Washington, DC – When President Donald Trump signed an executive decree on his first day of office by changing the name of the northern North America of Denali to Mount McKinley, he restored a name he was Given over a century ago to honor the nation 25th president, William McKinley de Canton.
“We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, in Mount McKinley, where he should be and where he belongs,” Trump said in his inaugural speech. “President McKinley made our country very rich through prices and talents. He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many great things he has done, including the Panama Canal. »»
The order held a promise that Trump made during his first presidential race in 2015, but also pays tribute to a president whom he considered a kind of political muse.
Trump cited McKinley’s pricing policies as a role model in his calls to impose prices of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on Chinese goods in order to stimulate national manufacturing, D ‘Increase government revenues and ensure greater cooperation on the part of the country on the cessation of illegal immigration and fenanyl smuggling.
Trump’s executive decree reversing the mountain also applauded American territorial expansions during McKinley’s mandate. Trump discussed the Annex to Greenland from Denmark, taking over the Panama Canal and said he would like to make Canada the 51st state.
“President William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, heroically led our nation to victory in the Hispanian-American war,” said the decree. “Under its leadership, the United States has experienced rapid economic and prosperity, including expansion of territorial gains for the nation. President McKinley defended prices to protect American manufacturing, stimulating domestic production and stimulating the industrialization of the United States and the global scope of new heights. He was tragically murdered in an attack on the values of our nation and our success, and it should be honored for its unshakable commitment to American grandeur. »»
Trump’s decision reversed a 2015 name change made by former President Barack Obama in response to the requests of native Alaskans. When Obama announced the name change, his administration published a statement which noted that McKinley “never set foot in Alaska”, and the peak which increases to about 20,000 feet above sea level was known as Denali for centuries before a prospector decides that he should be appointed for McKinley.
According to the US Geological Survey, the mountain was appointed for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector and McKinley Backer who wrote a story of his adventures in Alaska in January 24, 1897, edition of the New York Sun.
But the Athabaskan people who lived in the region had always called it “Denali”, which means “the big one”. Alaska officials rendered this official name for the use of the State in 1975, and the state of Alaska had requested the federal change since this year.
Before the action of Obama, the former representative of the County Gop of Holmes, Bob Gibbs, whose congress district includes parties in the canton region, had introduced a bill to the congress to avoid change. He was indignant by the action of Obama and described it as “constitutional overcoming”.
Because the Congress adopted a law in 1917 to name the mountain after McKinley, Gibbs said that “another act of the Congress is required to make future modifications of the name”.
Trump had promised to change the name of the mountain in McKinley during the campaign for the presidency in 2015, calling Obama’s decision, a “great insult to Ohio”. But he did not hold this promise during his first mandate of the White House, despite the requests of the members of the Ohio Congress, led by Gibbs.
In an interview this week, Gibbs described the name change of Obama as “disrespectful towards President McKinley’s inheritance”, as well as a political gesture of Obama to break into Alaskans before a visit to the state .
“President Trump does the right thing by bringing him back,” said Gibbs, who thinks that there are a good number of parallels between McKinley’s policies and those wanted by Trump, including the promotion of prices and “politics first type policy in America ”.
The Alaska Congress Delegation was less enthusiastic about the change, with the American republican senator Lisa Murkowski saying that she was “strongly” in disagreement with Trump.
“The highest mountain of our nation, which has been called Denali for thousands of years, must continue to be known as the legitimate name granted by Koyukon Athabascans in Alaska, which has managed the field since time immemorial,” said A statement that Murkowski published on social networks.
When asked for the reaction of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum to the name change, executive director Kimberly A. Kenney said that the private non -profit organization that owns and operates the McKinley National Memorial still appreciates when her name appears in the national conversation.
Ryan Stenger, member of the Board of Directors of the Presidential Library and the McKinley Museum which collects McKinley Memorabilia and is head of the exploitation and co -founder of a government of government affairs called McKinley Strategies, said that having A mountain named after McKinley “was still a pride for the region.”
“I saw a good reaction from people in this area,” says Stenger.
Who was William McKinley?
McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843. After having served in the 23rd voluntary infantry regiment of Ohio during the civil war, he became a lawyer, moved to Canton. And has become the lawyer for Stark County. At 34, he successfully ran for the American House of Representatives as a Republican. It was served for 14 years, reaching the president of the committee of the ways and means of the Chamber of Taxes.
In this post, he became an supporter of the prices, arguing that they were necessary to ensure high wages. He gave his name to a measure of 1890 which raised import prices on many goods, while dropping them into other areas. According to the economist at the University of Dartmouth, Doug Irwin. McKinley himself lost his seat of the House of Representatives in the 1990 elections, after his district was Gerrymanded by the Democrats to be unfavorable to the Republicans.
“Although the price is not entirely responsible for the republican electoral disaster, many observers at the time believed that it was the case,” wrote Irwin in his 2017 book, “Clashing over trade: A History of Us Trade Policy “.
McKinley rebounded to lose his siege at the Congress by successfully looking for the Governor of Ohio in 1891 with the help of the rich industrialist of Ohio Mark Hanna. During its governor service, the state tax system was improved; A law on rail security has been sanctioned; A Council of State of Arbitration has been established; And a strike by coal minors was treated, according to a biography of McKinley from the Association of National Governors.
What did he achieve?
With the help of Hanna, McKinley presented himself to the presidency in 1896, defeating William Jennings Bryan. According to a campaign report on the American Senate website, the “Front Porch” campaign McKinley ran from Canton “established a new standard in presidential policy”.
“While the Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan has traveled the country pronouncing speeches of the golden cross ”, William McKinley sat on his porch, welcoming voters trains who went to Ohio at the expense Hanna to meet the Republican candidate, “he said.
McKinley triumphed in industrial centers and major cities with 51% of the popular vote and 271 electoral votes for Bryan’s 176.
According to a biography of the historic association of the White House of McKinley, as soon as he became president, McKinley called the congress in special session to implement the highest rate in the history of the country. The price and other national problems during its first mandate were overshadowed by the Cuban revolt against Spain, which began in the early 1890s, and created millions of losses for American interests. McKinley was forced to intervene.
After February 15, 1898, the explosion of the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor, whose cause is still unknown, diplomatic negotiations failed and the Congress declared war in Spain in April. Following the 100-day Spanish-American war, the United States picked up Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines of Spain. The United States also annexed Hawaii during its presidency.
McKinley again faced Bryan in the 1900 elections. His opponent advocated a monetary policy in free money and spoke out against imperialism while McKinley was re-elected on his support for the Order and “The Full Dinner Pail ”. He died shortly after being killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, while he was standing on a reception line at the Pan -American exhibition in Buffalo. He was the third American president to be murdered.
The legislature of the Ohio state named the red carnation like the flower of the state after the death of McKinley, because it was known to carry the flowers in its reverse.
During the last speech he delivered in Buffalo, the day before his ball, McKinley called for abandoning prices that were no longer necessary, saying: “The period of exclusivity has passed.
“Reciprocity is the natural growth of our wonderful industrial development within the framework of domestic policy which is now firmly established,” said McKinley. “What we produce beyond our internal consumption must have a fan abroad. The surplus must be relieved by a foreign outlet and we must sell wherever we can, and buy wherever the purchase will extend our sales and our productions, and thus make a greater request for work at home. »»
Sabrina Eaton writes on the federal government and politics in Washington, DC, for Cleveland.com and the Plain dealer.
