The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-14
Goes There to Welcome the Return
ing Volunteers.
TALKS OF PHILIPPINES
PAYS A TRIBUTE 10 THE FIGHT
ING SOLDIERS.
Praises Them For Their Heroic Deeds
and Declares That 10000 Men
Will Support the American Flag
and All 1t Stands For In the
Island of Luzon.

Fargo. N. D.. Oct. 1S.-Over 10000
people greeted President Mckinley and
his party when they arrived here to-
night ait 40 aEntering carriages, tine
party was driven to reviewing stand
through line of the First Dakota VOL
unteers VINO recently returned from
the Philippines.
The president was received with wild
demonstrations. In his address he re-
ferred repeatedly to the situation in the
Philippines. When f1eNs declared the
United States government would send
$4,000 men to the Philippines to uphold
the American flag where. the volunteers
had placed it the crowd approved the
declaration with wild applause. The
president said, in part:
Il have come here especially that l
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 filled my heart with joy
when, with other volunteers and regu-
lars, you sent me word that s1ou would
not quit the battle line in Lu2on until
L could create new army and send
there. You refused to beat a retreat
or shirk your coloFs in the presence
of the enemy. No matter who wanted
you TO go home, you said: We will
stay ana Keep the nag Stainless Iii ttkS
presence of the enemy.
Delicate and Trying Duty.
mo 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 being prepared in
Paris, then for its ratification by the
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the exchange of ratification between
the United States and Spain, waiting
through all that long period, accepting
the insolenee of the insurgents with
dignity, because they were ordered by
the executive of the nation not to strike
blow pending the treaty of peace, ex-
cept in defense.
'.They accepted, therefore, the inso-
lenee of the insurgents with patience
sublime. We never dreamed that the
little body of insurgents whom we mad
lust emancipated from Spain would
turn upon the flag that had delivered
them. Then it was that the frsurgent
leader began an attack upon our men
and then our boys let loose. But / al
ways thought the boys were quite
ready for it. (Appiause9
Il want to do them the credit CT say
ing here in the presence of their neigh
hors and friends. their fathers and
rnuthers, that these boys forebore all
things rather than Gtisobey the order
of the government they were serving.
The leader of the irf5urgent forces Gays
to the American government: You can
have peace if YOU will give us indie
pendence.' Peace for independence, he
SAYS He had another price than that
for peace once before, bNt the United
states pays no gold for peace. We
never gave a bride fer peace in all our
history, and we never will. tAppiause)
Will Support the Flag.
Our flag is there where you left it,,
you boys of the North Dakota volun-
teers. You left it there in the hands OF
those who took your places, without
blood or without stain. And wherever
that standard is raised, whether in the
western or eastern hemisphere, 1t
stands for liberty, civilization and hui
MARTY Our flag stands for liberty
wherever it floats. And we propose to
put 10000 men behind that flag in Lu-
ION to maintain the authority of the
United States. and for the glory of She
republic in the interest of civilization
and humanity. We accept the respon-
esbilfty of duty at whatever cost"
Attorney General GTiggs, Secretary
Long, Secretary Gage, Secretary Hitch
cock and Secretary Wilson and Se1la-
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 tine presidential traSn
was transferred from the Northern Pa
cific to the line of the Chicago. Miiwau-
kee & St Paul railway, and. departed
fpr Aberdeen. s. D.