The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-30
HIGH TRIBUTE
PAID 'K|NLEY
BY SPEAKERS At MEMORIAL
BANQUET w CLEVELAND
LAST NIGHT.
TAFT GUEST OF HONOR
Other Speakers TAT q coantry's
Growth Under Mxrtyrcd Presi-
dents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
brations Elsewhere.

/ cleveland, Jan, Z5.-MchlniCy
martyred president, was the keynote
OF several addresses delivered at the
| lTippeaanoc clubs annual Mckinley
| Day banquet here tonight at which
Secretary Taft was the guest ol
honor. The secretary spoke on The
Republic. All speakers confined
theiT remaks to the life and deeds OF
Mckinley. who was eulogized as the
ilIustrious son OF Ohio, and discus
sion Of problems engendered by the
SpanishsAmerican war and the acaui-
sition of the philippines and Islands
Of the Caribbean Sea
The banquet was preceded byS a
public reception at the Chamber of
Commerce hall Men prominent in
politics from Cleveland and all parts
Of the state and few prominent IN
national affairs we're In attendance.
At the banquet Taft was introduced
by the president as "the next presf
dent Of the United States The
cheering that followed was long and
continued Taft confined himself to
the eulogy of Mckinley and the soln-
tion Of problems brought about by
the war with Spain during the Me.
Kinley administration. Taft spoke In
part as follows:
Those Of us who soox back to Nc
Kinley's administration and II diIri.
cult to separate from hts adninistra-
ton the great battle for honest money
and for integrity Of the fatioIi's
plighted faith with which his admins,
tration was ushered In. Conditions
surrounding that controversy make il
one OF the most remarkable victories
for popular government awarsa achiGxad.
with the undoubted majority Of
The electorate. embracing many OF
both parties, lured to the support of
free coinage of silver by the sophis
tical arguments OF pseudo scientists
and by the severe stress OF the most
grievous Industrial depression. a
change was effected and the majority
of the voters we're ultimately made,
by hard educational campaign, to
see the right and forever stamp out
the heresy that debt may be honestly
paid by rendering to the creditor a
little more than half of that in real
value which he loaned his debtor.
But while this was the most i'm
portant result In the history OF the
country 1t was rather an ELECTORAL
victory than one of the administra-
ton of McKonley. That which really
the administration of
is the war with Spain and
the expansion which followed It,"
Taft here entered upon a lengthy
OF our isalnd possessions
and our right to govern other people
rhis right he claimed that we have
Always exercised under the consti-
luton by federal government and
control of territories. a right that
has always met the approval Of the
states of the union.
"If we assume control over a people
merely nj spirit of conquest and mere
y OF extend our control and merely
rom lust of power" he said, then
NC may be properly denounced as
but II we assume con
rol over people for the benefit Of that
'eople and with the purpose of de
'eloping them to seff-governing capa. |
ity. and with the intention OF giving |
hem the right to become independent
When they shall snow themselves fit.
hen the charge that we are imperiai
SITS is utterly without foundation"