: ILLUSTRATIONS. The "Olympia" Leading the Fighting Line at the Naval Battle of Manila. A Block House Near Manila Captured by the Astor Battery, August 13. A 12-inch Krupp Gun Mounted by Insurgents at Cavite. Dock of Manila, Showing the Landing of Ammunition Cases. View of a Suburb of Manila. Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the Insurgent Philippine Republic. Map Showing Lines of American Troops and Positions Captured from Filipinos. A Sugar Manufactory in Manila. Filipino Village on the Island of Panay. Attack on Caloocan by General Otis and Supporting War Ships, February 10, 1899. Filipino Women Bathing in the Pasig River. Lunette and 12-inch Krupp Gun Defending Cavite. Loading Commissary Stores at the Pasig River Wharf. ix Types of the Filipinos-Cockfighters, Female Water Carrier, Aboriginal Negrito, Native Women Shelling Corn. Native Washerwomen of Manila Crossing a Draw Bridge over the City Walls. The Poor of Manila Reduced to Subsistence on Fish, During the Siege of the City. Loading Transport Ships at Tampa with Army Supplies. On the Watch for Spanish Vessels off the Cuban Coast. Off for the War. Captain Fry of the "Virginius" Taking Leave of His Companions Before Their Execution. Spanish Officers Riding over the Bodies of the Executed Crew of the "Virginius," November 8, 1873. The Harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Scenes in and around Tampa Before the Start for Cuba. The Spanish Defence of San Juan Hill. Cruiser "Brooklyn" Capturing a Spanish Sailing Vessel. Hill near Baiquiri where Trumpeter Platt Hoisted the American Flag. Seven-inch Siege Gun in Action Before Santiago. American Troops Landing at Baiquiri. Burrowe's Dynamite Gun at the Siege of Santiago. Unloading Mules from a Transport off the Coast of Cuba. Wet Passage of a Drafted Passenger. The Signal Corps Stringing Telegraph Wires in Porto Rico. The Hand-to-Hand Struggle for San Juan Hill, July 2. 1 ১ D ILLUSTRATIONS. The Army Preparing to Move from Tampa. Welcoming Return of Our Victorious Fleet. President McKinley and General Miles Reviewing Troops at Camp Alger. The Last Man on Board Troop Ship for Manila. Landing Horses from Transports off Siboney. Spanish Outposts in Cuba; Stockade of Giant Cacti. The American Advance Line Before Santiago. Spanish Soldier Making Observations from a Palm Tree on San Juan Hill. The Astor Battery at Practice Near Manila. Shipping Siege Guns at Tampa for the Invasion of Cuba. Transports Conveying Troops to Cuba. The "St. Paul" Repulsing the Spanish Torpedo Boat "Terror." Meeting of Generals Shafter and Toral to Arrange the Terms of Santiago's Surrender. The Sixth Cavalry Hauling Pine Boughs to Make Shelter Tents. The Tenth Dragoons, Colored, at Skirmish Practice. Our Army at Tampa. A Company Mess at Dinner. Havana Harbor, Showing Forts and Anchorage of the "Maine." A Company of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The First Flag of Truce. Member of the Red Cross Presenting His Passport. Departure of Transport Vessels from Tampa, June 12. The Rough Riders Charging Up San Juan Hill, July 1. A Cuban Vidette. Loading Transport at Tampa. Flight of the Red Skins at the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain. Dash of Wilcox's Battery at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. The "Albemarle" Ramming the "Southfield," April 20, 1863. The Advance Guard. Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 22, 1864. The Recall. Pathetic Incident at the Battle of Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864. Sheridan's Charge at Winchester, August 12, 1864. Hooker's Assault at Battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863. Battery "H," of Ohio, in Action. Bombardment of Vera Cruz, March 23-29, 1847. Death of Lawrence in the Engagement Between the "Chesapeake" and "Shannon," June 1, 1813. The Battle of Chippewa, July 25, 1814. The First Shots for American Independence, April 19, 1775. Engagement Between the "Bon Homme Richard" and "Serapis," September 23, 1779. The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. The Battle of Saratoga, Wounding of Arnold, October 12, 1777 Battle of Camden and Death of General De Kalb, August 16, 1780. Map of the Country through which the Filipino Insurgents were Driven by the American Troops. " N OT since Lincoln delivered his most famous speech at Gettysburg, imperishable as is his name and is his name and deeds, has any public man spoken so eloquently to the people as did President McKinley at a peace celebration in Atlanta, Georgia, December 18, 1898. His patriotic and sublime utterances upon that occasion will survive and thrill the hearts of millions in the centuries to come. He said: I cannot withhold from this people my profound thanks for their hearty reception and the good will which they have shown me everywhere and in every way since I have been their guest. I thank them for the opportunity which this occasion gives me of meeting and greeting them, and for the pleasure it affords me to participate with them in honoring the army and the navy, to whose achievements we are indebted for one of the most brilliant chapters of American history. Other parts of the country have had their public thanksgivings and jubilees in honor of the historic events of the past year, but nowhere has there been greater rejoicing than among the people here, the gathered representatives of the South. I congratulate them upon their accurate observation of events which enabled them to fix a date which insured them the privilege of being the first to celebrate the signing of the treaty of peace by the American and Spanish Commissioners. Under hostile fire on a foreign soil, fighting in a common cause, the memory of old disagreements has faded into history. From camp and campaign there comes the magic healing which has closed ancient wounds and effaced their scars. For this result every American patriot will forever rejoice. It is no small indemnity for the cost of war. 1. 