The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-10-26

shall be honest and just and equal. We
are interested In the progress ahd PROF.
perity OF the country and the wellbe-
Ing and advancement of the people. We
have been greatly blessed as govern
ment and people. We are rich in al
material things.
Your own state is blessed with soil
and mines of rare value. Your popula
ton Is increasing, and in single yea
you sent our your products 1yalued al
nearly $i00.000.000. Your population i.
about 100000. You raise more than
you consume. You send your surplus
products from the field or production to
the field CT consumption, and there
comes flowing back to you in return
money for your labor and your invest
ment. We are interested in our public
schools. in our colleges, and in our UNI
versities.
Then we are interested in the, honor
OF the country The American name
up to this hour has never had any faint
put upon 1t, and | trust and believe it
never will have. We have never lacked
the soldiers to defend any cause in
which the country has been engaged
from the days of 1776 down to the pres
ent hour.
Discusses Expansion.
The President then took up the ex-
pansion issue, saying:
I'VE have been adding some territory
to the United States. The little folks
will have TO get new geography. We
have good deal more territory in the
United States than when we were boys,
and we have been adding some within
the last eighteen months. We fave not
only been adding territory to the
United States, but we have been 2ddi3g
character and prestige - the american
name.
we have planted cur flag in Porto
Rico Hawaii and in The Philippines
| We planted it there because we had a
right to plant ii there. We had a war
with Spain. Every effort YVES made to
avert it. / used every effort at peace
| before was was finally declared by the
Congress of the United States but
when war was declared there was but
one thing for the american people to
| do, and that was to destroy the Spani h
| sea power wherever we could find it,
| and so we sent Dewey to Manila, and
we told him to go there, commence OPP
erations, find the Spanish fleet, and
| capture or destroy it, He did it. He
| found and destroyed it, and when lie
had done that, then we had the respon-
sibility or the Philippines which we
could not evade.
'"And there has never been a moment
OF time, my countrymen, when we could
| have left Manila Bay or Manila harbor
or the archipelago of the Philippines
| without disholor to our name. We did
not go there to conquer the Philippines.
We went there to destroy the Spanish
| fleet that we might end the war, but in
| the providence of God, who works In
mysterious ways. this great archipel-
| ago was put into our lap, and the
| American people never shirE duty.
| "Apd the flag now there is not the dag
| of tyranny, II is the flag OF liberty, and
| wherever the flag gees, character, edl:-
| cation, American intelligence, Ameri-
| can civilization and American liber-
| ty CO."
| What He Said at Huron.
| At Huron the President said:
| my fellow Citizens: l bring my
| heartfelt salutation to this one If the
younger sisters of our federal union
| You have made wonderful progress
| You hove been enjoying in the last
| twenty-four months an uneNampled
| prosperity. Good cr)Ds and fair prices
| have raised the mortgage sni lowered
| the interest; and while the interest has
| been lowered to the borrower the stand
| ard OF the money loaned has not been
i lowered.
Il came here to make an acknovl-
| edrcmont to the peoDi" OF this state Ter
its patriotism When YOU were terri
tory you furnished Lattaiions of gallant
soldiers 20 fight in the great wor for
/ the preservation of the Union, and my
comrades of the Grand Army OF the
| Republic are all about me here today.
And when the Spanish war came
| the sons CT these veterans and the sons
| of these settlers sprang to arms at on e
upon the call Of country; and o7e regl-
ment of your troops served most gal
lantly and uncomplainingly in the isl
| and OF LuZon / had the extreme
pleasure &C joining in South Dakota S
| welcome to these brave men. They LOOK
| like athletes, showing the generous
care OF the government OF the United
States.
We Did Not Seek Them.
1T is given to the strong to bear the
burdens of the weak: and your PRAYER
| should be, not that the burdens shoIid
be rolled away, but that God shoaid
give us strength to bear them. And the
| so-cailed burdens which this war
placed upon the American people were
unsought and unexpected, for NOBODY
in the United States dreamed eighteen
months ago that the Philippine archi-
| rclago would become part II The
United States.
| "The islands came not to Us OF our
seeking, hut as one Of the inevitable
and unacceptable results OF that war.
When Dewey went into Manila lay I'M
der orders and destroyed the spanish
fleet, from that hour we we're RESPONSE
| BILE for the peace of the Philippine ISL
/ And frS,-Y, that hour could