The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-05

land. We shall search in vain through
the annals of human kind from ancient
to modern times for anything more in
spring, more dashing, more brilliant in
conception or more superb in eXecu-
ton than the charge of the American
soldiers, regulars and volunteers alike
at San Juan, at Ell Caney, at Santiago
and later on in the magnificent fight
ing in the far away Philippine islands,
where the courage and dash and dar-
ing of the volunteers from the Western
states has excited the enthusiastic ad-
miration Of all beholders. and has made
for them worldwide reputation.
Pride of Montana.
Our own commonwealth has cause to
feel proud indeed of the part it has
played in the great drama of the war.
When last year the president called for
volunteers, from no state in the union
did there come a quicker or more gen
erous response; nowhere in this broad
land did the tide of patriotic fervor
run higher, and from no section, popu
lation considered, were there SO many
patriots anxious and willing to bear
arms in support of the honor and dig
nifty of the nation as from our own be
loved state. Our volunteer regiment of
infantry was the first to be enrolled
and to report for duty. We had faith
lieved that if the opportunity pres ant-
ed they would creditably sustain The
dignity and good name of our state.
The opportunity came, and nobly IN
deed have the men of Montana met
every obligation of duty, of honor and
of manhood. In a strange land, under
tropical sun, surrounded by difficult
ties and dangers calculated to appal
men of less heroic mold, confronted by
treacherous savage foes who are not
amenable ITO the laws of civilized war
fare, who murder under flags of truce,
who mutilate the dead and wounded
upon the field, who cut the threats of
their own followers to enforce submits
sion and who assassinate their own
leaders. Under these adverse condi-
tons, laughing at danger and defying
death, the First Montana infantry has
shown discipline and courage, a dar-
ing and heroism, loyalty to country.
which fills the heart of every true son
and daughter of this commonwealth
with pride and admiration. Every
man Of them from Kessler and Wallace
and Cook and Miller and Hill and Dill
Ion and Jensen and Green down to the
humblest private in the ranks is a
hero. By the splendor of their achieve
ments they have shed glory upon the
escutcheon of this fair young state
which the passing years can never dim.
They have borne our banner proudly
aloft in the forefront of the conflict,
and by their noble, unselfish devotion
to duty they have set an example to
the coming generations whose value is
beyond computation.
1t is true that our pride in the glory
of their deeds is saddened by III"
knowledge that not all who left us.
filled with so much ardor and enthus-
aSm, will return to receive our praise
and commentator. Precious lives
have been offered up on the altar of
country and duty. Deeply do We
mourn the loss of brennan and French
and Tilly, and all the rest of noble boys
who have fallen in battle. They We're
as manly and brave. as loyal and true,
as the heroes and martyrs of any land
in any age. The record of their deeds is