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Presidents Speech.

The President said:
Mr.. Chairman. Mr.. President and my
Brethren of Ohio:
We are here tonight to celebrate the
birthday of Mckinley 1t is a most ap-
propriate occasion for a meeting of the
Ohio Society. There are few men more
closely identified with state than Nc
kinley was with Ohio. Born in Ohio at
Niles. where We are now erecting most
appropriate memorial in, his honor his
whole life he lived in his native state
\ member of an Ohio regiment in the
civil war, prosecuting attorney of his own
county, u representative for many terms
from one of its most important districts,
governor of the state for two terms, init
mately acquainted with the people OF every
city and every county, with close and
valued friends in great number from that
state, he was an Ohio man i'm a more init
mate sense than almost any man | have
ever known. There are those of us who
claim to he Ohio men and are proud of
the state of our nativity. but circum-
stances have prevented us from becoming
identified i'm any such way with the people
OF the state as MCKINLEY was.
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|PAPE'S! BREAKS
( A COLD At ONCE.
First Dose OF Pape's Cold
Compound Ends Grippe
Misery-Tastes Nice
No Ouinine.

You can surely end Grippe and
break up the most severe cold
either in head. chest, back. stom-
ach OF limbs by taking dose of
Pape's Cold Compound every
two hours until three consecu-
tive doses are taken.
II promptly relieves the most
miserable headache. dullness.
head and nose stuffed up. fever
ishness. Sneczing. sore throat,
mucous catarrhal discharges,
running OF the nose. soreness,
stiffness and rheumatic twinges.
Take this wonderful Com
pound as directed. without inter
terence with your usual duties
and with the knowledge that
there l. nothing else in the
world which will cure Your cold
or end Grippe misery as prompt
Nv and without any other assist
ancc or bad alter effects as a 25-
cent package OF Papc's Cold
Compound. which any druggist
can supply-acccp no substi-
tutc-contdIns no quinine-bc-
longs lii every home. Tastes
Observation-Disclosures
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recrudescence OF opposition to OR
Philippine policy and threat to turn
back the hands of time, to reverse the
verdict of a decade. and though in sight
which has been achieved and to initiate
new experiment. which can only result
in confusion and humiliation and defeat;
can only involve us In embarrassing in
ternational obligations. and. after it shall
have failed can bring again with di-
minished prestige to readOpt the policy
which it is now proposed for LIS to
abandon.
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United States averaged about 500, coo.
The total annual imports from all coun-
tries into the islands have increased to
more than $jO.000.O00. while the imports
into the Philippines from the United
States have increased from sJOO.OOO to
$24. 100000.
THE manufactures of cotton imported
into the Philippine Islands have increased
from comparatively nothing to nearly
$6.O0OO0O. which is considerably more
than so per cent of the total imports OF
cotton in the islands. The iron and steel
manufactures have increased from half a
million to four millions of dollars. They
constitute more than S0~per cent of the
total imports of iron.
Foreign Business.
"rhe total foreign business of the
Philippines. exports and imports. under
the twelve years rule of America, has in
creased from $5O.OOOOOO to s1O0.EO.G00;
while the total business with the Unite I
States has increased in twelve years fl ON
$4.OUO,OOO to S+CGOO,OOO.
1--WE have instituted all classes of
schools in the islands-primary. secondary
and collegiate. In the years 191l-12.
there were 1864 primary schools 2S3 in
termedate schools. 80 secondary schools,
or =, $50 schools in all, with teachers num-
bering 1000; with 529,655 pupils enrolled,
with an average daily attendance OF 329,-
and all the rest are Filipinos. vino have
learned English and are teaching English.
1P,t is more English spoken in the
islands now than there Is Spanish. Eng
lish in the course of two generations will
become the language Of all the people Of
the islands.
THE education, the public improvements.
the road improvements. the great protec-
ton of life and property which has come
under American control have increased
ba nf
$15, 519,9OS, while the insular revenues are
$15623, S36. In the ten years there has
been created a bonded Indebtedness OF
ST. OCO, OOO-for public works and improve
mentS $4,000 and for the friar land
bonds $7.OOOOOO.
THE purchase of the friar land bonds
was essential. from political stand
point, to rid the island of an issue whose
continuance would compel perpetual as
turbance. The friars lands are now be-
ing disposed Of at such prices as to re-
deem the bonds in full.
Cost of improvements.
I'm addition to the five-millon-do
Improvement bonds. there has been ex-
pended from the revenue for improve
ments and equipments. about $4,000, 600.
In addition to this. S4.OOO,OOO was eXpend-
ed to provide waterworks and sewerage
system in the city of Manila, which is as
good as that of any city in the orient or
the occident, and S12J.000 for the city of
Cebu. expended for similar purpose.
Except $4,000 D appropriated to help the
people in the Philippines in a famine. the
civil government has been entirely self
supporting
Some criticism has been made of the
character of the government in the
Philippines being tyrannical, and as
also having been wasteful. l speak with
very considerable knowledge of the gov
eminent for the first half of the last
decade. because | was in the islands. and
with good deal of Information about
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People Have Voice.

