Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-24

ington regiment was waiting to receive
the men fresh from the marshes and
rice fields of the Philippines. The new
Corners were greeted with cheers by
men from the north. Governor Shaw,
of Iowa, Secretary Of State Dobson and
other Iowa officials were present TO ex-
tend formal welcome to the troops of
their state.
After the regiment was dismissed
Governor Shaw made brief speech
saying in part:
Officers and men of the Fifty-f1rst
Iowa Volunteers: Iowa extends official
greeting to her brave boys who have SO
nobly upheld the nations honor and the
reputation of the state. Thirty-six
hours from the first call for troops by
the president saw the four regiments of
the Iowa National Guard modified at
Camp Mckinley, Des Moines. From
that hour to this not a man has proved
recreant, not regiment has asked to
be mustered out or to be released from
any duty. Neither officers nor men ever
complained of any order In camp at
Chickamauga, at Jacksonville, at the
Preside; in garrison in Cuba or on the
firing line in far LuZon, the Iowa regi-
by gentlemanly bearing and heroic con-
their state and the nation and have
helped to keep the record of the Ameri-
can citizen soldier stainless and the en-
Wy of the world.
Through no fault of the other Iowa
regiments you alone have been permit
ted to participate in the active mill
ta,y operations of our country's recent
history. The services you have rem
dered the other organizations from your
state stood ready to perform, and the
hardships which they SO nobly and pa
tieritly suffered would have been as I'M
complainingly endured by you had the
fortunes of war reversed your assign
ments. Each in its place and in strict
obedience to orders did it's duty and
did it we'll.
by the terms of your enlistment you
We're entitled to be mustered out when
the terms of peace between your coun-
try and Spain We're mutually agreed
upon and ratified. But let it be known,
and let your children be advised, that
neither regiment as such. nor its Off
GERS or men, ever asked to be discharg
ed, but you cheerfully consented to re-
main beyond the specified time of your
enlistment and until congress should
provide for a new army to take your
place. 1t was not Your fault that you
We're not the first to be mustered in,
but it is to your lasting credit that you
are next to the last of the original vol
unteer army to be mustered out. And
the service you have more recently rem
dered has been as honorab BILE as that for
which you first enrolled your names
The sixteen engagements with the
treacherous insurgents Will bear COM
parison both as to purpose and justifi-
cation with the more dazzling achieve
ments in Manila Bay. at Santiago and
San Juan The cause of liberty has not
been made TO suffer by any act of
yours The flag you followed is the flag
lfthat Dewey carried, and it casts no
shade under any sky or upon any peo-
| pie.
ut is not more honorable TO emanci-
pate from the tyrannical power of
spain than from the barbarous usurpa-
| ton of Aguinaldo. Human freedom can
not prosper under the flag of either. nor
can ii ever suffer under the Stars and
4 stripes. And now you are about to re-
turn TO the state that sent you forth
i with tears. that for all these eighteen
4 months has followed you with hei
prayers. and that now extends its glad
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