The Advocate and news., 1898-05-18
Volunteers
HOnOred.
kansams Celebrate DeWey'S Victory
and Bid Volunteer Soldiers
0Odspeed.
RE0IMENTAL COLORs GIVEN.

south entrance Of the State capitol the
volunteers we're marched In from the
west side and massed in front OF the
Steps. The south steps were reserved for
the State officers and their families, the
ladies' Of the WOmen's Relief Corps and
their guests and the regImental officers.
The program began by the singing OF
America" led by the MOdOC club. This
Was followed by a brief introduction Of
Governor Leedy by Major ]. X. Hudson.
Mr.. Leedy said:
Soldiers Of Kansas: The people OF
this State have assembled here to-day to
do you honor and to bid you GOdspeed.
You are going forth to do battle in a
righteous cause. The United States, by
tradition and by preference, do not med
die with the affairs of foreign nations
and for that reason they have not inter
fered for the last three years In the af-
fairs of Cuba. They have stood by with
horror and witnessed the atrocities Of the
Spanish, who have OutdOne the savage,
even, in their crimes (Cheers) The
savages will torture a man, but they
will not stand by and see his torture;
but when the Spanish government con-
nlVed at the blowing up OF one OF our
ships that was visiting there as a vessel
OF a friendly nation, they struck us a
blow that could not be avenged In any
other way but by war. (Cheers.) We
have taken up arms to aVenge wrong
that could not be cOndOned.
Il do not to-day Intend to speak to you
at length upon that question. The crowd
Is too large; could not make you hear.
But want to speak to you briefly about
another side Of this question, that, 80 far
as / know, has not been touched upon.
AS | have said, we have gone into the
war, not to aggrandize our honorable
glory, not for military pride; but we have
gone to war to aVenge our wrongs; but
low that we have been forced into this
position, 1t becomes us to look upon all
sides OF this question. We are going to
incur a national military expense that
must be borne by our people, and great
many citizens have hesttated have stood
back because OF this matter. | want to
say to you that while nothing, perhaps,
can repay us for the precious blood OF
our citizens that will be shed, yet, so far
al money Is concerned, so far as dollars
and cents go, / want to say to you that
feel that this will be n great national
benefit. want to call your attention to
a fact, one that / think public people
ought to consider. While we have to bear
the expense OF this war, while we have
to contemplate the loss OF life, we want
to look and see what we can find on the
other side that might go some way to-
wards counterbalancng this On the
south Of us, in this Spanish country, are
5l,OO0,OOO Of people, who, by our trade
relations and by our lack OF infOrma-
ton and by our not having knowledge
Of their language, have been exactly as
II they lived on the other part of the
globe. We have no commercial rela-
tiCns with them, but l believe that the
army of the United States, going into
that country and learning the language
and learning the habits Of the people,
will bring about a revolution In the COM
merCial relations OF the United States.
At the present time these 100000 900 peO-
pie have no manufactures OF their own.
They ship their coffee, sugar, rubber and
tropical goods to Europe and trade them
fGl manufactured goods; and then we,
the people OF the United States OF Amer
ica, turn around and buy from Europe
and pay in gold for these very things
while our manufactures stand idle and
our laborers ask for work feel that the
outcome Of this war shall be that we
shall have new commercial relations.
believe that the whole trade OF South
America, Central America and Mexico
will be turned toward the United States.
II believe that when this war is over
the men who have gone down there and
learned the customs of the people will
take advantage and will turn around in
the United States, or, rather, they will
bring to us 5O,0OO,00O OF customers They
will put us in a battle where we can
reCoup ourselves ten times over for the
money losses that this war will cause
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