Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Presidential Part Pays q
Visit to Quin Cy.
SEVERAL TANKS MADE
MI. Mckinley, Secretaries Griggs and
Root Tell of the Gl0rieS of Ameri-
can ArmS--PhilippineS Will Be
Held by the United States.

and several members of the bin de-
livered brief addresses from the re-
viewing stand at Quincy. The presi-
dem said: Il thank you one and all for
this patriotic welcome. 1t has given me
pleasure to meet this morn
ing at the soldiers home the men of 1861,
the veterans who stood in the trenches
and behind the guns in that year of great
emergency, when the life of the nation
hung in the balance. I(Applause.) 1t
has given me like pleasure also to meet
with the ex-soldiers of the Spanish war
from the city of Quincy and the naval
militia representing the patriotism of
1868. (Applause.) And it is gratifying
to me to learn that you sent from this
city one of the gallant young officers who
fought with Dewey in Ma Mia bay. This
is an era Of patriotism, my countrymen.
The United States has never been lack
ing in gratitude to it's soldiers and its
sailors who have fought in it's cause and
the cause Of the United States has never
lacked defenders in every crisis of it's
history from the revolutionary days to
the present: the citizens of the United
States have been ever ready to uphold at
any cost the flag and the honor of the ma
ton and to take all the responsibility,
born of duty, that can never be reDudi-
ated. Duty not we'll performed is dis
honor and dishOnor brings shame, which
is. heavier to carry than any burden
which honor can impose. My fellow citi-
zens, l thank o for this more than gra-
cious welcome and bid 0 all a good
morning"
Secretary Root said: Fellow citizens
Of Illinois, my humble duty during the
last two months is to do what you are
doing here to-day by the ouragem
and inspiration Of your presence. hold
ing up the hands n Strengthening the
soul and cheering the courage of the pres
ident, the chief magistrate of our beloved
country. in maintaining it's ono and
doing it's full duty before God and man
on the great stage of the world. There
is no craftsmanship, no factionalism in
the business in which we are engaged.
helping President Mckinley. No man can
shelter himself under the flag of party
or. justify hilnsel BY any declaration of
principle in failing to stand behind the
men of all parties and all creeds who lie
to-day in the trenches Of Luzon. l have
no fear, no question whatever that in the
days and nights that the secretary of war
is giving to seeing to it that the army
Of the United States is the best fed. best
equipped and best armed army the
world has ever seen. the sympathy and
the support of the people of Quincy, OF
Illinois, of the country will be behind
the president. The cause in which your
soldiers are fighting and in which country
dc mocrats and republicans alike stand
| ehind them is the cause of civilization
and peace. The men behind the uns in
! Manila to-day will be followed by the
men with the text book and the Bible,
bringing the arts Of civilization, respect
for law and order and the welfare of the
coI,ntu-v. Mo government can live for
self alone. nor grow to full stature by
~seltshness. This great republic is fol-
loving to-day, as it has followed in the
past. the ines marked out by Providence,
pointing out the way of the great march
| of civilization"
Attorney General Griggs spoke as fol-
lows: II was interested to see that vast
| ~concourse of school children who turn
ed out his morning. all with flags in their
hands, to welcome the president of the
United States. 1t took me back in mem
DRY to the days When l was an American
scnoolboy and l remember that in those
days when l opened my geography !
could find all the territory of the United
States upon one continent and one page
but now when your children open thell
books and are old to point out the pos
sessions over which the American flag
floats in sovereignty. 1t takes two con
I~tincnts to disclose thai territory. The
secretary of the interior is making a new
map of the United States of America anc
he is embarrassed to find room to place
not only the states, but those vast new
island possessions that have become ours
And what is their present condition
What do these school children learl
about these islands that have come tt
us: They will be told by their teacher:
} tina: within a year there has been added
to our domain a vast archipelago IN tn
| Pacific ocean. peOpled with 5000. 900 or H..
900, 900 of subjects who speak more tina
a score of different languages and wh'
compose more thai two score discordan
} and disconnected tribes. They Will b'
told that for more thar 800 years thes'
islands, rich in natural possessions. fe
tile in soil, have been governed by Span
ish authority and that down to the ent
OF this nineteenth century Of civilization
ard ogr they have attained no
much more intelligence. not much NOR
liberty than they had attained in thos
days when the great Spanish galleon
carried home annually from those island
their wealth of gold and silver to enricl
the treasury of King Philip. They vii
be told that to-day the United States o
America possesses by treaty, signed an
ratified by Spain. accepted and approve
J by the senate and congress Of the Cnite
States it's president. the only laWfu
sovereignty and authority over thes
islands, a sovereignty and an authorit
recognized and undisputed by any singh
nation or people on the face of the eartf
They will be told that in one of thes