The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-14
PRESIDENT In IOWA
CHIEF EXECUTIVE EVERYWHERE
GREETED BY CROWDS OF
CURIOUS
THE WAR FOUGHT OVER
President Mckinley Confines His
ShOrt-StOp Speeches to COngratu-
IatiOns on the Splendid Outcome
of the Conflict with Spain-St.
Louis Delegation Accompanies
the Presidential Party.

RED OAK, To-, Oct 19.-On a special
car attached to the Burlington flyer"
q committee Of st. Louis business men
jOurneyed across Iowa with the presi
dental party. Among them were John
G. Wilkinson and Richard G. Kerens.
The committee was appointed by the
Business Mems League Of st. Louis to
accompany the president to their city.
United States Senator Gear also made
the trip through Iowa. At GlenwOod,
where a great crowd had congregated,
the president assembled a gaily deco
rated platform, near the station. and
said:
My fellow citizens, l am very glad to meet
and greet you here this morning. l ned not
say that l like the flag which you carry.
whenever you put that flag in the hands Of
the boys and girls, you put patriotism in
their hearts. There are two strong and
marked phases in the with Spain. The
one is its heroism, and the other its humanity.
The individual valOr of the soldier ard sailor
has never been surpassed. Both at Manila
and Santiago. with Deweys fleet and Samp-
sons squadron there were distinguishing eX-
hibitiOns of personal valor and intrepidity
which thrilled all of cur hearts So with The
land forces Al San Juan hill and Ell Caney,
and at Manila, so with the marines at Guam
tanamO. This is the heroic side. The other
is the humanitarian side. The first ship to
enter the harbOT of Santiago after its sur
render Of the Spanish forces and army to
zen. Smarter was a snip ladGn with IOCQ anu
provisions and medicines, carrying the Red
Cross to the suffering inhabitants of that
land. And so all through the war we have
mingled with our heroism our splendid and
glorious humanity. There was no malice in
our conflict there was no bitterness or re-
sentiment connected with It, and when it was
all over we treated our foe as generously as
we could have treated a friend. All this must
be inspiring to the American people. We are
a great people. We love peace, not war, but
when We go to war. We send to it the best
and bravest of the country and Iowa in this
war, as in the great Civil war, contributed
her share OF patriotic boys 10 fight the battles
OF our country. | thank you all and bid you
coed morning" Great applause.)
At Malvern the president greeted a
large crowd and said:
My fellow citizens, in the moment that 1
shall be permitted to stop with you, l only de-
sire to thank you for the cordial reception
you have given me this morning. l cannot
but recall as | journey through the country
the difference between conditions now and
those of thirty-seyen years ago. Then we
were at war with each other, section OF
beloved country fighting against the
ether; then the contest was for the preserva-
happily triumphed. Thirty-geven years later,
we are engaged in another war, not as a d.
vided country but as a united country, North
and South vieing with each other in self
sacrificing devotion to tie country and the
flag, and united, my fellow countrymen, we
are invinclble, and having stood together
against a foreign fOe, We must stand together
until every settlement of that war shall be
finally embodied in a public treaty