Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-10-26

aAo lOIt InHn
you consume. You SEND your snrpl,S
products from the field or uroductIon IN
the held CT consumption. and there
comes flowing back to Won in return
money for your labor and your invest
ment. We are interested in onr nnhIio
schools. in our colleges. and in onr mn
yersities.
Then we are interested in the, honor
OK the country. The American name
UP TO this hour has never had any faint
put upon It, and | trust and believe il
never viii have. We have never lacked
the soldiers TO defend any cause in
which the country has been engaged
from the days of 1776 down 10 the pres
ent hour.
Discusses Expansion.
The President then took I'm tho ex-
pansion issue, saying:
w have been adding some territory
to the United States. The little folks
will have TO get a new geography. We
have a good deal more territory in tho
United States than when we were boys
and We have been adding some within
the last eighteen months. We lave not
only been adding territory to the
United States, but we have been adding
character and prestige 10 the American
name.
I'VE have planted our flag In Porto
Rico, Hawaii and in the Philippines
We planted it there because we had a
right to plant it there. We had a war
with Spain, Every effort was made 10
avert it. l used every effort at peace
before was was finally declared by the
Congress of the United States. but
when war was declared there was but
one thing for the American People to
do, and that was to destroy the Spanish
sea power wherever we could find it,
and so we sent Dewey to Manila, and
we told him to go there, commence op-
erations, find the Spanish fleet, and
capture or destroy it. He did it. He
found and destroyed it, and when he
had done that, then we had the respon-
sibility OF the Philippines which we
could not evade.
and there has lever been a moment
OF time, my countrymen, when we could
have left Manila Bay or Manila harbor,
or the archipelago of the Philippines
without dishonor to our name. We did
not go there to conquer the Philippines.
We went there" to destroy the Spanish
fleet that we might end the war, but in
the providence of God, who works in
mysterious ways, this great archipel-
ago was put into u lap, and the
American people never shirk duty.
And the flag now there is not theflag
OF tyranny, it is the flag OF liberty, and
wherever the flag goes, character, edit
cation, American intelligence, Ameri-
can civilization and American liber-
ty CO."
What He Said at Huron.
At Huron the President said:
MY fellow Citizens: I bring my
heartfelt %salutation to this one IF the
younger sisters of our federal union.
You have made wonderful progress.
You have been enjoying in the last
twenty-four months an unexampled
prosperity. Good crops aud fair prices
have raised the mortgage and lowered
the interest; and while the interest has
been lowered to the borrower the stand
ard Of the money loaned has not been
lowered.
IL came here to make an acknowl-
edgemcnt to the people of this state fer
it's patriotism. When You were a terri
tory you furnished Lattalions of gallant
soldiers to fight in the great war for
the preservation of the Union, and my
comrades of the Grand Army of the
Republic are all about me here today.
"And when the Spanish wal CANE
the sons of these veterans and the sons
of these settlers sprang to arms at once
upon the call of country; and one regi-
| ment of your troops served most gal
lantly and uncomplainingly in the isl
and of Luzon. l had the extreme
pleasure OF joining in South Dakota's
welcome to these brave men. They look
like athletes, showing the generous
care of the government OF the United
States.
We Did Not Seek Them.
"It is given to the strong to bear the
burdens of the weak; and your prayer
should be-, not Rat the burdens should
be rolled away, but that God should
give us strength to e them. Ana the
so-called burdens which this war
placed upon the American people We're
unsought and unexpected, for nooody
in the United States dreamed eighteen
months ago that the Philippine archi-
pelago would become a part u the
United States.
1.-THE islands came not to us of gu
seeking, but as one Of the inevitable
and unacceptable results Of that war.
When Dewey went into Manila Bay un
| der orders and destroyed the Spanish
feet. from that hour we were response
bic for the peace of the Philippine ISL
ands. And from that hour VIC couid
not escape with honor to ourselves or
from obligations to the nations OF lne
world.
.Your boys staid, although there
were some people who wan-ed them 70
come home. | am proud OF them, ahd
so are you. There is not q man, ~om-
an. or child in this glorious state, there
is not a family in your commonwealth
h is not delighted that the boys o.
the First South Dakota refused 10 &C.
cept the advice of the inpatriotic' ana
staid and upheld the flag.
"They did not come nople until they
had placed that flag stainless and sfot-
less in the hands of the new army we
sent. and we will send enough OF them
10 carry that flag to ultimate Victory
Remarks at Lake Preston.