34 A MEMORABLE SPEECH BY PRESIDENT McKINLEY. This government has proved itself invincible in the recent war, and out of it has come a nation which will remain indivisible forever more. No worthier contributions have been made than by the people of these Southern States. When at last the opportunity came they were eager to meet it and with promptness responded to the call of the country. Intrusted with the able leadership of muear to them, who had marched with their fathers under another flag, now fighting under the old flag again, they have gloriously helped to defend its spotless folds and added new lustre to its shining stars. That flag has been planted in two hemispheres, and there it remains, the symbol of liberty and law, of peace and progress. Who Will Haul Down Our Flag? Who will withdraw from the people over whom it floats its protecting folds? The victory we celebrate is not that of a ruler, a President, or a Congress, but of the people. An army whose valor we admire, and a navy whose achievements we applaud, were not assembled by draft or conscription, but from voluntary enlistments. The heroes came from civil as well as military life. Trained and untrained soldiers wrought our triumphs. The peace we have won is not a selfish truce of arms, but one whose conditions presage good to humanity. The domains secured under the treaty yesterday, to be acted upon by the Senate, came to us not as the result of a crusade of conquest, but as the reward of temperate, faithful and fearless response to the call of conscience, which could not be disregarded by a liberty-loving and Christian people. We have so borne ourselves in the conflict and in our intercourse with the powers of the world as to escape complaint or complication and give universal confidence of our high purpose and unselfish sacrifices for struggling peoples. The task is not fulfilled. Indeed, it is only just begun. The most serious work is still before us, and every energy of heart and mind must be bent and the impulses of partisanship subordinated to its faithful execution. This is the time for earnest, not faint, hearts. "New occasions teach new duties." To this nation and every nation there come formative periods in its life and history. New conditions will be met only by new methods. Meeting these conditions hopefully and facing them bravely and wisely are to be the mightiest test of American virtue's capacity. Without abandoning past limitations, traditions and principles, but by meeting present opportunities and obligations, we shall show ourselves worthy of the great The Life of the trust which civilization has imposed upon us. A MEMORABLE SPEECH BY PRESIDENT McKINLEY. 35 At Bunker Hill, liberty was at stake; at Gettysburg, the Union was the issue; before Manila and Santiago, our armies fought not for gain or revenge, but for human rights. They contended for the freedom of the oppressed, for whose welfare the United States has never failed to lend a hand to establish and uphold, and, I believe, never will. The glories of the war cannot be dimmed, but the result will be incomplete and unworthy of us unless supplemented by civil victories, harder possibly to win, in their way no less indispensible. We will have our difficulties and our embarrassments. They follow all victories and accompany all great responsibilities. They are inseparable from every great movement or reform. But American capacity has triumphed over all in the past. Doubts have in the end vanished. Apparent dangers have been averted or avoided and our own history shows that progress has come so naturally and steadily on the heels of new and grave responsibilities that as we look back upon the acquisition of territory by our fathers we are filled with wonder that any doubt could have existed or any apprehension could have been felt of the wisdom of their action or their capacity to grapple with the then untried and mighty problems. The Republic is to-day larger, stronger and better prepared than ever before for wise and profitable developments in new directions. Even if the minds of some of our own people are still disturbed by perplexing and anxious doubts, in which all of us have shared and still share, the genius of American civilization will, I believe, be found both original and creative, and capable of subserving all the great interests which shall be confided to our keeping. Forever in the right, following the best impulses and clinging to high purposes, using properly and within right limits our power and opportunities, honorable reward must inevitably follow. The outcome cannot be in doubt. Strong in the Right, Merciful in Our Sentiments. We could have avoided all the difficulties that lie across the pathway of the nation if a few months ago we had coldly ignored the piteous appeals of the starving and oppressed inhabitants of Cuba. If we had blinded ourselves to the conditions so near our shores and turned a deaf ear to our suffering neighbors, the issue of the territorial expansion in the Antilles and the East Indies would not have been raised. But could we have justified such a course? Is there any one who would now declare another to have been the better course? With less humanity and less courage on our part, the Spanish flag, instead of the Stars and Stripes, would still be floating at Cavite, at Ponce and at Santiago, and a |