Richmond Dispatch

He Says He Expects Peace in the Philippines Shortly.

LAST SPEECH OF HIS TOUR.

It is Delivered at Youngstown to an Audience of 20,000.

WHY WE ARE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

We Sought No Responsibility There But Responsibility Was Put Upon Us—Hanna on Hand at Cleveland and is Warmly Greeted.

CLEVELAND, O., October 18.—President McKinley and his party reached this city at 8:45 o'clock this morning. A reception committee and members of the City Council, headed by Mayor J. H. Farley, welcomed the President. Senator Hanna was warmly greeted at the depot by the entire party.

Carriages had been provided for a ten-mile drive out Euclid avenue, through Gordon and Wade parks.

President McKinley, Secretary-of-the-Navy Long, and Senator Hanna spoke briefly. Several hundred G. A. R. men called to pay their respects. The President said:

"I think I have never seen such a demonstration of patriotism, such an exhibition of public consecration to the public good, as I have witnessed in the last two weeks. The grave and serious problems which rest upon us account for this unusual interest on the part of the people in public affairs. The problems are grave; the responsibilities are great. Nobody feels them more than I do; nobody can feel them more than I do. Yet, my countrymen, our duty is plain, straightforward, unmistakable—to stand by the national honor, and preserve the territory we got by solemn treaty.

PEACE WILL COME SOON.

"Our soldiers, carrying our flag in Luzon, will be supported by the people of the United States, and hostilities will stop in that distant island of the sea when the men who assaulted our flag and our soldiers shall lay down their arms. Peace will come, and I trust and believe come shortly, and we will be able to give to those people in the Philippines a government of liberty and law—a government which will encourage their best aspirations and their noblest aims—a government under the undisputed sovereignty of the United States."

Colonel Myron T. Herrick entertained the presidential party at luncheon this afternoon.

At 2:30 o'clock the presidential special departed over the Erie Line.

LAST SPEECH OF TOUR.

YOUNGSTOWN, O., October 18.—President McKinley's special train arrived here at 5 o'clock this evening, and the Chief Executive delivered the last speech of his tour. The train was backed into a side-track, and the President and his Cabinet went on foot to a platform near by. Apparently everybody in town had crowded into the two streets facing the platform, and it was with great difficulty that the President could make himself heard. It was estimated that 20,000 people were packed into the narrow space surrounding the speakers' stand. As the President proceeded they became quieter, and enthusiastically cheered every point in his address.

He spoke as follows:

WELCOME FROM WORKINGMEN.

"I congratulate this community, devoted, as it is, to industry and manufacture, upon the improved conditions of the country in the last two years and a half. Nothing in this whole journey of mine, of more than five thousand miles, into the great Northwest and through the Central and Western States—nothing has given me more genuine pleasure than the welcome I have had from Cleveland to Youngstown by the workingmen employed in the mills and factories along the line.

"We have now before us some grave problems in government—problems that command, not only for the President, but for all the people, a steady and sober judgment; problems not to be settled by one party or another, but by all the people; problems wider than party or section: problems that are national, and which this people must settle, and settle forever, for right and justice, following the plain path of duty.

NOT IN PHILIPPINES FOR CONQUEST.

"We are in the Philippines, our flag is there, our boys in blue are there. They are not there for conquest; they are not there for dominance; they are not there for exploitation. They are there because, in the providence of God, who moves mysteriously, that great archipelago has been placed in the hands of the American people. When Dewey sank the ships in Manila bay, as he was ordered to do, it was not to capture the Philippines, it was to destroy the Spanish fleet, the fleet of the nation against which we were waging war, and we

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