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Source: Daily Picayune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “To Rename the Philippines” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana Date of publication: 30 September 1901 Volume number: 65 Issue number: 249 Pagination: 2 |
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| “To Rename the Philippines.” Daily Picayune 30 Sept. 1901 v65n249: p. 2. |
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| Philippines (renaming as McKinley Archipelago); McKinley memorialization. |
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To Rename the Philippines
Suggestion at Washington to Call Them McKinley Archipelago.
[Special to the Picayune.]
New York, Sept. 29.—The World special says:
Washington, Sept. 29.—A proposition to change
the name of the Philippine islands to the McKinley islands, and thus perpetuate
the memory of the murdered president, is being formulated here.
If the proposition meets with popular favor and
if the public men of both parties take hold of the matter, the next congress
will be asked to make the change and inform the world that after the passage
of the resolution the maps of the earth must be changed and the words “McKinley
Archipelago” inserted where the “Philippine Archipelago” label has stood for
400 years.
It has been proposed also that congress could
with propriety go further and rename the islands in the group to commemorate
the men who fought for them. For instance, Luzon might be named “Dewey island,”
another “Lawton island” another “Funston island, ” and so on down through the
list.