Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09
HOME ONCE MORE R J.
Boys Of Fifty-hrst Leave Council
Bluffs for Home Towns.
MEET ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONS.
xredvhite Welcomed the Soldiers Y es.
tcrday-Col. Lopez Takes Leave Of
the Regiment = welcomes at 8
Des Moines and Oskoloosa.

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The city has paid its respects to
Iowa's soldier boys and extended to
them. on behalf Of their native state,
an appropriate welcome. i. y
|. After day of parades, banquets and
speeches, of greeting and thanks, the
soldiers departed during the early ey-
ening hours to their home towns,
where other enthusiastic receptions
awaited them. BY midnight, most of
the companies We're well on. their way
home.
Fred white. .
Hon. Fred White, democratic candi-
date for governor, welcomed the boys,
saying: s
at is entirely safe to say that there is
not a citizen within the borders OF Iowa
who is not today rejoicing over your
safe return to the soil of our beloved
The knowledge of this
fact, that rejoicing is not confined to
any particular section or to any par
ticular class Of our people, but thar it
IT is shared by all alike, must certainly
be intensely gratifying to. you men.
Neither is the particular class here to-
day constituted special oracle to de-
liver, to you the greetings ofour people.
We are all here for this purpose and all
alike anxious to perform this very.
pleasant duty. q
'Do not for one moment permit your
selves to believe that while all of our
people rejoice, some do 50 with more
fervor than others. The welcome the
people OF Iowa are extending to you
today and which you so richly deserve,
proceeds from quality of human ma
ture common to all our people and
needs only an opportunity to be stimu-
lated into active life. When the actual
power of Spain developed to the point
of unpeopling the island Of Cuba
through the inhuman process of star
walton, our people with one acclaim
announced TO the world in general and
to Spain in particular that such do
bolism could not be perpetrated so
near our shores and you men, with COM
meHdahle swiftness, backed up this
declaration. The people of Iowa not
only admired the sublime spirit OF pa
triotism and humanity that dominated
you and impelled you to enlist, but
they also correctly estimated the sucri-
fees of this step en- your p art involved
For this splendid service, you thus so
promptly rendered, the whole people,
the whole state, thank you from the
hearts and enthusiastically welcome
you 10 your former homes amid them.
In whatever ficldaof danger men may
voluntarily choose to risk and sacri-
fee, their lives, whether it be as a SOL
der meeting an armed enemy or the
rescue of imperileds lives by flood, fire
or pestilence, whether it be in, the mud
attempt to reach the north. pole or 40
clear up the mystifyyipg geography OF
the dark continent; be ii in whatever
field where dangers and difficulties
abound and are to be encountered and
overcome, those who are equal to the
TASK ii overcoming them are always re-
Ms,tiea- 's:sh thssplandits and admira-
ton OF their fettdiN men. This is the
result Of that discriminating Judgment
Of men tina. enables them to separate
The wpifhr freln tl,alnpworihy. to rec
e.gniae and rewt.,d those who lave dis