The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-11
Enthusiastic People Even Lined the
Presidents Carriage and Paved
the Streets with Posies.
SPEECH AT SANTA BARBARA
WHERE MIR. MKINLEY WAS GREET
ED By A COSMOPOLITAN CROWD.
Fire Chief So Anxious to See the
President He emitted His
House to Burn.

route of the Presidents train northward
from Los Angeles to-day was through the
Santa Clara valley. where 1t ran for hours
along the edge of cliffs overhanging the
Pacific ocean. At every stopping place to-
day there d flower show rivaling in
beauty the floral parade which the Presi-
dent witnessed yesterday at Los Angeles.
At Ventura and Santa Barbara the Presi-
dent was simply overwhelmed with flowers.
The carriages in which he rode were lined
with them and the streets over which he
passed were paved with them.
There was no abatement to-day Of the
enthusiasm which attended the Presidents
progress since he entered California. As
he approaches his destination at San Fran
cisco the programmes at the different stops
are more enjoyable and less fatiguing. A
drive through the city was in each case
the principal feature at the places where
he stopped to-day. The President was very
much interested in the old Spanish missions
filled with historic relics. which he visited
both at Ventura and at Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo was the last stop of the
day 1t was reached at o'clock this even
ing in time for drive through the town.
After crossing the mountain range the
bay of Monterey, where the party will re-
main tomorrow and Sunday. The pro-
gramme tomorrow will include a visit to
the national encampment during the after
noon. Sunday will be given up TO rest.
SPEECH AT SANTA BARBARA.
At Santa Barbara President Mckinley
made the principal address of the day.
After expressing his gratitude for the re-
ception accorded him and commenting on
the cosmopolitan character of the assem-
bly, the President said:
my Fellow-citizens-Wha a splendid
civilization comes out of the old States
and from the old nationalities that are
represented here to-day-the best civlliza-
tion in the world; civilization based upon
liberty, upon equality, upon seif-govern-
ment; a civilization that leads wherever it
goes, whether here or in the distant seas.
and wherever this civilization goes 1t car
ries the ark of freedom. Our liberty, our
freedom, our sense of justice are not ex-
tinguished in any cline, globe or land, and
here, facing the Pacific, L am reminded
that this ark OF liberty has moved out into
this great ocean.
Referring to the Spanish war, he con-
tinued:
LAS the result of that are in the
Philippines and we don't mean to come
away [great applause and cheerlngJ, and
we mean TO give TO these distant peoples
what we gave to California more than
fifty years ago-the blessings of security
and liberty
An unusual incident occurred during the
Presidents stay at Santa Barbara. The
residence of the chief Of the fire brigade
caught fire. The fire chief, who was on
the street awaiting the coming of the
President, was informed that his house
was in flames.
Let it burn" he replied; Il will wait and
see the President. | can build another
house, but L may never have another cp-
portunity to see the President of the United
States" and he stoically remained while
his house burned TO the ground.
Il saw the President" he said, when in
formed that his house in ruins II
saved the lot, anyway"
AT SAN LUIS OBISPO.
The presidential party stopped one. hour
at San Luis Obispo. 1t was almost dark
when the train arrived. The President and
party were driven TO the Ramona Hotel,
where the President spoke briefly from the
veranda. After he had concluded the crowd
surged up the steps in a vain endeavor to
get near him, and there was almost panic
for a moment. The President made his
way through a window into the parlor, and
thence 10 a rear exit where he got his
carriage 10 the train. Several of the party
had narrow escapes from severe injury in
the crush a the hotel.
Replying 10 the address Of welcome by
the mayor Or, San Luis Obispo, President
Mckinley said. IN part:
The ambition cf every American is for
the well-being of his country, for he knows
If all goes well with his country all is likely
TO go we'll with him. In a country like
ours, resting, rs IL does, on the judgment
OF the people, our government and its ad-
niinistration, our laws and its courts are
very much what the people make them. -
Good citizenship is indispensable 10 good
government. Bad citizenship will always
induce bad government. But so long as the
American home continues 10 be the founda-
ticn OF purity and virtue, so long as The
American school is supported by the Amer
lean people, will have good citizenship
and in turn good government. We are
PROUD of our army and OF our navy. and yet
that is not our chief pride. Our chief pride
is not in the arts OF war, but in the peace
full pursuits of civil life 10 reach its highest
development.
our victories must be in the arts in the
sciences and in manufacture, agriculture
and learning If We would really make "A
great and progressive and enduring
ton Our Nation now Is marching along
these lines, thanks 10 the virtue and in
tenigence of the American people"