The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-14
M 'KINLEY VERY DETERMINED
WILL SEND G, 1000 MEN TO PHILIP-
 PINES IF FNECESSARY.

Fargo, N. D.-FIag Will he UpheI, Where the Volunteers Placed It. shusiasm by the Crowd.
 Fargo, N. D., Oct. 13.--Over 1000
 persons greeted President McKinle,
 and his party when they arrived her,
 tonight at 735. Entering carriages
 the party was driven to a reviewing
 stand through lines of the First Nortf
 Dakota volunteers. who recently re
 turned from the Philippines. The pres
 ident was received with wild demon
 stratons. In his address he referred
 repeatedly to the situation in the Phil
 ippines. When he declared the United
 States government would send 65,00(
 men to the Philippines to uphold the
 American flag where the volunteers had
 placed it, the crowd approved the dec-
 laration with wild applause. The
 president SpoRe as IOllOWS.
 My Fellow Citizens-For the past
 eighteen months this country has wit
 messed impressive testimony of the pa
 triotism of the American people. The
 call for 200, ,000 troops was promptly re-
 sponded to by the people of the United
 States without respect to party, or
 creed or section, or nationality. The
 of # 10
 of execution has few if any parallels
 in the military annals of the world. We
 did not go to war until every effort at
 peace was exhausted, and when the
 war came we thought that the sooner it was ended, the better for all con- crned. I have come here tonight, travelling long distance, that l might meet the people of this new and grow ing state, a state which l had the honor, as a member of the national house of representatives, to vote to ad- init as a sister into the national fam fly.
 II am proud of this state, p1oud of the vote I gave for her admission. I came here to speak of .he patriotism of the state of North Dakota. no. only the patriotism of the men who entered the Philippines, but the patriotism of those other brave soldiers ot your state who less fortunate than the Manila vol ulcers, were not able to see fighting service in the field but did their duty, as you did yours I have come espec- tally that I might look into the faces of the North Dakota volunteers who saw service on the battle line in Lu- zon I came here that I might speak to them welcome and say well done. You did your duty and you filled my heart with joy when with other volun- teers and regulars you sent me word that you would not quit the battle line in Luzon until I could create new army and send it there. You refused to beat a retreat or shirk your colors In the presence of the enemy. No mat ter who wanted you to go home, you said We will stay and keep the flag in the presence of the enemy No soldier of any country ever had any more delicate or trying duty.
 This army, of which this fragment rom your state formed part, remain d in Luzon waiting, first, for the reaty Qf peace which was being pre- pared in Paris, then for its ratification 1y the senate of the United States, then lntil the exchange of notifications be- ween the United States and Spain, waiting through all that long period, the insolence of the insur- rents with dignity, because they were ordered by the executive of the nation hat they must not strike a blow pend- ng the treaty of peace, except in de- ense They accepted, therefore, the of the insurgents with a pa fence sublime.
 We never dreamed that the little 'ody of insurgents whom We had just mancipated from Spain--we never for
 moment thought that they would turn pon the flag that had delivered them rom Spain. Then it was that the in- urgent leader made an attack on our len and then our boys let loose. But lways thought the boys were quite | eady for it. (Applause) I want to O them the credit of saying here in the l resence of their neighbors and friends, 1 heir fathers and mothers, that these oys forbore all things rather than dis bey the order of the government they ere serving. The leader of the insur- ent forces says to the American gov You can have peace if you i'll give us independence.' Peace for he says. He had another rice than that for peace once before, ut the United States pays no gold for eace. (Applause.) We never gave a ribe for peace in all our history, and e never will. (Great applause.) Our ag is there where you left it, you boys the North Dakota volunteers. You it it there in the hands of those who ,ok your places, without blot and ithout stain. And wherever that stan- ard is raised, whether in the western the eastern hemisphere, it stands for berty, civilization and humanity. And e propose to put 65, 900 men behind that lg in Luzon to maintain the authority
 the United States and the honor and ory of the republic in the interest of and humanity. We accept e responsibility of duty at whatever 'st."