Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-10-20

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100000 troops was promptly responded
to by the people of the United States
without respect to party or creed or Sec
ton or nationality.
The alacrity of enlistment and the
celebrity of execution has few if any
parallels in the military annals of the
world.
We did not get to work until every
effort at peace was exhausted and when
word came, we all thought the sooner it
was ended the better for all concerned.
I have come here tonight, travelling
long distances, that I might meet the
people of this new and growing state, a
state which / had the honor, as a men,
Der of the national house of representa-
tives to vote to admit as a state into the
national family.
From the crowd-'You are not ashan-
ed of it, are your"
"On the contrary, I am proud of the
state" continued the president amid the
widest cheers, land prouder than ever
for the vote l gave for her admission"
l came also to speak to the patriotism
of the state of North Dakota, not only
to the patriotism of the men who served
in the Philippines, but to the patriot
ism of those other brave soldiers of your
state, who less fortunate than the Man
lila volunteers, were not able to see fight
ing service in the field. They did duty
as you did yours, all the volunteers
throughout the United States, all of
them agreed to go to the front and do
battle with the enemy like you who have
won the lasting gratitude of the Ameri-
can people.
l come especially that 1 might look
into the faces of the North Dakota vol
unteers, the two battalions who saw SER
that l might speak to them, to welcome
and you filled my heart with joy when
eighth army corps sent me word as
president that you would remain on the
battle line in Luzon until l could create
a new army to take it's place.
You refused to beat retreat or strike
your colors in the presence of the enemy.
When the mother wanted you to come
home you said: ave will stay and keep
the flag stainless in the presence of the
enemy" and my fellow citizens, no SOL
diers of any army have had a more deli
cate or trying duty. This army, in
which the brave men from your state de-
parted, remained in Luzon and awaited
first, for the treaty of peace which was
being prepared in Paris, then waited for
its ratification by the senate of the
United States, and then waited until
the exchange of notifications between the
United States and Spain; waited through
all that long period, accepting the in
science of the insurgents with dignity,
because they were ordered by the execu-
tive of the nation that they must not
strike a blow until the treaty of peace
except in defense. I say they bore the
in%solence of the insurgents with a pa
tience sublime. We never dreamed that
the little body of insurgents whom we
had just emancipated from oppression, we
never for a moment believed that they
would turn upon the flag that had shell
tered them against Spain-our flag.
And so u soldier boys, they simply
bore the insolence of that little band of
insurgents, and then it was that the in
surgent leader ordered an attack upon
our forces.
l always thought the boys we're quite
ready for it. But I want to give them
the credit due them and say here, in the
presence of their neighbors and their
friends, their fathers and their mothers
that they forebore all things rather than
disobey an order from the government
that they were serving.
The leader of the insurgent forces said
to the American government: "You can
have peace if you will give us indepen-
dence." Peace for independence, he
says. He had another peace proposition
than that ice before, but the United
States pays no gold for peace. We have
never given a bride for peace in our his
tory, and we will not commence today.
Our flag is there. You left it, boys of
the North Dakota regiment; you left it
there in the hands ct those who took
your places, without blot and without
stain. And wherever that standard is
raised whether in the western or the
eastern hemisphere, it stands for liberty,
civilization and humanity.
But, my fellow citizens, I have already
talked too long. This nation, for nearly
a century has never comprised with
slavery, and Abraham Lincoln, God bless
his memory; he who was snatched from
the theatre of fame, became immortal in
the realm of kings. Abraham Lincoln
spoke the proclamation of liberty to all
men beneath our flag within the United
States, and at Appomatox court house
Grant put that paper proclamation into
a living fact, and our flag stands for
liberty wherever it floats.
And VIZ propose to put $1,000 men be-
hind that flag in Luzon to maintain the
authority of the United States and the
honor and glory of the republic in the
interest of civilization and humanity.
We accept the responsibility of duty at
whatever cost.
The constitution of the Transvaal re-
public has been frequently amended in
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