1T is the first oriental colony in which
a popular national assembly was estab-
lished. and i'm which the people today ex-
ercise very substantial control of gov
ernmental affairs.
"A history Of the financial management
of the islands will show that it has been
more economically run, that its income
has been increased In proportion more
substantially by safe and business-like
custody of its funds than any other.
against a great many years of successive
crop failures. with a disease that carried
off three-fourths of the draft cattle of
the islands, with cholera. plague and
black smallpox showing their ugly heads
wherever energy and activity in the en-
fOrcement of the health laws were abated,
the people Of the Philippines are in a
condition of greater prosperity, higher in
telligence and greater happiness than
ever in their history. and If this sensible
method of treating the problem can only
be continued for one or two generations.
the result will commend itself to the
whole civilized world
But for the stirring up Of the political
ambitions Of the educated leaders among
the Philippine people, and the holding
out to the people of false hopes of COM
fort and happiness to proceed from absO-
lutte Independence. the condition OF the
islands would be one of ever-progressins
betterment and improvement, and that is
what has happened in the islands in the
last ten years
But now, with the threat of change
of condition, and with stirring up of
unhealthy and unnecessary political eX-
element, there is danger that this prog
ress will be hindered and that the atten-
ton which the people have been giving
to successful agricultural pursuits will
now be diverted to a dream of change
which cannot but interfere with the
proper growth in the islands of industry,
education and properly graduated train
Is All to Changer
rs it possible that great party like
the democratic party. now become re-
sponsible for the administration of this
country, is going to reverse a policy
that has indicated itself so completely
in ten years, for mere purposes of con-
formity to cobwebbed planks in forgotten
platforms upon the most prejudiced in
formation? Will they not. before they
take an irretrievable step. take some
measures to secure reliable information
as to the conditions which prevail in
the islands. and as to the effect upon
those conditions which the new policy is
likely to have?
mo plea of consistency will justify
such drastic action that the expert
ence Of more than decade has relocated
the question as campaign issue to the
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ties which followed it developed in him
breadth of view. an administrative ablllty
and poise of judgment that entitled
him to stand among the great men or the
world: and while we who knew him val
ued him in our hearts chiefly because OF
the affection we bore him that reflected
the sweetness of his nature and was "a
response to his most exceptional lovable
qualities. his figure in history Will be that
of the pilot of the nation who guided our
shipe Of state from limited influence
somewhat insular and contracted out
onto the broad bosom of the OCEAN Oh
power and responsibility.
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tn saw about them later on. and when
that times comes | am not going to ask
leave to extend my remarks in the Rec
nrd either -
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intimate home life of Mckinley. He
called him The Great American" Tell
ing story of a newspaper man who once
remarked to Mckinley that the latter
had the greatest self-control. Mckinley
replied:
Yes / have learned discipline. Mrs.
Mc<inley's physician believes that L can
either strengthen or weaken her hold on
life in her invalid condition. L never go
into her presence without smile, as
though the world were mine and running
as I would have it run. Her life Is the
highest stake | ever played for. and L
play to win. So, Ii is true that L must
have self-controL"
The banquet was presided over by Mr..
Justice Day of the Supreme Court. and
Senator Pomerene told OF how he and
other Ohioans had loved Mckinley. In
introducing the speakers Mr.. Justice
Day, who was complimented by them in
turn, played upon the theme THE Rain
bow Comes Down in Ohio
The banquet was a veritable love
feast of Ohioans, the decorations in
compliment to the memory of Mckinley,
being carnations for the table, button.
nieres of the flower being placed at every
plate.
Those at the Guest Table.
At the guest table We're the President
of the United States. the Speaker of the
ton. Senator Pomerene. Representative
Cannon. Mr.. Justice Lurton, Mr.. Justice
Lamar. Mr.. Justice McKenna. Admiral
Hemphin. A. S. worthington. Maj
Thomas l.. Rhoads Maj. c. ID. Rhodes.
Rudolph Kaufman. John T. Granger.
Ralph ID. Cole. E. b. Johns. Lawrence o.
Murray. Samuel b. Donnelly. F. b. WI.
borg. Charles ID. Hilles. Judge c. w. Dus-
tin. Joseph G. Butler, Frank b: Willis.
Wade III. Ellis. Robert o. Bailey, DIR.
Abram Simon. Francis b. James and
Robert T. Hough.
Other Guests Present
In addition the following other guests
We're present: Edward w. Pyle. William
w. Hodgson. George n. kochesparger.
Henry Roever. Mrs. Roever, Josiah Q.
Kern. Mrs. Atlee Pomerene. Mrs. Brant.
Dr. William NJ Davidson, Mrs. Davidson,
Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey. Mrs. Margaret IL.
Worrell. Lewis ID. Peppler Addison T.
Smith. Mrs. Smith. Mrs. S. b. Lingo. NJ.
F. O'Donoghue. Miss Louise ID. Hosier.
Miss Charlotte i. Belden. Miss Mary 5.
Moore. Alfred G. Allen. Mrs. Allen. ". \.
Ashbrook. Mrs Ashbrook. Matthew Il.
Denver. Mrs. Denver. William q. SHARP.
Mrs Sharp. Robert j. Buckley. Mrs. Bukley.
Rev. Earl Cranston. Mrs. Cranston, sam
uel *. Hall. Justice Anderson. Rev br.
James X Montgomery Mrs. Montgomery,
w. w. Mischler. Miss Ida Ewing. Cot.
Fred &. Bryan, William NJ. Lyle. DIR. g.
NJ. Gearhart. Mrs. Gearhart, Miss Cora
smith John Dolph. Mrs Doiph. Mrs. II.
r. Worthington. Miss Anne Piatt Worth
inston. Arthur Newton. Jere Mathews.
Mrs Mathews. T.. J. Clark. Mrs. Clark.
&. A. Clapp. DIR. j. W. Cole. Mrs. Cole,
DR. Alfred G. Gundry. DIR. William :.
Gardner, Mrs. Gardner. DIR. II. r. GundrN.
Mrs Gundry. w. r. Kuhns. Mrs. Kuhus.
George l.. Curricr Mrs. Curricr. Albert
Continued on Fourteenth Page
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Cannon for Retention.

