The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25

briliiancy. no material prosperity, can ever
atone. IT Is a good thing for a nation TO be
rich: but IL is a better thing for a nation 10
be the mother of men who possess the quail
ties OF honesty, of courage and OF common
sense We have many great problems
ahead Of as. we Americans. as We stride
along the road of national greatness-prob-
lens Of hom : administration and problems
mat anect our dealings with the outside
world We cannot solve them IL We APP
proach them In a spirit OF levtty or vain
glorious boastfulness; still less IL we ap-
proach them In a spirit OF timidity; and
least OF all II In dealing with them we do not
insist upon honesty and righteousness-upon
that righteousness OF character which Is the
keystone in the arch OF true national great
ness The problems that rise from year to
year differ widely and must be met in
widely different ways: but not one of them
can be properly solved unless we approach
IL with q resolute fearlessness and with
sincere purpose TO do justice to all men.
exacfing II from others. and exacting it no
less from ourselves.
Il am proud Of the way in which YOU have
taken up the broken threads of your lives
In which you have gone back to the farm,
the ranch, the mine, the factory and the
counting room. In so doing you show your
selves 10 be typical American citizens, for
II has always been the pride of our country
that an American while most earnestly de-
stroes of peace was ever ready to show
himself a hard and dangerous fighter IL need
should arise. and that on the other hand,
NA1C't OHCC II nEc1 lac passed., ne COulQ
prove that war had not hurt him for the
work OF peace, and that he was all the
litter to do this work for having done the
once in a generation land / most earnestly
hope that we shall not have to face war
S Searn a1r many yesr airs but the duties of
NUT perform all our lives long, from years
end TO years end. If we are to prove our
selves In very fact good citizens of the COM
m0nwealth. We must work hard for the
sake of those dependent upon us: We must
see hat our children are brought up I'm the
way that will make them worthy Of the
great Inheritance which We, their fathers.
nave ourselves received from those that
went before US. We must do our duty by
the state. We must frOWn upon dishonesty
and corruption. and war for honesty and
righteousness.
NO EDWARDS AMONG THEM.
II am proud of you, my comrades, not
only because you were very brave in battle,
but because when once the battle was over
you showed yourselves mercifuI to the
weak. A coward in your ranks would have
received short shrift indeed, but when once
the battle was won / never knew one of
you to perform an act OF cruelty. / shall
ever keep In mind the valor you showed as
you fought in the jungles of Las Guasimas.
as you charged up the slopes of San Juan
hill; and / shall keep I'm mind no less the
way In which you shared your scanty ra-
tons with the miserable refugees at FL
Caney, the way in which you tried to help
the women and children upon whom war
mad laid Its heavy hand. In our regiment
the man who fiinched from an armed foe
and the man who wronged a woman or a
child would have met with equally quick
Let me say a word of those to whom
our thoughts should turn at such a time,
both among the living and among the dead.
To our absent living comrades, and especial
ly TO our former commander, now Mai.
Cen Leonard Wood. whose administration
or the province OF Santiago has reflected
such high credit not merely upon himself
but upon the Nation so fortunate as to have
him In her service, We send the heartiest
and most loyal greetings With these men
We hope in the not distant future TO strike
hands again. and as long as We live and
the most indissoluble Of ties. But when we
come 10 speak OF our dead comrades, OF the
men who gave their lives in the fierce rush
or the jungle lighting, or who wasted to
death In the fever camps. We can only stand
with barred heads and pray that We may so
I've iSsse as n, at b s5s end d to die Ai Is WSe s1 T a s5
his strength and his beauty; Bucky
OsHeiH, than whom in all the army there
breathed nc more dauntless sOul-of these
and our other gallant comrades, the men
who carried the rifles in the ranks. all we
can say Is that they proved their worth by
their endeavor; that in the hour of the Ma
tionfs need they rose level to the need and
quietly and cheerfully gave TO their country
lives. We read in Holy Writ that greater
love hath no man than this, TO lay down
lis life for his friend And these men so
loved their country thatthey calamity gave
their lives for her honor and renown and
for the uplifting of the human race: Now
ever, their bodies molder in the dust. but
the spirit that was I'm them cannot die and
Il shall live for time everlasting.
THE PHILIPPINES.
$50 nnch for our comrades OF the regi-
menf. Let us not forget our comrades 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 in
terests 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 / suppose
few of US have not thought at times that
we should like ourselves TO fight beside
Lawton now as we fought beside him last
July. and 10 see IL the Rough Riders could
not do their share of the work now done
by the splendid men who follow Funston.
Hale and the other daring leaders who.
many new pages to the honor roll of Amer
lean history. To our shame be IL said there
are men In this Nation so Indifferent to the
country's honor, so In patriotism
and courage that they would let all the
work Of those men go for naught-let their
blood be spilled In vain. But the hearts OF
our Nation Is sound, and the puny folk
who deem IL otherwise are wOefully mis-
taken In their countrymen. Wnere our nag
has been raised II shall not be hauled down.
II any difficulty seems greater than We ex-
pected Ii merely means that we shall exert
a little more strength in overcoming it. /
read with pride the other day how both
senator's from California, though of oppo-
site political parties. Joined in assuring the
President that California would stand like
a rock behind him in seeing that there was
no step back in the Philippines, and / can
assure him of the like spirit in the great
State OF which i have the Eonor to be Gov
ernor. We stand ready TO give him
whatever he needs In men or money TO
put down the armed savagery TO which we
are opposed In the Philippines. He shall
have all he wishes to put Ii down quickly
and. whether II Is put down quickly or not.
he shall have our support in ever increas-
Ing measure until the last spark of resist
ance has been stamped out. We want no
peace talk with men who bear arms in their
hands When they once submit they shall
be treated with absolute justice and equity
and their rights most carefully guarded,
but until they submit they must be taught
with rough hand what Ii Is to make war
upon the American flag. There is no East
and no West when we come TO deal with
questions OF this kind The United States
Is TO be the great power of the Pacific, and
we men OF the Atlantic coast are good
Westerners and are as resolutely bent upon
upbuildins our power in the Pacific as the
men on the Pacific slope themselves.
Our Nation must show itself great not
only In the ways Of peace but in that pre-
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