The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-16
THE STARS AND STRIPES
IN THE PHILIPPINES TO STAY
The President Outlines His Foreign Policy at the Peace
Jubilee at Atlanta-.A Ringing Tribute to
the Patriotism of the South

thinks he knows who wrote 1t. Coming
right down to the facts, II was proba-
bly, written by some clerk in his de-
partment. but anyway 1t was sent, and
You all know the rest
General Shafter was heartily cheered
when introduced by Howell. He re-
sponded to the toast. THE Army" He
said:
TOO glowing a tribute cannot be paid
to the noble little army which contrib
uted so freely the lives Of its best men.
to bring about this happy issue. The
bulk and the flower of our regular
army composed the Santiago eXpedi-
tion. Words cannot graphically depict
the obstacles overcome: the suffering
endured and the hardships undergone.
If you could have seen as l have OIL
GERS and men alike pushing from day
To day on 20 Santiaeo through tropical
jungles. under a tropical sun. wet with
tropical rains. exposed to unknown dis
eases, and only the coarsest fare to eat,
YOU will agree with me that that typi-
cal soldier is the American regular. All
this he bore uncomplainingly-it was
his duty; no questioning, no faltering,
and this II Is that bore him on to vic
tory. Such is the soldier of the Ameri-
can army of to-day. He is entitled to
all the love and gratitude that a great
and generous nation can bestow upon
him.
Hon. George w. Peck of Chicago was
believed to be the Northern speaker Of
the evening, and rising to respond tn
the toast. The New Union,' was
loudly applauded.
The New Union.
The Hon. George II. Peck OF Chicago
responded to the toast, The New
Union" He said:
Gtr land Wit
Messing this brilliant festival, might
well inquire: Do you celebrate victory
or peace? The prompt, emphatic an
ewer would he-both. one pre-
ceded the other but lit
tie. as the flush of dawn her,
aids the full brightness of the day: but
both are ours, and nobly won. In all
these joyous observances. we are un-
der an influence which is not near ex-
ultation, but what Matthew Arnold
might have called a sweet reasonable
ness. The nation. looking into it's own
heart, weighing its own motives, sub
iecting Itself to a rigorous introspec-
tion, is content. The task 1t assumed
when the year was young has been
finished, though the year is not yet
ended. Why should we not rejoice?
Human nature must needs have SOME
channel In which it's currents may flow.
Here we bring memories and hopes:
led us through the summer days; and
here a new nation finds a fitting
shrine. This is Atlanta. that fated
citadel which once guarded the gate
way OF the South: Atlanta, the mar
velous child of faith and enterprise,
reading with clear eyes the destiny that
waits on opportunity; Atlanta. the ex-
pectancy and rose of the fair state
To you. war is something more than
an artists sketch. Its argument has
held you i'm its grasp; it's sorrows have
! entered your hearts and homes and
| left them desolate. Yonder is Peach
| tree. where Hood. great in misfortune
| and superb in defeat, led his heroic
/ columns, like another Ncy. i'm an on
| set which was the more glorious be-
! cause IL was homeless. Yonder once
| grew the oaks and pines. under whose
sheltering branches Mcpherson fell. our
| best-beloved. cur Lycidas dead ere his
| prime Verify, we are on historic
| ground. Here our annals grow tired of
| common things and touch the highest
| themes They make classic not simply
that which is venerable. but those high
| est of human attributes-courage, con-
stancy and faith. Here we know. for a
| certainty. that power beyond our
| controlling. and insistence outside of
our own little plains, have made us
| one.
| A Southern Message.
II am the less reluctant to speak of
| these things. because ! know you give
| back thought for thought. greeting for
greeting, and heart for heart. Not long
| ago, at the great jubilee In Chicago.
| two distinguished citizens OF Georgia
| brought us messages that will not be
| forgotten. Listening to the eloquent
words of Judge Speer and Clark How
/ ell. we felt as we had never felt before,
| that American patriotism Is. and must
ever he, national. They made US know
] that IL Is not an idle sentiment. hut a
pervasive force, which is. in Shake
speare's exquisite phrase, as broad and
! generll as the casing air.. II was my
fortune to be born i'm a hsrsher CLINE
than this, where ice and snow are year
| ly guests. often outstaying their wei.
come. But. gentlemen. the North Star
is not so cold as some have thought
and its unchanging light, from the days
OF Ulysses, has guided mariners
! through perilous seas to sweet hom,
! ports. There are legends and sag n
that tell how. centuries ago. the Morse.
men sailed on voyages 20 the Atlantic
western rim. We. who are OF New Eng
land origin. are. perhaps. of kin u
them, for in our veins the dominan
blood flows from the north. And yet
do not think il counts for mucl
whether we are Norman or Saxon o
Dane. The United States has lit:l
need OF ancestry; Il -, In the highes
sense. its own progenitor. and its owl
sufficient reason.
IF we sing the same battle hymns
and. by the fireside recite the SAM
ballads, the question OF lineage need TO
trouble US. Have YOU not read hoy
Englishmen fought against each othe
for red roses and white: and again, nov
some stood for the king and some 20
the parliament. but when they locke
back through battle rnists to the day
Of old. they all eaw-Agincourt?
So, too, there was a time when som
who are here tonight did not low
each other overmuch: and yet. whe
the stress was fiercest and the fire
seemed ready TO consume. neither sid
gave up fits memory OF lexington an
Yorktown. Tradition. language. litera
ture. common hopes and common inter
ests make a nation. and these are
| thousand times stronger than Ia