The last speaker of the evening. former
Speaker Cannon. Joined with president
Taft in urging the retention of the Philip
pines.
I'VE are responsible for those Islands.
he said, from the standpoint or hohor'
pride and duty We can no more rid our
selves of those islands than Hercules
could rid himself of the shirt of Nessus.
IF the democratic party tries to rid
us of the Philippines will have TO pay
the penalty, for penalty there surely VIII
be- and we will have the most trying
times in this country in consequence OF
it, eventually I'm the end to go back there
and take charge. With power comes re-
Gponsibility and the democrats must
realize that 1 am too old now to be a
partisan any more, but, in common with
100. 100000 other Americans, l demand re-
| suits and the greatest good for tn egreat-
est number.
"Our democratic friends forced upon us
the war with Spain. 1t was anything,
from their standpoint. for success. The
republican administration, jealous, as
to tell Spain that it would have to get off
the American continent. Mckinley re-
sisted long, but when the Maine was de-
stroyed l was sent for one Sunday night
to come to the White House, and out Of a
conversation there with the President, at
which Gen. GroSvenOr was present, arose
the bill which / dropped in the basket at
the House the following day, appropriate
ing $5OOO0,O0o for the national defense, a
step that was told of around the world by
cable within ten minutes.
Responsibility Will Endure.
From the consequences of that act
arose our responsibility in the Philip
pines. and after all We have done there
that responsibility will endure forever"
Senator Burton of Ohio who also spoke
on Mckinley. made a plea for greater
recognition of the public man, and at its
conclusion 1t was easy to see that the
public man he had most in mind was
President Taft. He spoke of the indiffer-
ence of the body electorate to matters
of public import, and declared the United
States needs new platform of civic vir-
tue. Speaking of the criticism that is
Ieveled at public men, he declared IL is
useless to suppose that those who are
trusted in High places are on lower
level than those who placed them there.
Speaking directly of the President. Sem
ator Burton said: You have enforced
laws against combinations. both large
and small. You have turned a national
proved the Post Office Department: YOU
nave established postal savings banks;
You have established the parcel post.
You have put on the statute books laws
providing for the indemnfication of en-
ployes You have led the world i'm the
peace movement. There will yet be JUS
tice in the worlds eyes for all the great
deeds you have wrought
Home Life of Mckinley.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio told Of the
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Were Soundly Beaten.

