The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-16

States the sovereignty and territory Of
the Philippine islands,"
At this point the school children
waved their flags and the president
said: 'The little ones have been study
ing their geography and that territory
my fellow citizens the president has no
power to ALLEVIATE if he was disposed to,
which he is not. The sovereignty of the
United States in the Philippines cannot
be given away by a president That
sovereignty belongs to a people and so
long as it is our territory and so long
as our sovereignty is there by right, not
by right of conquest only but by right
of solemn treaty the president Of the
United States has but one duty to per-
form and that is to maintain and estab-
lish the authority of the United States
in those islands.
HE could not do less and perform his
duty and our prayers are not only go
ing out to the boys in the trenches but
more men and more means and more
sinews of war will follow the boys at
the 'front.'
AT MANCHESTER.
Manchester, Ia, Oct 16.-The follow
ing address was made here by the
president to an enthusiastic crowd:
My Fellow Citizens: We have had
more than a hundred years of national
existence. Those years have been
blessed ones for liberty and civiliza-
ton. No other peoples anywhere on
the globe have enjoyed such prosperity
and have made such gigantic progress
as the people OF the United States,
When the fathers established this gov
ernment the population was only lit
tie more than million in excess of the
population Of Iowa today. They started
with 100000 and you have 1850, 900
people in your state.
our lines indeed have fallen in
pleasant places
THE ship of state has sailed on uni
terruptedly on it's mission of liberty;
and one thing that can be said of this
nation for which we should all give
thanks, and praise, it never raised it's
arm against humanity, never struck a
blow against liberty, never struck a
blow except for civilization and man
kind. And now that we are seventy
six millions of people, 1 do not think we
have lost our VlSor, our courage, our
high purpose, or patriotism. We are
just as strong for our country as we
ever were and we are just as sensible
OF national honor as our fathers We're
and just as determined to keep un
sullied the American name as those
who created US a nation.
This my cOuptrymen is not
partisan government. While parties
control administration in the presence
of a great national peril, or a great ma
tional duty the people are united as
one man, all for country and the peo-
pies hearts today go out to the soldiers
of the United States who are doing
battle for the country in the Philip
pines. Your hearts are with them,
your prayers are with them; and if I
am not mistaken the American people
do not propose, whatever may be the
cost to see our flag dishonored any
where"
AT CEDAR FALLS.
Cedar Falls, Ia, Oct. 16.-The president
said:
My Fellow Citizens: We are a united
people; We are united in interest and
country, as We have never si''- been before
SectiOnansm has disappeared, old preju-
tor of hate like the orator of despair.
has no hearing in any part of our be-
united than we have ever been before.
9orth nave been hght1ng for the same
mas, nag ana dying for the same hag and
shedding their blood together for the
Wheeler in the Philippines are fighting
side by side today. On ship and on shore,
north have been fighting together. This
IS Is 5ne union we nave now ana the noTSh
ana Ihe souIh are Vlelng with each other
in loyalty to country and are marching
tiny and n the mission OF liberty and hu-
manity. My fellow citizens. the cause of
suffer wherever we have raised our flag.
grandizement, not for national gain, but
we have raised it for cfvilizat ton and hu-
AT PARKERSBURG.
President Mckinley spoke as follows at
My Fellow Citizens: 1t gives me great
pleasure to meet you and TO receive your
through the district of my old friend
honor that comes to this district that
your representative is to be the speaker
of the national house of representatives..
'The patriotism of the people for the
last eighteen months has been sublime.
When the call for troops was made. Iowa.
like all other states of the union respond
ed promptly to that call. More than 3
million soldiers were ready to do battle
for the country under its call for only
100000 troops. Iowa furnished her full
share and one of her regiments did gal
liant service in the distant islands of the
Pacific It did not ask to come home,
although it had the privilege of muster
out after the ratification of the treaty of
peace had been exchanged; that regiment
remained there to uphold the flag and
sustain the authority of the government
until a new army could be created to go
and take its place and I desire to make
public acknowledgment here in this pres
ence and in this state for their sDlen-
did exhibition of devotion and to the flag
and loyalty to the country. We love that
flag. All of US love it. 1t gladdens the
heart of the old and it cheers the heart
of the young. it shelters US all where
ever it is raised, on land or sea, at home,
or in our distant possessions, that flag
always stands for liberty, for civilization.
for humanity and whenever it is assault
81 whole nation rises I'm fO defend