The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-10
! oDGE EUL0GiZES M'KlRLEY.

.,a.sachusetts statesman rays High
r-ihute to the Dead President
md His Policy of Commercial
progression.
BOSTON. Nov. 9.-An exceptionally
: ,oreA number of the Middlesex Club
o+tanded the dinner of the club at
voung's hotel this afternoon. Hon.
rdoar r. Champlin presided, and the
rathering included many of the Mas
sachusetts delegation in Congress, and
state and national officers
senator Lodge and Michael ]. MUIR
raw of Boston were the only speakers,
the latter discussing the results of the
recent elections.
senator Lodges address was listen
cd TO with the closest attention. He
hogan with a warm tribute to the late
President Mckinley, and in the course
of his remarks. strongly urged reel
rrocity with other countries along the
lines mentioned in President McKin-
ley's Buffalo speech, and the upbuild-
ing of the navy, also touching upon
ether national issues.
senator Lodge began his address with
2 brief allusion to the recent elections
and then delivered an eloquent eulogy
on the late President Mckinley of
whom he said:
Rising to international reputation
as the peculiar champion of a single
economic policy, he became as Presi-
dent the guide in new paths and the
leader in policies more various and
reaching than have ever confront
ed the country except in the days of
Washington and Lincoln. The Spanish
war was not of his making, but he
conducted it. The bold grasp of the
Philippines was his. the current of
events brought with it was his. His,
too was the mastery policy
in China, the full purport
of which he = is not generally
comprehended even yet. He rose to the
hight of circumstances, he met the new
forces of the time unshrinking, and
guided them to great ends. He dealt
greatly with the great events among
which he lived and if this does not con-
stitute craftsmanship of the highest
order then the word has no meaning.
The great republic which he loved
and to which he gave his life still
marches on, even as he would have 1t,
and we turn from the dead to the liv
ing. A deep gratitude is ours that his
successor was not only his associate,
but his friend, and that the policies and
the purposes of President Mckinley
are the policies and the purposes oe
President Roosevelt. They thought
alike as to all great public questions,
and alike they are representatives of
the principles of the Republican party
and of the truest and best American
ideals and beliefs.H
Senator Lodge made a lengthy argu-
ment for general reciprocity in our
commercial relations.
ITO this subject" he said, 'it is GER
tain that most anxious consideration
will be given by President Roosevelt
and by Congress at the ensuing ses-
sion. Whether it will be deemed best
to put this policy into execution by
means of some general legislation,
equivalent to a reciprocal arrangement
with all the nations CT the earth by a.
series of separate treaties, 1t is as yet
too early too say"
He said that he considered reciproci-
ty with Cuba as first and most i'm
portant for political as we'll as econon-
ical reasons. He then briefly discussed
the reciprocity treaties now pending in
the Senate and concluded this portion
of his remarks by saying:
Last, we come to the treaty with
France, which is more important eco
nomically than all the other treaties
treaty made with France. 1t is coun-
try with which / would fain strengthen
our good relations. I regard such
treaty as politically and economically
desirable in a very high degree"
In conclusion he advocated legisla-
ton which would put the American
merchant marine on an equality with
that of other countries and the build
ing of a navy. He said:
hirlx
the building of an isthmian canal. L
believe from what little I know, that
we shall have a treaty with England
at the coming session, which will re-
move honorably for both nations,
whatever obstacles now existing to the
building of the canal in the Clayton
Bulwer treaty. If such treaty is
submitted to us by the President, there
is no more pressing duty than its i'm
mediate ratitication, to be followed at
once by the passage of the canal bill.
There is one other condition that is
essential to the commercial and in
dustrial development of the United
States. which in the last five years has
entered into a new epoch, and that is
the maintenance of peace. There is
no nation in the world to which peace
is so important as it is to
the United States in order to secure
ample scope for the great progress we
are making. We are in good relations
low with all the world, and it will be,
I am sure, the effort of President
Roosevelt, as it was of President NC
Knley, to maintain these good rela-
lions. There is only one point of dan
ger, and to assure peace we must pro-
tect ourselves in that direction. Firmly
but quietly the Monroe doctrine must
be rigidly upheld. The entrance of any
great Ellropean Power into the Amer
lean hemisphere, either by the acqui-
sition of territory or the establishment
of forts and naval stations, would be
the instant menace of the peace we are
SO anxious to maintain.
THE best insurance and the best
guarantee of peace are in the possess
sion of a navy so strong that no ma
ton of the world would be tempted to
attack US. Complete preparation is'the
surest protection against war and war
is what we wish to avoid, not only
morally but economically, in every