The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-06
ADDRESS BY MCKINLEY.
Saws w Will Not Permit Despotism
in" the Philippines.

cIety 81 New 1oEh At4H
annual dinner at the Waltorf-Astoria
.orirht. William Mckinley. President
Of th.. United States, was the guest Oh
honor. More than four hundred covers
were laid.
Among those AT the President table
were NJ. / Southland, President Of the
Ohio Society ef New York: Governor
Theodore Roosevelt. Governor George
X. Nash. Ex-Governor Levi L. Morton
Cornelius \. Bliss. Senator Marx tfaI-
IA, lieutenant Governor Timothy L.
Woodruff. Judge Addison Brown. Grn-
cral Wagner 3. Swayne. General II. {.
Corbi1s II. Clay Evans. General 1homas
II. Hubbard. Charles Dick. JOHN Bar
r.tt. Tunis G.. Bergin ami Juiinn T.
Davies.
Wei will soon have legislative aSsur-
ance of the continuance of the gold
standard with which We measure our ex-
clanges. and we have the open door in
the Far East through which 10 market
our products. We are neither IN ALI
auce nor ~antagoniSln nor entanslenlenr
with any foreign power. hut on terms
Of amity and cordially with all. We
buy from all of them and sell to all 81
them and our sales exceeded oar uur-
chaSes IN the past two years by over one
billion dollars. Markets have been IN
creased and mortgages have been reduc-
ed. Interest has fallen and wages has
advanced. The public debt is decreasing,
The country is we'll to Do. Its people
for the most part are happy and content
Ell. They have good times and are Gu.
good terms with the nations of the world.
After SO Years of unbroken peace
came an unavoidable war. Happily the
conclusion was quickly reached. without
Il suspicion of unworthy motive of pra"-
tlce or purpose on our part ana Wllii
fadeleSS honor to our arms. | cannon Tor
get the quick response of the people 70
the country need and the quarter Of a
million men who freely offered their hveS
to their country's service. 1t demon-
Strated our mighty reserve power anu
taught US that large standing armies are
unnecessary when eyely citizen Is a MN
ute man. ready to join the ranks for ma
tional defense.
Out of these recent events have cc1ue
to the United States grave trials and
responsibilities. As 1t was the nation :
so are the results the nations prob
lem. Its solution rests upon us. 1t Is
too serious to stit1e. 1t is too earnest for
repOSe. No phrase or catchWOrd can call
Gel the sacred obligation It Involves. No
use OF eI,ithets, no dispersion Of motives
by those who differ, will contribute to
that sober Judgment SO essential to right
conclusions. No political Outcry can abro-
gate our treaty OF peace with Spaln or
absolve us from its solemn engagements.
It is the peoples question and will be
until its determination is written out iii
their enlightened verdict. We must
choose between manly doing and base
desertion. 1t VIII never be the latter.
1t must be soberly settled in justice and
good conscience and it will be. Righteous
ness, which eXaleth a nation. nflst control
in its solution. No great emergency has
arisen in this nations history and prog
resS which has not been met by the
sovereign people with high capacity, with
ample strength and untiinching fidelity
to every honorable obligation. Partisan
ship can hold few of tbs against solemn
public duty.
The national sentiment and the IA
tional conscience was never tTOnger OF
higher than now. There has been a re-
union of the people around the holy
altar cOnSecra1ed to country newly saIct-
flied by common SacrlnceS.
'Ihere can be no imperialism. ThoS
who fear are against it. Those wac
nave faith in the republic are against it.
so that there as universal abhorre:ite
for it and unanimous opposition to it.
Our only difference is that those who
do not agree with us have no confidence
in the virtue or capacity or high purpose
OF good faith OF this free people As 4
ciyilizing agency; while we believe that
the century of free government which
the American people have enjoyed bhs
not rendered them faithleSs and trr,.so.
lutte, but has fitted them for the great
task of lifting up and assisting to better
conditions those distant peoples who have
through the issue of battle become our
wards. The harder the task the greater
viii be the result, benefit and the honor.
To doubt our power to accomplish II IS
to lose faith i'll the ~sOundness and
strength of our popular institutions. The
liberators will never become the oppres-
sors. \ self governed people will Il yer
permit despotsm in any government
which they foster and defend.
Gentlemen. We have the new care
and cannot shift it. And. breaking up
the camp of ease and Isolation. iet rs
brayely and hopefully and sdberly con
tinue the march of faithful service aud
falter not until the work is done"