Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-26

patriotic citizen. In presenting a flag
to the soldiers of the 32nd regiment, he
referred as follows to the Philippine
question:
And every drum BEAT and tramp of
these soldier boys attests the fact that
our flag has gone to the Orient to stay.
1t has gone there, and it will go there,
not as a symbol of oppression or ag-
gression, or of foreign conques and pill
lage, but of American rightful sover-
eighty, and all that is hopeful and de-
sirable in a higher civilization.
Even had this government (Which it
never did given Aguinaldo any assur-
ance of independence. of turning over to
pillage and plumber the capital of Luzon
and to butchery the Spanish army and
tSpanish residents. yet when but for
ADeWey having sum the Spanish fleet
and our soldiers investing Manila. he
could not have set his feet upon Philip
pine soil, during the armistice pending
1.-THE treaty of surrender between America
and Spain, he tainted, bullied and in
suited our soldiers, and finally forced
the picket lines of the army. He prov
ed himself to be an outlaw under inter-
national law. and a selfish migrate, who
recognized no law but his savage in
stirct and personal ambitions. The shot
of the Nebraska boy that awoke from his
lair the tiger Funston and the brave boys
of the west. and called them forth into
that dark night carnage. was directed
by the hand of Eternal Justice. God
pity the American citizen who would say
there is the blood Of a man in the right
upon the laurel wreath that crowns the
brow OF that Nebraska soldier. Rather
do 1 prefer to say of his deed:
There was something OF pride in the
perilous hour.
Whate'er be the shape in which death
might lower:
For fame was there to tell who bleeds,
And honor's eye was on daring deeds.
To say that Aguinaldo is in the right
is to say that Dewey has been and is in
the wrong. When Dewey cabled that
he had SUM the Spanish fleet and asked
for soldiers to invest Manila, he declar-
ed to the world thai his government
ought to hold the territory whose capital
lay under his guns; and there was not e
senator, or a congressman. a public man.
or respectable newspaper in this and
that did not exclaim: All hail TO George
Dewey. And when the flower of our Am
erican youth responded to that call and
defended themselves against the night
assault Of ~Asuinaldo's minions. Dewey
was there, and his deep nouthed cannon
Numbered forth his assistance and his
approval: and he stood at his guns until
the rebels We're driven out b1 range; and
from that day to this he has approved
the war: and like a patrio. Z. he is, he
has stood by his W government and by
his own soldiers, >and would feel rebuked
and diSllonored to-day if the flag he
hoisted on the ruined walls of the ar
mory on Cavite island were hauled down.
When the treaty of peace between
the United States and Spain was con-
cluded. the sovereignty of the United
states was extended over the group of
Philippine islands. and the president of
~, Trpft,l Statno. on,,11 ,,1t Sc s1 CO 10
sired, Of his own motion, Withdraw our
surrender the sovereignty to the Fill
pinos. The sovereignty. by this treaty
is vested in the United States and is not
in the executive branch of the govern
ment. 1t would require the action of the
executive and legislative branches of tht
government to do that. The United
States owns the Philippine Islands by
the same right and by the same law OF
nations that it does the territory that
Thomas jefferson acquired from France
and just as it owns New Mexico. AriZona
and Southern California, acquired from
Mexico: and Alaska from Russia: Hawai-
from its own people: and Porto Rice
from Spain. And you soldiers are jus
as much in the line of duty and patriot
ism and law in carrying this flag to thu
Philippines as YOU would be in carrying
it TO Mexico, Arizona or Alaska, wer,
the greasers and indian there trying t.
utiNc I'LL w tIOSc teIIllOIiHS america
institutions and establish Independent
governments.
l. therefore,, have a right to say to yo,
that after you have unfurled this banne
: to the Oriental breezes if any rebel ham
should undertake to pull it down, ''shoo
him on the spot and if you miss that b
5 sure to hit him in some other vital place
| believe it is in fulfillment of the des
tiny of Christian civilization that w
l should hold and keep what this war wit
a rotton desDotism has laid at our feet
: 1t comes as a part of the white Eln'
1 burden. We should hold it not as i'm
2 peflal Rome did the territory which it
~conquering armies overran, for the SAX
. OF glory and plumber, but as a high an,
e sacred trust for the disenthrallmen
G and elevation Of the b~enighted peopl
who inhabit those islands, in order +
+ give them liberty with law and govern
. ment without oppression"
4 The whole matter is expressed in on
@ sentences: The duty of the hour is t
destroy the rebellion, and then do justic
d to the misguided rebels.
o. II BARD OF THE BROOK.