Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-08
PATRIOTIC DUTY.


PATRIOTIC DUTY.
Commenting on the presidents recent
declaration Of the probable American
policy in the Philippines. SO far as it may
be safely outlined without the authority
OF congress. whose acts no man can pos
s1bly foreshadow. the Chronicle of Sun
day vigorously declares:
ABOVE, briefly, is the plain story of
the Tagalo instruction as it is told by
,he president. Can any of it's statements
be denied? Admitting it's general truth.
what kind of an American must he be
VINO. reckless of the national honor.
couhsels submission to the monstrous de-
mlahus OF an ignorant and vainglorious
1asalo captain, and the abandonment
OF tue islands to the sovereignty of a
hahdful of semi-savages who are unable
TO govern themselves? And blunted must
be ms sense, alike of patriotism and polit-
lcal uecency, who presumes to challenge
the rig mt of the executive to enforce the
authority of the nation over it's territories
ana promptly resent and punish DELHI
crate insult to its flag, no matter at
whose hands or under what ]provocation.
mus the president has one and is still
DONG, and takes upon himself the entire
responsibility for the results. TO those
VINO nave absurdly lauded the malcontent
N"oSiS 90 pdlIlOlS ana heroes lie du-
ministers this sharp rebuke: LAS to the
cruel leaders who have needlessly sacri-
need the lives of thousands of their peo-
PIE. at the cost of some of our best blood,
for the qualification Of their own mbi-
tlous designs. l will leave to others the
u~ngracious task of Justification and eu-
logy.'
HIGH-CLASS SOLDIERS.
To those who contend that the person.
mel of the new volunteer regiments COM
pales unfavorably with that of the earlier
regiments. a glance at a dozen companies
who marched through the streets today
would be very confusing, and a visit to
the Preside would be positively painful.
The new recruits are magnificent fell
~oWs-young. big. athletic and deter
mined looking. Their very appearance is
inspiring. They represent the farms and
factories. the mining and timber dis
tricts of the land. Their officers are vet
Grams. One account this morning says
that more than 200 of R~oosevelt's famous
Rough Riders are encamped at the Pre-
sidio with the Thirty-fourth United
States volunteer infantry, the remainder
OF which arrived here yesterday after
noon from it's mustering-in rendezvous
at Fort Logan, Colo. This new regiment
is practically a Rocky mountain organiza-
ton. 1t is made up of men from Colo
RADIO. Arizona, the Indian Territory,
Oklahoma and Minnesota. The last Of
the ten new commands to begin enlist
ment, it was the first to fill it's rolls and
receive orders to advance, SO eager We're
the men to see more active service under
officers who had been in command of
them during the war with Spain. Nearly
10 per cent of the enlisted men are vet
Grams of the Cuban campaign, while a
majority of the others We're volunteers
for the war with Spain. The 4O-odd Off
GERS have served either in regular or vol
| unteer regiments. This is the only one
Of the ten new regiments that has a colo
mel, a lieutenant-colonel, three majors
and an adjutant, all of whom are gradu-
ates of West Point, and furthermore are
high-honor men from the academy and
tactical experts.
OF the new Kentucky regiment a morn
ing paper Declares:
Made up largely of husky young men
who earlier volunteered for the Spanish
war and did not get beyond the camp of
instruction, these reinforcements for
Otis army are fairly representative Of
the manhood of the country. The Ken
lucky aggregation is particularly notable
because it contains about 25 members Of
the Baker family, notorious for years as
feud- fighters. and several members of
the equally notorious Hatfield faction Of
the Hatfield Mccoy feud, conducted in
| another part of the Blue Grass state. I'm
forgiving and relentless foes where their
families enemies are concerned, these
gunfighters from old Kentucky are look
cd upon With pride by their officers, who
believe that in them they have q fearless
lot of men who will be model soldiers and
dare-devils against the Filipinos. Many
of them enlisted expressly to get away
from the long and senseless feud. and
though the Bakers outnumber their he
reditary enemies 30 to one in the regi-
nrent, they will not raise a hand or say a
word against the few members of the
Howard faction that happened to join
the command before the Bakers were
aware of their presence.
- POPULAR ABROAD. -
The remarkable reception accorded in
Yokohama to the soldiers on board the
returning transport Grant is still a sub
iect of conversation with the Idaho boys.
Said one of them to a reporter:
"The 40 American families at that port
raised a fun of $40. 900 in an hour and
did everything possible to make the visit
of the serVice-Worn volunteers as de-
lightful as possible. The troops marched
up the 1,000-foot pier and into the city
wearing regulation army blue, but carry
ing no arms, as the law forbade it. An
English officer was heard to remark to
his fellow countryman, There's a fine
looking body of men, 1t was the first
time that American soldiers had ever
marched in Japan. The English colony
and other foreign residents offered to