The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-25
TEDDY THE LION,


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need had passed he could prove that
war had not hurt him for the work
of peace, and that he was all the fit
ter to do this work for having done
the other, too. We may be called 20
war but once in a generation, and |
most earnestly hope that we shall not
have to face war again for many
years.
The duties of peace are always with
us, and these we must perform all our
lives long, from years end to wear $
end, if we are to prove ourselves in
very fact good citizens of the common
wealth. We must work hard for the
sake of those dependent upon us; we
must see that our children are brought
up in way that will make them W3r-
thy of the great inheritance which we,
their fathers, have ourselves received
from those that went before us. We
must do our duty by the state. We
must froWn upon dishonesty and cor
ruption, and war for honesty and
righteousness.
l am proud of you, my comrades, not
only because you were very brave IN
battle, but because when once the bat
tie was over, you showed yourself es
always merciful to the weak. A coward
in your ranks would have received
short shrift indeed, but when once the
battle was won, I never knew one of
you to perform an act of cruelty. l
shall ever keep in mind the valOr you
showed as you fought in the iung,es
of Las GuasimaS, as you charged up
the slopes of San Juan hills, and ] shall
keep in mind no less the way In which
you showed your sympathy for the
poor, miserable refugees at Ell Caney,
the way in which yoa tried to help the
women and children upon whom war
had laid its heavy hand. In our resi-
ment the men who f1inched from armed
foe and the man who murdered women
and children, would have met with
equally quick and grim justice.
Let me say a word of those to whom
our thoughts turn at such a time, both
among the living and among the dead,
to our absent living comrades, and es-
pecially to our former commander,
now Major General Leonard Wood,
whose administration of the province
of Santiago has reflected the utmost
credit not merely upon himself, but up
on the nation so fortunate to have him
in her service. We send to them the
heartiest and most loyal greeting. With
these men we hope in the no distant
future to strike hands again, and as
long as we live and they live we shall
all be bound together by most indis-
soluble ties.
But when we come to speak of our
dead comrades, of the men who gave
their lives in the fierce rush of the
jungle fighting, or who wasted to death
in the fever camps, we can only stand
Wit hot
may so live as at the end to die as
worthily as these our brothers died
Allan Capron, in the sunny prime Of
youth, il his courage, his Strength and
his beauty; "Bucky" O'Neil. than
whom in all the army there breathed
no more dauntlesS Soul-Of these and
other gallant comrades, the men who
carried the rifles in the ranks, all we
can say is that they proved their truth
by their endeavOr that in the hour of
our greatest need these rose level to
the need and CALAMITY and cheerfully
gave to their country the utmost that
any man can give-their lives for we
read in the Holy Writ that greater
love hath no man than this, to lay
down his life for a friend And these
men so loved their country that they
calamity gave their lives for her honor
and renOWn and for the uplifting of
the human race. Now their work is
over, their eye9 are closed for ever
their bodies moulder in the dust but
the spirit that was in them cannot die
and it shall live for time everlasting.
So much for our comrades of the
regiment. Let us not forget our com
rades who this summer are facing all
that we faced last summer Let US not
forget the gallant men, the regulars
and volunteers who are UNFOLDING the
honor of the flag and the interests of
the nation in the Philippines Surely
there is not one of us whose veins have
not tingled with pride as he read of
the gallantry Of those men; and l sup
pose few of us have not thought at
times that we should like ourselves to
fight beside LaWtOn as We fought be
side him last July, and to sse if the
Rough Riders could not do their share
of the work with the splendid men who
followed Funston, Hale and other dar-
ing leaders, who, during the past six
months, nave added so many new pages
to the honor roll of American history
To our shame be ii said. there are
men in this nation so Indifferent to the
country's honor SO lukeWarm in patri-
0tlSm and courage that they would LET
all the work Of these men go for naught
- let their blood be spilled in vain
But the hour of our battle is sounded
and the puny folk who deem it other
wise are woefully mistaken in their
countrymen.
Where our flag has been raised if
shall not be hauled down. If anv din
Guilty seems greater than We expected !
1t merely means that We shall expact q /
little more strength in overcoming il |
| read with pride the other dav how
both senators from California those If |
opposite political parties Joined in as
surfing the president that California /
would stand like a rock behind hin, ia
seeing that there was no step-back i'm |
the Philippines, and so | can assu,a
him of the like spirit from the grsar
state or winch have the honor to he
the governor
West and east are ready to give him
whatever he needs i'm men or none,
to put down the savagerv to which ~
are opposed in the Philippines W.
want no peace talk with men who hear
arms IN thelr hands When once they
submit they shall be treated with alb |
solute justice and equity and their
rights most carefully guarded. but nm
til they submit they must be taught
with rough hands what it is 70 mali
war on the American flag.
There IS no east and no west WHOM
We come to deal with questions Of tbie
kind. The United States is to no H.
great power of the Pacific. and we men
of the Atlantic coast are good v-as.a,.,,
ers and are as resoluteIy bent unon nm.
building our power in the Pacific rs
the men on the Pacific slope them
selves.
We are a great nation. We must
show ourselves great not only i'm tba
ways Of peace, but in that prepared
ness for war which best insuras peaca |
We must u0build our navv and army.
until they CONFESSIONAL To IL. -. --I-E