I'VE republicans were soundly beaten
in the last presidential election, and A
proper sense of humility would prevent
any attempt on our part. however deep
our convictions, to reargue the issues Of
the campaign in which we suffered such
a reverse, and therefore you will not hear
me on the tariff, on the currency or on
definition of progressive policies or
upon anything which influenced the vot-
ers in the last campaign.
But such rule of propriety ought
not to silence those Of us who feel most
deeply in respect of our Philippine policy
when it's merits or dement's cannot be
said to have played any part whatever in
making up the popular conclusions eX-
pressed in the late election.
what occupies the public mind and with
political issues that are really alive
among the people will agree with me that
for the last two presidential terms the
people in general have regarded the Phil
ippine questions as largely academic and
have treated the national policy in re-
gard to the islands as fixed and deter
mined by its success. Therefore those or
us who by reason of our information and
experience believe that a reversal OF that
policy now will lead to national humilia-
ton and a train of ADVERTISEMENTS and
failures should not remain with our
mouths closed, but have a right to appeal
TO thOs who are coming into power in
the next administratiOn-the executive
and the legiSlatOrs,-tO inform themselves
we'll before they depart from a course
with the utmost benefit to the people of
the Philippine Islands and in respect to
which the future offers every augury OF
success.
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Not Supported at Polls.

The President urged his hearers TO
spread the gospel he preached. He de-
Clarcd that there has been no question of
the dependence or Independence of the
Philippines in the last two national cam
paiSnS. and that therefore the subject
has not been an issue before the country,
and consequently advocates of freeing
the islands cannot claim that their po-
sition has been supported at the polls.
He quoted figures to show that the civil
government Of the islands is Seif-sLp
porting al last, on basis of about SID
0iN.0o0 revenues and the same amount of
expenditures. and he warned the country
that the men in the Philippines who have
given their lives to the humanitarian
cause of the islands would look with no
favorable eye on the proposed democratic
program of freedom. He invited students
of the question to take the opinion of any
of the missionaries in the islands. of no
matter what denomination as to whether
or not the islands approaching the
period when they can safely he allowed
10 assume the responsibility OF self-gov-
eminent. History. he said. has no rec
ord of any more Gisinterested. unselfish
and benevolent spirit than that which has
characterized the treatment by the United
States of these islands
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limbo of free silver. or the narrow doc
trine of states rights
The democratic party exposes itself to
no attack if it pursues the policy of
proved success in the Philippines, be-
cause the republicans cannot criticise
their opponents for recognizing what has
proven to be good in the party's past.
and the number of those who continue to
give out their lucubrations as anti-im-
perialists is hardly greater than those
who will attend the next inaugural ball.
'The new legislation is proposed in re-
Spouse to no popular demand, but it is
fraught with the direst difficulty and bur-
den to any party that assumes respon-
sibility for it's enactment
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Clark Differs With Taft.

