The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-10-26
to carry that flag to ultinae victory"
Remarks at Lake Preston.

| AT Lake preston PreSluent MCkiniFy |
said
| Patriotism is an all conquelng SEN
| timent in the American heart. Patriot
ism triumphs over mere politics, and
the politics that has no patriotism in it |
is always defeated before the tribunal |
of the American people. II the patrio. |
| for any good reason does not 20 to war |
h mself he always supports the soldier |
who does and shelters and cares for his |
| family while the head of t is al the !
front. IT, for any reason, a good citi- |
! zen gets into the ranks of the enemy by |
any accident, he lives only - regret il |
and his children live only 70 erase the |
blot from the family name.
The patriotic people OF this county |
are awaiting the return of Company e /
of the First South Dakota. | saw The |
glorious boys today myself. 1 was !
proud of them and you will be proud |
of them when they come to you TO-
night. They did splendid service Tor
tier country. They unfalterlngly sus-
tanned the flag and refused t, come
home, refused 10 lay down their arms
until the government they were serv-
ing could supply new army in their ,
places to lift up and carry forward that
sacred banner
He Spoke at Madison.
At Madison, S. d., several thousand
farmers and inhabitants gathered to
greet President Mckinley He said:
Il feel like congratulating you on the
general prosperous condition of the
country. Your government as govern
ment, is doing we'll There are no def
icits in the treasury. There is a good
round balance of more than $256, 000,-
coo of gold in the treasury belonging to
the government, and We are collecting
81 900, 900 every working day of the
month. Last year, when congress vo-
ted that we should go to war, we Dor
rowed S200,0c0,000. We offered the
bonds of the government to the people
and there were fourteen hundred mil
lion dollars subscribed when there
were only 500, 100000 needed
mot only, my fellow citizens, is the
business of the government prosperous
but the enterprises of the people are
also prosperous. Fear has given place
to confidence CONSERVATION and de-
spair have given place to faith and
courage and the voice of calamity is
no longer heard in the land. and the or
ator OF distress and discomfort is out OF
job.
"The people are employed and are
happy. They are proud of their institu-
lions and the exhibition OF the love for
country displayed in the last eighteen
r..onths.
When the call for zoe, 900 troops was
issued there were more than million
and half Of men offered, eager and
ready to 60 to fight the battles for hu-
mainly and maintain the public honor.
and some of your boys are coming
back here tonight. 1t is like apologize
ing to the fathers and mothers for the
privilege which l enjoyed OF seeing
them first. The proudcst, the most
cherished, the most glorious reflection
they have is that they did not come un-
til the government of the United States
had supplied their places with new
troops.
The Egan Ovation.
At Egan, S. D., 70 school children and
citizens, President Mckinley said
I'VE, as people, never so to war
because we love war. Our chief glory
, is not in the triumph Of arms, but the
triunphs of peace. We love peace, we
abhor war. We have the smallest
standing army of any considerable ma
ton of the world. With a population
of more than seventy-six millions, the
regular army of the United States on a
peace footing, consists of $1,000 troops.
On the national shield which these boys
and girls know all about are to be
found the olive branch and the arrows
indicating our power in war and in
peace; but be 1t said to the glory of the
American nation that we never have
driven the arrows from their culver un-
l Ar IN Aun arr
the olive branch of peace.
"And we are ut peace row with all
the nations OF the world. We have a
little instruction in the Philippines,
which. trust, will be promptly sup
pressed"
His Sioux Falls Address.
At Sioux Falls the president spoke
to about 5000 people as follows:
Fellow Citizens: We very deeply
regret that we were not able to reach
this city at the appointed time. The
reason Is. in the fact that the South
Dakota volunteers came in late at
Aberdeen, and it is the only time in
the history of that regiment that 1t
was ever late Great cheering). 1t
was never behind time in any ope Of
the more than thirty engagements
which ii had in the island of Luzon.
More cheering).
my fellow citizens, When war is in
augurated, those who inaugurate US
ually have fixed and definite purpose
You can have purpose at the begin
ming, but nobody can tell the end OF
war. Man proposes; God disposes.
The civil war was waged for the pur-
pose or restoring the union. There
was no thought 10 the mind of Mr.
Lncoln or his cabinet, or OF congress
what would be the final result Of the
great civil struggle. Mr.. Lincoln was
in the habit of saying that he would
save the union with slavery or he
would save it without slavery. He
could not save 1t with slavery, so he
issued his immortal proclamation of