At the outgoing of the old and the incoming of the new century you begin the last session of the Fifty-sixth Congress with evidences on every hand of individual and national prosperity and with proof of the growing strength and increasing power for good of Republican institutions.
William McKinley: “At the outgoing of the old and the incoming of the new century you begin the last session of the Fifty-sixth Congress…”
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McKinley reflects on the prosperity and strength of the Republic at the turn of the century.
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