Speaker Clark followed the President.
and although he devoted most of his re-
marks to "reminiscences of his early days
in Ohio and his affiliations with the pub
lie men of that state. he made one ref
erence to the announcements of Presi-
dent Taft in regard to the Philippines,
when he declared:
Il will say this much. | wish we were
out of the Philippines in as good shape as
we were when We went in there.
Now, i am not going to debate the
question of the Philippines with President
Taft But, as to the democratic PLATFORM
which. as you all know, did not write.
perhaps / would not have included in 1t
some of the planks put there by the
trainers.
But ! do believe that when men get
into Office they ought to religiously live
up to the promises they made to get in.
Il don't want to say any more about
the Philippines at this time. but | may
as well say that l shall have something
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Points Out Danger.

The President in his speech. led natUr-
ally from memories of Mckinley and the
Spanish-American war to a warming of
the danger there lies in the possibility of
giving up the islands. subject with
which. he reminded his hearers. he is es-
pecially familiar. and on which he has
more than ordinary claim to speak with
authority by reason of his long connec-
ton in the most intimate details
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the government since that time because
have been more less responsible for it.
and l affirm that there has been no such
instance of success in colonial govern
ment in the history of worlds colonies as
the administration of the Philippine Is
lands. There has been no colony in
which the welfare of the people of the
colony has been the sole guide in it's
management, and in which there has
been such an ambitious program for the
education of the people and the fitting of
them for self-gOYernment.
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Forced Into War.

This change was not of Mckinley's in
itiation or seeking. He was forced into
the Spanish war. He would have avoided
ii had he been able. but when he saw 1t
To be inevitable he took control and guild
ed the movement with marked success.
and impaired to the force with which we
expanded our power and our territory
the spirit of benevOlence and the promo
ton of Christian civilization.
History has no record OF any more
unselfish expenditure of life and treas
ure than that of the United States in the
Cuban war History has no record or
any more disinterested. unselfish and be-
nevolent spirit than that which has char-
acterized the treatment by the United
States of the Philippines and Porto Rico.
and in all of these. though Mckinley fell
by the assassin's bullet in September.
1901 and though many difficult problems
growing out of this expansion have had
TO be solved since his death, the whole
course of the government has been affect
ed by the benignity Of his original pur-
pose and by the loving care that he mani
tested for all the wards of the nation In
the expansion of the nations power ana
responsibilities during his guidance of the
couptrv'S course.
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Attitude Defended.

The attitude which he occupied. and
into which he led his party and his coun-
try, was the object for years of the Dit
terest political attack both before and
after his lamented death. This fierce ques-
tioning of his motives and those who fol-
lowed him, this heated denunciation OF
the selfish spirit of exploitation. which
was supposed 10 be the underlying pur-
pose, had the effect of keeping the DOM
inant party and those who controlled its
course anxious to show in everything
that was done the spirit which actuated
Mckinley in the initiation of the policy,
and have brought about the result that
one of the prize pages in the history of
the United States is that which covers
the treatment of Cuba. Porto Rico and
the Philippines in the fourteen years
since they came under our influence and
control
And now. after three administrations
and more have passed. after the policy of
dealing with Porto Rico and the Philip
pines has become more or less fixed by
the success that has attended il in this
preceding decade. and after two Sue
cessivc presidential campaigns which, in
the silence with which the issue has been
treated. seemed to show "A general acqu-
..Scence i'm our successful treatment of our
spanish dependencies. the country has
changed from "a republican 10 a demo-
eratic administration, and We are met b.