Dec 20, 1898
Answering your message of December 14, the President directs that you send necessary troops to Iloilo to preserve the peace and protect life and property.
William McKinley
The Public Record
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Ohio and previously served as the governor of Ohio from 1892 to 1896. McKinley is known for leading the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and for implementing protective tariffs to bolster American industry while maintaining the gold standard.
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Dec 20, 1898
It is most important that there should be no conflict with the insurgents.
Dec 20, 1898
All persons who, either by active aid or by honest submission, co-operate with the Government of the United States to give effect to these beneficent purposes will receive the reward of its support and protection.
Dec 13, 1898
The Union is once more the common altar of our love and loyalty, our devotion and sacrifice.
Dec 13, 1898
A nation which cares for its disabled soldiers as we have always done will never lack defenders.
Dec 13, 1898
The national cemeteries for those who fell in battle are proof that the dead as well as the living have our love.
Dec 13, 1898
What a glorious future awaits us if unitedly, wisely, and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them for right and humanity!
Dec 13, 1898
Fraternity is the national anthem, sung by a chorus of forty-five States and our Territories at home and beyond the seas.
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