The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-16
OUR SACRED OBLIGATION,
1.-THE Future Of Island Possessions
is Peoples Question.
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Recent Events Have imposed Great
Responsibilities: in the
- United States,

New York, March 5-President Nc
Kinley was the guest of honor at the
fourteenth annual banquet of the Ohio
Society Of New York, held Saturday
night in the grand ballroom of the Wal
dorf-Astoria. The Ohioans assembled
400 strong, with an additional hundred
Of distinguished guests at thirty-one
round tables, superbly decked with flow
ers.
Senator Mark Hanna occupied a seat
of honor, two removed from the Pres-
dent, with Cornelius N. Bliss as his
neighbor. Others at the speakers table
were Senator S. B. Elkins, Gov. Roose
welt, Lieut. Gov. Woodruff. Coy. George
X. Nash of Ohio, John K. Richards, so.
licitor-general; former Gov. Levi Z. Nor
ton of New York, Col. James H. Hoyt of
Ohio, Gen. H. c.. Corbin, Addison
Swayne, Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard of
the New England society, Rev. Edwin
III. Kraus of the Canadian society, James
J. O'Gorman Of the Friendly Sons of st.
Patrick, Charles Diet, II. Clay Evans,
John Barrett, Tunis G. Bergen of the
Holland society, Julien I. Davies Of St.
David's society and Henry r. Towns of
the Pennsylvania society.
President NJ. Z. Southland of the Ohio
society, acting as POSTMASTER, held the
center of the honor table, President Nc
Kinley on the right and GOV. Nash on
the left For an hour before the ban
quet President Mckinley had welcomed
| all Corners in the Astor gallery adjoining
the ballroom.
The speakers were the President, Gov.
Nash of Ohio, who spoke on The Coy
who replied for the Empire State;' So
licitor- General John X. Richards, Col.
James H. Hoyt.
1t was 10 o'clock before Toastmaster
Southland rose to deliver the address of
welcome. He spoke briefly.
President Mckinley arose to reply amid
storm of plaudits, napkins We're waved
and cheers were given with will.
President Mckinley then spoke as fol-
lows:
Speech of President Mckinley.
I appreciate your welcome and thank you
for this renewed expression of good will.
1t is proper that should say that the man.
| aging board of the Ohio society has kept the
promises made to me that I would not be
expected or required to speak at this ban
quet. 1 shall not be guilty of rejecting on
| their good faith or breaking my own resolu.
ton not to speak If I indulge in some obser-
manner the pleasure which have in greet
ing my old friends of the Ohio colony in
| New York. There is bond of close fellow.
| ship which unites Ohio people. Wherever
they journey or wherever they dwell they
cherish tenderest sentiment for their moth
| er state, and she in turn never fails of af
| fectionate interest in her widely scattered
| children.
The statement which has been so offer
| made is not far from the truth, ''Once al
Ohioan, always an Ohioan." 1t has beer
some years since l was your guest. Mucl
has happened in the meantime. We. hay!
had our blessings and our burdens and still
! assurance of the continuance of the golf
standard, with which we measure our ex
changes, and we have the open door in tn
far East, through which to market our prod
ucts. We are neither in alliance nor an
tagonfsm nor ENHANCEMENT with any for
eign power but on terms of amity and cor
diality with all. We buy from all of then
and sell to all Of them, and our sales. ex
ceeded our purchases In the last two year
by over one billion dollars.