The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-14
REGARDLESS
OF EXPENSE.
The President Again Declares
That the Flag
Shall Stay In the Philippines,
Cost What 1t May.
TELLS DAKOTA MEN
That He VIII Send an Army OF
10000
To Uphold Old Glory Where
They Planted It.
TELLS DAKOTA MI

Fargo, N. d, Oct. 14-Over 10000 peo-
pie greeted President Mckinley and his
party when they arrived here last night
at 7:35. Entering carriages the party
was driven to a reviewing stand
through a line of the First North Da-
kota volunteers, who recently returned
from the Philippines. The President
was received with wild demonstrations
In his address he referred repeatedly
to the situation in the Philippines.
When he declared the United States
government would send $4,000 men to
the Philippines to uphold the American
flag, where the volunteers had planted
it, the crowd approved the declaration
with applauge
The president said in part:
''I have come here especially that I
might look into the faces Of the North
Dakota volunteers who saw service IN
the battle line in LuzOn. You did your
duty and you filed my heart with joy
when, with other volunteers and regu-
lars, you sent me word that you would
not quit the battle line in Luzon until
I could create a new army and send 1t
there. You refused to beat retreat
or strike your colOrs in the presence of
the enemy. No matter who wanted you
to go home, you said: we viii stay
and keep the flag stainless in the pres
ence of the enemy No soldiers OF any
country ever had any more delicate or
trying duty. This army, of which this
fragment from your state formed a
part. remained in LuzOn, waiting first
for the treaty of peace, which was be-
ing prepared in Paris, then for its rati-
fcatfon by the Senate OF the United
State-then until the change or ratlnca-
tions between the United States and
Spain-waiting all through that long
period, accepting the insolence OF the
insurgents with dignity because they
were ordered by the executive of the
nation not to strike a, blow pending the
treaty of peace, except in defense They
accepted, therefore, the insolence OF
the insurgents with a patience that was
sublime. We never had dreamed that
the little body of insurgents whom we
had Just emancipated from Spain would
turn upon the flag that had delivered
them. Then it was that the insurgent
leader began an attack upon our men
and then our boys let loose But L al
ways thought the boys were quite ready
for it. (Applause)
ing here in the presence of their neigh
bors and friends, their fathers and
mothers, that these boys fOrbOre all
things rather than diSObey the order
of the government they were serving.
'sThe leader of the insurgent forces
says to the American government: Y on
can have peace if you will give US in
dependence Peace for Independence,
he says He had another price than
that for peace once before, but the I'm
tied States pays no gold for peace. We
never gave a DTlDe IOE peace III dlA Jul
history, and we never will (Applause.)
Our flag is there where you left it, you
boys of the North Dakota volunteers.
You left it there in the hands of those
who took your places, without blot and
without stain. And where ever that
standard is raised, whether in the west
ern or eastern hemisphere, it stands
for liberty, civilization and humanity.
Our flag stands for liberty where ever
it floats. And we propose to put $4,000
men behind that flag in Luzon to main
tain the authority of the United States
and the honor and glory of the republic
in the interest of civilization and hu-
manity. We accept the responsibility
of duty at whatever cost"
Attorney General Griggs, Secretary
Long, Secretary Gage, Secretary Hitch
cock, and Secretary Wilson, and Sena-
tors Hansbrough and McCumber spoke
briefly. The exercises were limited to
speaking and the review of the First
North Dakota volunteers, owing to the
lateness of the train.
At $3.50 o'clock the presidential train
was transferred from the Northern Pa
cific to the line of the Chicago, Mil
Waukee 6, st. Paul railway and depart
cd for Aberdeen 8. D.