Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-07

Gov. Tyler, of Virginia, and an i'm
| mense outpouring of people. The DEM
onstration was marred in some of it's
features by heavy rainstorm. The
civic carnival parade had to be aban-
doned until to-day, owing to the wealth
er, and the decorations of the buildings
presented a bedraggled and woe
begone appearance. But the people,
residents as well as visitors from othe,
Virginia cities and points outside the
state, who came to witness the launch
ing and see the president, were enthu-
siastic.
Arrival of the President.
The presidential train arrived on
time, and as it rolled through the sub
urbs of the city the howitzer battery
fired presidential salute. AT Elba
station, in the west end, where the
president debarked and took carriage
at the Jefferson hotel, he was formal
ly welcomed by Mayor Taylor. The
president responded briefly.
Immediately after this ceremony the
president and party were driven to the
Jefferson hotel and held an informal
and somewhat enforced reception in the
Franklin street lobby of the building
1t is estimated that thousand persons
shook hands with him before he would
permit the police to clear the way for
him to go to his private apartments.
Delivers an Address.
A little later luncheon was served in
tho d;p;r r.roo,,,e Of tho bo+a1 Soma am
persons sitting down, and then the
presidential party was driven to the
shipyard, the president being warmly
cheered all along the route. At the yard
an immense crowd had assembled. The
president, having been introduced from
the stand by Mayor Taylor, spoke in
part as follows:
II heartily rejoice with the people of
this great city upon it's Industrial revival
and upon the notable prosperity it is feel
ing in all of its business enterprises. You
are taking advantage of the commercial
opportunities of the hour. You are ad-
vancing in manufact ures, extending your
markets and receiving a deserved share
of the worlds trade. What can be more
gratifying to us than the present condi-
tons of the country. A universal love of
country and noble national spirit animate
all the people. We are on the best Of terms
with each other, and on most cordial reIa-
lions with every power of earth. We have
ample revenues with which to conduct the
government. No deficit menaces our cred
it. Money is abundant in volume and up-
questioned in value.
Confidence Should Not BE Shaken.
Confidence in the present and faith in
the future are firm and strong, and should
not be shaken unsettled The paOn1a
are doing business on both principles, and
should be let alone-encouraged rather
than hindered in their efforts to increase
the trade Of the country and find new
and profitable markets for their products
Manufacturing was never so active and SO
universally enjoyed throughout all the
states. Work was never SO abundant. The
transportation companies were never so
taxed to handle the freight offered by the
people for distribution. The home and for
eign markets contribute to our prosperity.
Happily the latter has increased without
any diminution of the former. Your loco
motives go to Russia, the watch cases
from my little city of Canton to Geneva;
the bridges of Philadelphia span the Nile
and the products of the American farm
and factory are carried upon every sea
and find welcome in most of the ports OF
the world.
Era of Good Will and Good Times.
I'm 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 re-
wards to labor, the wider markets for the
yield of the soil and the shop, the increa Sc
of our shipbuilding. not only for our gov
eminent, but for purposes Of commerce
the enormous increase of our export trade
in manufactures and agriculture the
greater comforts of the home and the hap
piness of the people, the wonderful uplft-
ing of the business conditions of Virginia
and the south and of the whole country
Mark this is not only an era of good VIII
but an era of good times. It is a great
pleasure to me to stand in this historic cap
ital and to look into the faces of my coun-
trymen here assembled and to feel and
know that we are all Americans, standing
as one for the government we love and
mean to uphold. united for the honor of
the American nation and for the faithful
tional duty requires.
The president then thanked the men of
Virginia for the hearty and patriotic sup
port of the government in the war with
Spain, and for their continued and unfinch-
ing loyalty In the suppression of the insur-
rection in Luzon against the authority of
the United States. He called attention to
two great historical events, separated by
a period of "a years. which affected the
life of the republic. Both. he said, were
participated in by Virg!nians. He contin-
ued: some was at Yorktown. in 1881, when
cernWallis surrendered to Washington,
which was the beginning of the end Of the
war with Great Britain and the dawning
of independence and union, The other, al
Appomattox, was the conclusion of that
crisis, and the beginning of unifcation
now happily full and complete, resting in
the good will and fraternal affection of one
toward another of all the people. Wash
ington's terms of peace with CORVALLIS
secured the ultimate union of the colonies
those of Grant with Lee the perpetual union
Of the states. Both events were mighty
gains for the human family and proud
record for q nation of freemen. Those
were triumphs Up which we all have a
share, both are common heritage, The
one made the nation possible, the other
made the nation imperishable. Now no
Earring note mars the harmony of the
union. The seed of discord has no soWer
and no soil upon which to live. The pur-
yeyor of hate. If there be one left, is with
out a follower. The voice which would
kihdle the fame of passion and prejudice
is rarely heard and no longer needed in
any part Of our beloved country.
- Lord of the universe,
Shield us and guide us,
Trusting Thee always,
Through shadoW and sun.
Thou hast united US:
Who shall divide us?
Keep us. Oh, keep US,
The many in one'
my countrymen. the sacred principles
proclaimed In Philadelphia in 1776, adj
yanced to glorious triumph at Yorktown,
made effective In the formation Of the
federal union in 1887. sustained by the
heroism Of all our people in every foreign
conflict sealed In solemn covenant at APP
pomattox Court House, sanetifed by the
blood of the men of the south and of the