Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-23
PRESIDENT SEES
THE OHIO LAUNCHED
GREAT CROWDS WITNESS THE
CEREMONIES.
PRESIDENT Presented With "a Gold Plate
Suitably Engraved, by the shipyard
Em ployes-Rousing Recep-
tion by Returning
Volunteers.

Tue oattleship Ohio was successfully
launched at San Francisco Saturday.
President Mckinley attended and de-
llvered an address to the 4.5OO en-
ployes of the ship yards, which was
received with evidences of approval
oy all present. He was happy in his
remarks, complimenting the California
volunteers for services rendered, and
thanking the ship yard employees for
having builded such magnificent boats
as the Olympia and the Oregon. In
closing his address, the president said:
What we want is to build more ships.
We ought to have good commercial
line from here to the Philippines, made
in the Union iron works, built by
American workingmen and manned by
American sailors and carrying the
American flag There is nothing in
this wsrld that brings people so close
together as commerce. There is moth
ing in this world that so much pro-
notes the universal brotherhood of
-1~H eS SoifhiSitVs anu VIC WdDt W Gu
courage commerce. The pations are
close together now. The powers of the
earth are tied together We have over
come distance. We not only want "a
commercial line, but we want a cable
from here to the Philippines. We want
it to be an American cable, that cam not
be cut by any power in the world.
They say trade follows the flag. The
telegraph must follow trade.
My fellow citizens, we have great
problems before us. We never had
more importan, ones. We have ex-
panded Do you want to contract?
Cries of "No'') 1t is not question of
whether we will acquire the Philippines
or Porto Rico, or Guam or Wake island
Or Hawaii or Tutulia. We have ac-
quired them; they are ours. The ques-
tion is, shall we give them up? Gen
eral cry of "No!') And from one end
of this country to the other comes that
answer. They are ours, not to subju-
gate, but to emancipate, not to rule in
the power of might, but to take to
those distant people the principles Of
liberty, of freedom, of conscience and
of opportunity that are enjoyed by the
people of the United States.
Our flag never goes anywhere except
1t carries blessings Our flag never op-
pressed nybody, but it has given
freedom to every people over whom it
has floated.
Having said this much, only want
to thank you all for this most cordial
welcome. | am glad again to meet the
workinglnen of my country. All my
public life has been devoted in effort to
giving the workingmen the best oppor
tunity; the best chance for good wages
and steady employment.
The president was accorded great
ovation. The route he traversed to
the landing where he took boat for
the iron works was lined with human
ity, and the magnifcence of the naval
display was only exceeded by the well
come given Admiral Dewey on his re-
turn. Every craft in the harbor was
decked out in gayest attire, and the
city in the background was perfect
mound of waving flags. Every wharf
on the sea front swarmed with people.
OFF near Goat island lay the trans
| port Sheridan, travel-stained from her
long journey across the Pacific. She
| had just arrived from the Philippines
and still had aboard the Forty second
and Forty. sixth United States volun-
teer infantry, which she had brought
home. The president saw her at once
and requested that the course of the
Slocum should be changed to allow him
to pass near her.
As the Slocum approached the big
transport there was scene of almost
frenzied enthusiasm aboard. The sol
diers, all in their service uniforms,
rushed to the side and rent the air with
cheer upon cheer at the sight OF the
president of the United States come to
welcome them home. The band on the