Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-26

those that went before US. We must
frown upon dishonesty and corruption,
and war for honest and righteousness.
Il am proud Of you, my comrades, not
only because you were very brave in
battle, but because when once the bat
| tie was over you showed yourselves al
ways merciful to the weak. A coward
in your ranks would have received
short shrift indeed, but when once the
battle was won l never knew one of
you to perform an act Of cruelty. l shall
ever keep in mind the valor you showed
| al you fought in the jungles of Las
Guasimas, as you charged up the slopes
of San Juan hill, and l shall keep in
mind no less the way in which you
showed your sympathy for the poor,
miserable refugees at Ell Caney; the
way in which you tried to help the
women and children upon whom var
had laid it's heavy hand. In our regi-
ment the man who flinched from armed
foe and the man who murdered women
and children would have met with
equally quick and grim justice.
LET me say a word of those to whom
our thoughts should turn at such a
time, both among the living and among
the dead, to our absent living comrades,
and especially to our former command
er, now Major General Leonard Wood,
whose administration of the province Of
Santiago has reflected the utmost credit
not merely upon himself, but upon the
nation so fortunate as to have him in
her service. We send to them the heart
lest and most loyal greeting. With these
men we hope in the no distant future to
strike hands again, and as long as we
live and they live we shall all be bound
together by most indissoluble ties. But
| when we come to speak of our dead
comrades, Of the men who gave their
lives in the fierce rush of the jungle
fighting, or who wasted to death in the
fever camps, we can only stand with
barred heads and pray that we may so
live as at the end to die as worthily as
these our brothers died. Allan Capron,
in the sunny prime of his youth, in his
courage, his strength and his beauty;
"Bucky' O'Neill, han whom in all the
army there breathed no more dauntless
soul-of these and other gallant COM
rades, the men who carried the rifles in
the ranks, all we can say is that they
proved their truth by their endeavor
that in the hour of our greatest need
these rose level. to the need and gal
lantly and cheerfully gave to their
country the utmost that any man can
~give-their lives, for we cad in the
Holy Writ that greater owe hath no
man than this, to lay down his life for
a friend And these men so loved their
country that they g%allantly gave their
lives for her honor and renown and for
the uplifting of the human race. Now
their work is over, their eyes are closed
forever, their bodies moulder in the
dust, but the spirit that was in them
can not die, and it shall live for time
everlasting.
$50 much for our comrades Of the
regiment. Let us not forget u COM
rades who this summer are facing all
that we faced last summer. Let us not
forget the gallant men, the regulars and
volunteers, who are upholding the hon.
or Of the flag and the interests of the
nation in the Philippines. Surely there
is not one Of us whose veins have not
tingled with pride as he read of the gal
lantry of those men; n l suppose few
of us have not thought at times that we
should like ourselves to fight beside
LaWton as we fought beside him last
July, and to see if the rough riders
could not do their share of the work
Funston, Hale and other daring leaders,
who, during the past six months, have
added so many new pages to the honor
roll Of American history. To our shame
be it said there are men in this nation
so Indifferent to the country's honor,
| SO lukeWarm in patriotism and courage,
that they would let all the work Of these
men go for naught-let their blood be
spilled in vain. But the hour of our
battle is sounded, and the puny folk
who deem it otherwise are woefully
mistaken in their countrymen. Where
our flag has been raised it shall not be
hauled down. If any difficulty seems
greater than we expected, it merely
means that we shall exert a little more
strength in overcoming it. l read with
pride the other day how both senators
from California, those Of opposite po-
iitical parties, joined in assuring the
president that California would stand
like a rock behind him in seeing that
there was no step back in the Philip
pines, and so l can assure him of the
like spirit from the great state of which
l have the honor to be the governor.
We stand ready to give him whatever
ne needs in men or money to put down
the savagery to which we are opposed
in the Philippines. He shall have all he
wishes to put it down quickly, and
whether it is put down quickly or not he
shall have u support in ever increas-
ing measure until the last spark of re-
sistance has been stamped out. We
want no peace talk with men who bear
arms in their hands. When once they
submit they shall be treated with abso-
lutte justice and equity, and their rights
most carefully guarded; but until they
submit they must be taught with rough
hands what it is to make wal on the
l A xoosoo ao- nyl,oro to ~ 1oat or1 no
west when we come to deal with ques-
lions Of this kind. The United States is
to be the great power Of the Pacific,
and we men Of the Atlantic coast are
rood uastarnars and ara al rasolutelv