
! the staff of Jos. Wheeler and Cen Fltz-
! hugh Lee, commanded under the stars
| and stripes of the republic, and in all this
| broad land today whatever might have
| been the destruction, whatever might
/ have been the destruction, whatever
| might have been the rending of national
ties, there may have been upon economic
! conditions, or party questions, I tell you
| my fellow citizens, that the United States
! of America. east, north south and west
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, stands a
giant clothed In steel before the world
/ from either shore. And that this has
been brought to pass has been worth all
| that this war has cost and more too.
| of the United States, instead of being in
| q certain sense two unities, have been
welded into one colossal form. Cap
| o]ause.)
We had not before been an element in
| the great transformations of trade inter
! course and commerce, to which the great
! er portion of the earth was subjected.
Who thought of the United States four
teen months ago, when all the powers
! OF the earth We're partitioning the great
| er portion of Africa? When France was
apportioning Madagascar, who thought
| of the United States at those times She
immured in her own seclusion. Irritation
| within because there was no prospect of
action or activity from without For
eign thought contemplated us Iangl1idly
| and spoke affectedly with a superiority
| and strength of Intervention in our con-
! Germ. Who now, after Dewey planted the
| United States flag In the Philippines,
| and Sampson and Schley raised the ban
| ners of this country in Santiago, who
now contemplates intervening in the af-
fairs of the United States? Who now, in
the face of that tacit, underlined under
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