Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-10-15
TRIBUTE TO GERMANS.
Made BY nsjor Mckinley In His Address 70
the 0erman.Americans.

My fellow citizens-It Is with pecu-
liar pleasure and satisfaction that
l welcome this representative body
of German-American citizens of the
city of Cleveland and of northern
Ohio to the city of Canton and my
own home. l appreciate most
heartily your call, which as a COM
pliment to myself prize very highly.
but more than all, l value it as a
significant expression of your inter
est and zeal in the great campaign
upon which we have entered. ZAP
plause) The citizens of the United
States have learned not only to re-
spect but to depend upon the Ger
mans as a great and potent influence
i'm our civilization-safe and steady
in every emergency and patriotic in
every crises; Great applause.)
Loving your mother country as you
do so affectionally, does not mean
that you love your adopted country
less, but that you have hearts big
enough for love of both. (Applause
CEIcS vi uoou, SOou.
planted i'm the free soil of Amer
lea, German characteristics have
strengthened our institutions and
exercised both a salutary and wise
influence i'm our progress as a nation.
Love of fatherland, that deep and
noble sentiment which has ever dis
tinguished you means To our Ger
man citizens always love of America
and free institutions, and absolute
and unqualified devotion to every
true American interest Great ap-
plause.) Respect for law and order
and faithful obedience to the consti-
tuted authority have been distin-
guished traits of the German on
both sides of the Atlantic, while
hatred of wrong and oppression has
called him to arms as quickly from
his farm on our western prairies as
from his ancestral vineyard on the
Rhine. Historians have recorded in
all it's greatness the strength and
service of that gallant German
American army which rallied to the
standard of liberty and union at the
call of Lincoln, and enrolled in it's
splendid history the inperishable
name of thousands who SD nobly
suffered and died for their imperiled
country. Great cheering.) But no
| SUCH IL lss
can do full justice to the services OF
those brave men, nor can it estimate
at it's true value their firm support
| of the union in it's moral effect upon
all people. (Applause.l Proudly
can those German-American soldiers
point to their deeds of valor and suf,
fering in that great war. Conf
IDENTIFY can they claim that they
brought no shame upon the German
name and bore themselve upon a
hundred fields in America as well at
did the soldiers of Frederick and
Blucher of the old wars and Won
Moltke In the greatest European
war of recent years. (Great cheer
ing.) The government appreciated
their splendid service. When the
news of the fall Of Richmond reached
Washington, the people assembled
in large numbers at the residence o
Mr.. Seward, the then secretary o
Estate. Responding to their call fol
q speech, the premier said among
lOther things: II am now about
writing my foreign dispatches
What shall l tell the king of Prussia?'
He answered his own question will
this glowing tribute to our German
fellow-citizens: II will tell him tha
the Germans have been as faithful tt
/ the standard Oh Cne union as Ills eX
lcellent minister, Baron GerOit, hai
been constant in his friendship to tn
United States" tremendous ap
plause.) My fellow citizens, bette
or more faithful soldiers never mas
tered under any flag, fighting TO
any cause, than those willing ant
STEADY German-American volunteers
(Great cheering and cries of 'Hurral
IfOr McKinley.") The troops VIII,
fought under Willich and Siegel
Kauntz and Austerhaus, Schurz
Hartranft, Weitzel and Heintzelmal
were the equals of their trained kins
men of the imperial armies of Ger
many (Renewed cheering.) You viii
remember that old Gen. Willich use,
to boast laughingly-"Give me tw,
brigades of my cOrn-fed western GEL
mans and L will land them on tn
north coast and take the empire
tremendous applause and laughter.
General Sheridan declared, too, afte
visiting Europe, where he studie'
the movements of the Franco-Prus
sian war, that he saw no troop
that excelled our own, either of tn
western or eastern armies; and Abra
ham Lincoln proclaimed over an
lover again that the Germans wer
true, patriotic and truthful to tn
flag OF our country. (Great cheer
ing.) But my fellow citizens, 1t Ia G