The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-31
M'K|N[EY'S MEMORY
 HON0RED BY MANY Ohio Society Gives Banquet
 in Washington AN ADDRESS BY TAFT The President Recalls McIxinIey,s Last Public Utterance on Reciprocity
 Delivered the Day Before
 His Death
AN ADDRESS BY TAFT

Washington. January 3O-The last pub
 lie utterances of President Mckinley in
 iaVor or reciprocity, made the day before
 he was assassinated at Buffalo, were re-
 called tonight by President Taft in an ad-
 dress at the Ohio society's anniversary
 banquet in commemoration of the McKin-
 ley birthday.
 Many men associated with President
 Mckinley in public office and prominent Ohioans were present. Justice Day, for nor Vice President Fairbanks and Sem ator Dick of Ohio were among the speakers
 President Taft eulogized the character of the martyred President and paid a | high tribute to his attitude on the com
 mercial expansion of the country with particular reference to the declarations
 in favor of reciprocity generally, made
 by President Mckinley at the Pan-Amer-
 ican exposition at Buffalo.
 "The broadening effect of the national
 responsibility Mckinley had to carry" said President Taft shows itself in no
 respect more conspicuously than in this
 change of view on his part in respect of
 a policy of which he had always been
 the chief exponent. May we not hope that the change he advocated may soon find expression in our national policy to-
 ward our good neighbor on the north, who
 has come half way to meet us? May the fragrance of his beloved memory lead those upon whom Is the responsibility
 and incline their minds and hearts to
 this end.
 "The Canadian agreement, if confirmed
 by legislative action will be fitting | close to a century's controversies and and permanently establish good feeling and commercial union between kindred
 peoples. We shall find a rapidly ncreas-
 ing market for our numerous products among the people of our neighbor. We
 shall deepen and widen the sources of
 our food supply in territory close at | hand.
 Our kinship, our common sympathies,
 our similar moral and social ideas furnish the strongest reason for supporting this | agreement.
 | Canada is our neighbor for 5000 miles, l We have not always acted toward her in manner most conciliatory or with due regard to her sensibilities. She has be- | come great country-indeed, nation. | She causes us to use no forts or battle | ships She does not attack us and never will She extends the brotherly hand of | friendship and proposes closer relations with mutual acceptance. I am proud as son of Ohio to bring forward for ap- | proval and effective action a measure carrying the policy which he proclaimed | and made his own at the acme of his great career"
 President Taft in reviewing the political I (f,.Ia 0f ha y11- paign of 1896 as one in which the flair name and credit of the nation was at stake"
 He declared that Mckinley became in | it the representative 'of many democrats who did not agree with him on the tariff but who listened long and closely | to see if he was sound on the currency question:. s | The President dwelt on the peculiar re- sponsibiities and circumstances brought | forth during the Mckinley administration hv the war with Spain, the acquisition of the Philippines and Porto Rico, and com rnented on the bitter attacks on the Mc- Kinley policies which followed these events Of McKinley's commercial policy President Taft spoke at length. He (McKinley) felt the expansion or this country into great world power said the President. He saw the future | growth of it's commerce with other na- | lions. He came to know that the high protection policy was too provincial ana | that it was time to moderate it. Chi | nese wall and entire exclusiveness did not commend themselves to him in the | then state of the country and the de- | velopment of it's industries He continued to believe in protection enough to pre- vent our industries from being destroyed by competition under conditions abroad that were impossible here; but he pro- rosed to mitigate the exclusiveness of nrotectiye tariff by reciprocity treaties that should reduce rates where the re- Guctions would do no substantial injury to any class of our producers or mapufac- turers and would secure more favorable markets for our own goods.
 Accordingly. after his second election at Buffalo, facing an immense audience 1 in that Pan American exposition. and looking over toward our sister country | on the north, he spoke the words show | ing that he thought the time had come l for greater liberality in our dealings with other countries and for mutual benefits | in reciprocity reductions of tariffs | Associate Justice William R. Day of l the supreme court of the United States, who was secretary of state under Pres ident Mckinley, was toastmaster. He characterized President Mckinley as man who had "a disposition to persevere and an ability to improve
 "There are many present tonight said Justice Day, ito whom the mention of l the name of President William McKin- ley suggests, not so much the statesman and leader and chief executive of the people, as the friend and neighbor known | so well and cherished so much.
 "The quick passage of the years are already making the administration of William Mckinley memory of the past. Whatever the historian may record here after. there are certain great events | identified with the administration of the office to which his countrymen called him which never can be altered and ought never to be forgotten"
 l Former Vice President Fairbanks spoke on william Mckinley, the Citizen" 1 "President Mckinley said MT. Fair hanks. stood for a high order of civic virtue, whether he was practcng law yer. congressman, governor or president Who among our great Americans occu- pied a more enviable position? His praise
 was upon every lip; sectional animosi- 1 ties among his countrymen had died WAY. there were prosperity and progress | evervwhere His was not a meteoric career He went forward step by step l with patient, unfaltering trust"
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