The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25

alike, in order to permanently succeed.
we must base our conduct on the de-
calogue and the golden rule. We must
put in practice those holy virtues, for
the lack of which no intellectual brill
liancy no material prosperity can ever
atone. 1t is a good thing for a nation
to be rich, but it is better thing for
a nation to be the mother of men who
possess the qualities of honesty, of
courage and of common sense. We
have many great problems ahead of
us. We Americans. as we stride along
the road to national greatness-prob
lens of home administration and prob
lens that affect our dealings with the
outside world. We cannot solve them
if we approach them in the spirit of
levity or vainglorious boastfulness.
Still less if we approach them in a
spirit of timidity. We must insist upon
honesty and Righteousness, upon that
uprightness of character which is the
keystone in the arch of true national
greatness. The problems that rise from
year to year differ widely and must be
met in widely different ways and not
one of them can be properly solved un-
less we approach it with resolute fear
lessness and with sincere purpose to
do justice to all men, exacting 1t from
others and exacting it no less from our
selves.
The Work of Peace.
IT am proud of the way you have
taken up the broken thread of your
lives-in which you have gone back
to the farm, the ranch, the mine, the
factory and the counting room. In
so doing you show yourselves to be
typical American citizens for 1t has
always been the pride Of our country
that an American, while most earnestly
desirous of peace and ever ready to
show himself a hard and dangerous
fighter If need should arise, and that
on the other hand, when once the need
has passed he could prove that war
had not hurt him for the work of
peace and that he was all the filter
to do this work for having done the
other, too. We may be called to war
but once in a generation. and I most
earnestly hope that we shall not have
to face war again for many years. The
duties of peace are always with u.s.,
and these we must perform all our
lives from years to years end, If we
are to prove ourselves in very fact
good citizens of the commonwealth.
We must work hard for the sake or
those deepndent upon us: we must see
that our children are brought up In a
way that will make them worthy of
the great inheritance which we, their
fathers, have ourselves received from
those that went before us. We muso
do our duty by the state. We must
frown upon dishonesty and corruption
and war for honesty and righteous
ness.
Il am proud of you, my comrades,
not because you were very brave in
battle, but because when once the
battle was over you showed yourselves
always merciful to the weak. cow
ard in your ranks would have receiv-
ed short shrift indeed, but when once
the battle was won, l never knew one
of you to perform an act of cruelty.
/ shall ever keep in mind the valor you
showed, as you fought in the jungles
Of Las Guasamis, as you charged UP
the slopes of San Juan hill, and shall
keep in mind no less the way in which
you shared your scanty rations with
the poor refugees at Ell Caney, the
way in which you tried to help the wo
men and children upon whom war had
laid its heavy hand.
A Tribute to Wood.
Let me say a word to 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 commander, Major General
Leonard Wood, whose administra ton
of the province of Santiago has re-
flected such high credit. not merely
upon himself but upon the nation SO
fortunate as to have him in her SER
vice. We send to them the heartiest
and most loyal greeting. But when
we come to speak of our dead COM
rades. of the men who gave their lives
in the fierce rush of the jungle, fight
ing or who wasted to death in the
fever camps we can only stand with
barred heads and pray that we may SC
live to die as worthily as these, our
brothers, died. Allan Capron, in the
sunny prime of youth, in his courage,
his strength and his beauty; 'Bucky'
O'Neil, than whom in all the army
there brea thed no more dauntless soul
of those and other gallant comrades,
the men who carried the rifles in the
ranks, all we can say is that they prov
ed their truth by their endeavor, that
in the hour of the nations need these
rose to the occasion.
Now their work is over, their eyes
are closed forever, their bodies moulder
in the dust, but the spirit that was IN
them cannot die, and it shall live for
time everlasting.
so much for our comrades of the
regiment. Let us not forget our 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
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 gallantry
of those men: and / suppose few of US
have not thought at times that we
should like ourselves to fight beside
Lawton as we fought beside Hill last
July and to see If the rough riders
could not do their share of the work
now done by the splendid men who fol-
lowed Funston, Hale and other daring
leaders, who have added so many pages
to the honor roll of American history
We stand ready to give him what
ever he needs in men or money, to put
down the armed 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 our sup
port in ever Increasing measure until
the last spark of resistance 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 absolute justice and equity
and their rights most carefully guard
ed: but until they submit they must be
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