Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-07

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deafening applause. Captain Hill was
called upon to respond to the toast Our
Returned Brothers" He said:
Il cannot begin to tell you how glad
I am to be with you and see you al
again. 1t is so good to be among my
own people once more. Time would
fail me to enumerate all the good turns
and kinds acts l owe to the English-Am-
orleans and particularly to the Sons OF
ST. George, and 1 wish to return hearty
thanks for past faVorS as well as for the
present kindness of this reception.
almost all present are foreign born
though an Englishman scarcely seems a
foreigner in America and l know you all
feel much as I do and so l shall not be
misunderstood when l say that the pre-
dominant feeling with which + return to
the United States is pride in my Ameri-
can citizenship: I never was so proud
of my country as l am now. 1t IS very
gratifying to me that this reception is
or we have done as Englishmen. but
because we have tried to do our duty as
Americans. BY the accident of birth
We are English, and let me say, by the
way, I for one have no regrets or no apol-
ogies to offer On that score. No true
mar is ashamed Of the land of his birth
and old England is a country that any
one might be proud of: By an accident
we are English. but of our own Nolition
we are A~mericans-tr1t is something we
have achieved ourselves. and SO have the
more reason to glory in 1t. III more
we think of our co~untry-our adopted
Countrywide more we see to wonder at
and admire. What other nation could
have lone What America has done in the
last year and a half? She was totally
unprepared for war, but she equipped
an army of a quarter million men IN three
months, and such men-never were any
better soldiers. | am very proud to have
served with them. 1t is the Anglo Saxon
on. rather Tpl1tOnir 2Dirjt in them that
makes them such good soldiers. We had
in our regiment men from almost every
country in Europe, and they did their
full duty, chiefly, | think, because they
had absorbed the American spirit of in
d~ividuality. Again l thank you for the
mark of you esteem expressed in this
splendid reception, ana 1 want to say
that 1 am proud to have been a m
of the Eighth army corps and of General
Kessler's regiment
Three cheers We're then given for Cen
| eral Kessler.
Sergeant Soper was also called on for
a speech. He excused himself, aging
that he was not an orator, but thanked
his fellow citizens most cordially for the
: reception rendered himself and comrades.
Private w. j. Boast was introduced as
the man h had entered the battle of
Caloocan with the stars and stripes
wrapped around his body and also as
the man who had captured AGA soldiers
in battles and whose dead bodies were
afterwards strewn along the fields.
In response. Mr.. Boast said that the
POSTMASTER had got things mixed up in
calling on him for a speech. He had gone
to the Philippines as a private whose duty
it was to obey orders from his suOeriofs
and of course he would say something.
He was glad to be with his friends once
more, and thankful for the reception ex-
tended by the Sons of ST. George. He
was proud that he had been IA member
of the Eighth army corps and the First
Montana and had no hesitation in saying
that with such officers as General kess-
Ter and Captain Hill he believed the Mon
tana regiment could have swept the
islands themselves. The senl-off given
him by the postmaster had made him
bashful, and as he could not talk any
more he would content himself by again
returning thanks.
The Peace and Harmony Glee club
then sang a chorus. "The English An
them that was beautifully rendered.
ENGLAND and America was the next
toast and in proposing it the POSTMASTER,
among other things, said the Two coun,
tries were one in language, thought and
destiny, and no power in heaven. on earth
or in hell could keep them apart.
William Rartle responded to the toast
"Ergland and America" He said:
"For the first time in the history or
this building do we sea the EnSisn ana
American flags entwined. To those VIVA
listen to the average Fourth of July ora
| lions this may seem strange. ] say 10
such as those this unity of coiors may
annaar a. very daring thing on our part;
Int to those who believe in the progress
sion and freedom of the two nations,
nothing could be more pleasing than TO
see the two grand banners entWlned, FOR
such a unity means a WorId.Wlae Nlc-
tory too broad to be Compensated IN
IT'S full meaning by the narroW-lnlnued
man. For wears England and America
have misunderstood each other. ana IN
this country at least there has been a
feeling of distrust against the motnef
cOntry, which no one could m!s'lke.
Many reasons have been gwen Tor !his
nnfriandly feeling. One of the most mn
nortant IS the study of historical works,
such as are placed IN the hands Oh our
children. and these are largely RESPONSE
HE for the prejudice which exists IN the
minds of the young and ~uneducated
reader.
"Rut let us leave the past and consider
tho pres,ent. No other two nations IN me
world have so much in common as Eng
land and The United States. We speak
The same language, ave the same re-
ligious views, and enjoy reading the same
classics. and never stop Tor a lneneht
to INQUIRE if the writer was born III f'h5-
,an1 or the United States. Shakespeare
i, the Shakespeare of England ana
America. RurNan speaks To potii PEG
n1es alike. The gospel of the Son OF Man
preached by Wesley has penetrated ,ns
life and souls of the people on both sld's
of the great ocean. And today Tenny'
son. Longfellow and Kipling are as popu-
lay on one side of the Atlantic as TN
other. and the names of Washington