The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-26


himself a hard and dangerous fighter if
need should rise, and that on the other
hand, when once the need had 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 US and these we must perform all
our lives long, from years end to years
end, if we are to prove ourselves in
very fact good citizens of the common
wealth We must work hard for the
sake of those dependent 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 re-
ceived from those that went before US.
We must do our duty by the state. We
must frown upon dishonesty and cor
ruption, and war for honest and right
eOuSneSS.
I am proud of you, my comrades, not
only because you were very brave in bat
was over you shared your scanty rations
with the miserable. a coward in your
deed, but when the battle was won l
never Knew one OF you to perform n IN an nef
the valor you showed as you fought in
the Ju9gles Of Las Gu s ina IA, as S y3}p
and ] shall keep in mind no less the way
the poor miserable refugees Of III Caney,
the way in which you tried to help the
laid It's heavy hand In our regiment the
men who tiinched from armed foe and the
man who wronged a woman or child
would have met with equally quick and
grim justice
Let me say 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 commander, Ma
jor General Leonard Wood, whose ad-
has reflected such high credit not merely
upon himself but upon the nation so for
We send to them the heartiest and most
loyal greetings. With these men we hope
in the no distant future to strike hands
again. and as long as we live, and they
But when we. come to speak of our
lives in the herce rush or the jungle fght-
ing. or who wasted to death in the fever
heads and pray that We may live
at the end to die as WORLDLY as those,
sunny prime of youth, in his courage, his
strength and his beauty; "Bucky'' o Neiu,
ed no more dauntiess soui-of these and
other gallant comrades, the men who car
is that they proved their truth by their
| endeavor; that in the hour of our great
need and galiantly and cheerfuliy gave
to their country the utmost that any man
can EiVe-their lVeS-fOr read in the
| Holy Writ that greater love hath no man
fra tS la es eomn en 9 en 1o 1Ie I4b A
country that they gallantly gave their
| the uplifting of the human race. Now
| their work is over, their eyes are closed
dust, but the spirit that was in them can
not die and it shall live for time ever
so much 70 our comrades and the
| regiment. Let US not forget our comrades
who this summer facing all that we
! the gallant men, the. regulars and volun-
nag and the interests OF the nation in the
! Philippines. Surely there is not one of
! pride as he read of the gallantry of those
I men; and suppose few of US have not
| selves to fight beside Lawton as we fought
beside him last July and to see if the
the work nqW done BY the splendid 1
| ing leaders, who during the past six
months have added so many new pages
ITO our shame be it said, there are men
| in this nation so indifferent 10 the coun-
nd c6GTage 2 hey Would e m the
! work of these men go for naught--let
| hour Of our battle is sounded ana the
| puny folks who deem it otherwise are Woe
| fully mistaken in their cOuntrymen. When
! our flag has been raised It shall not be
| hauled down If any difficulty seems
greater than we expected il merely means
! that we shall exert little more strength
in overcoming it. 1 read with pride the
! other day how both senators from Cali
| fornia, those of opposite political parties,
| joined in assuring the president that Cali
| fOrnia would stand like a rock behind him
| in seeing that there was no step back in
! the Philippines: and 1 can assure him
! of the like spirit from the great state of
/ which / have the honor to be governor
i We stand ready to give him whatever 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 whet her
| it is put down quickly or not. he shall
| have our support in ever increasing meas
| ure 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
/ guarded: but until they submit they must
/ be taught with rough hands what it is to
make war upon the American flag. There
! is no east and no west when we come to
/ deal with questions of this kind. The
| United States is to be the great power of
| the Pacific. and we men of the Atlantic
| coast are good weSternerS and are as resO-
| lutely bent upon upbuilding power in
| the Pacific as the men on the Pacific slope
| themselves
| I'VE are a great nation. We must show
| ourselves great not only in the ways OF
| peace, but in that preparedness for war
| which best inSureS peace We must up
| build our navy and army until they CORE
! SpOnd to the new needs which the new
| century will bring. Above all, my COM
rades and my fellow cOuntryrnen, we must
| build up in this country that spirit of
! which alone can make this nation reach
|