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rushed on and under the stern decree
OF war, Dewey planted the Stars and
Stripes in the Philippines; and SO the
republic circled half the globe
"A retrospect of the nations journey
makes every. fibre of a patriotic heart
ring with pride. Never before was so
much done in so little time: indeed,
never was so much done in any time.
Achievements unparalleled mark every
mile OF the vast expansion. Our gov
eminent is the strongest and freest of
the world: our material development is
unequaled, our wealth unsurpassed.
our men more capable, more just, more
aggressive and energetic. than the men
OF any other country. and our women
more intelligent, more progressive,
truer and fairer than the women of any
other land upon which the sun shines.
Our civilization has more Justice and
more good for humanity in it than any
other civilization.
so here we are with the best ideas
OF how society should be governed,
with the purest sympathy for the weak
and the helpless, with the noblest in
stincts for right and the deepest hatred
for wrong, with the greatest capacity
to furnish what man wants and the
most commanding power to enforce our
views How shall we expend all these
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strength? | know not how: but I do
know that wherever there is work to
be done that calls for conscience, for
brains or for Drawn. there the Ameri-
can will be to bear hand in it. But
the star fingered not over the Philip
pines, and we see it now shining stead
4 lily into the very heart of China. And
here its identity is challenged, and we
must shortly answer the question, Is it
the star that America has followed to-
ward the west, or the star that has
beckoned Europe towards the east?
For the first time, we have met some-
thing more than the obduracy of
nature. The two forces of Europe aud
America are face to face in China, and
we must measure strength. not with
one, but with all the civilized nations
q OF the earth. | am far from advocating
the dismemberment by force of this
most venerable nation of history. am
not permitted to even predict the OUT
j come OF the next quarter of century.
L do feel. however, that the slumbering
millions OF China are about to awake.
! believe that they will leap forward
to new place in the worlds economy,
and | do know that the benign in
tiuence OF the worlds greatest republic
should be felt in the quickening pulse
OF the better life that is just beginning
and that our people must have their
full share of the commerce which will
flow in mighty streams upon the Chi
nese shores. And so our star of empire
will shine with new lustre among the
consultations of the East.
las citizen of the United States. /
experienced an intense qualification in
the knowledge that the natal DAYS of
the new era for China our country was
represented by man not only skilled
in the art of diplomacy, but whose
mind grasped the portentious events
and who without hesitation established
America in her true place in the great
drama OF development. AS citizen of
Iowa it fills me with pls assure to well
come him home and to see him sur
rounded by friends who not only honor
him for the distinguished service he
has rendered to the world as welll as
to the government, but who remember
with the deepest appreciation and sym
pathy the perils that he and those who
are dear to him have suffered
G. Nj. Harl spoke of the work done
by the women of the Conger party, and
Judge Given on what the return of the
Congers meant to Iowa
; Minister Conger in short speech
expressed his appreciation of all the
state had done for him. Gov. Shaw
acted as toastmaster.
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