The record-union., 1899-06-25

ana to show prompt obedience, which
make it possible to turn the American
volunteer SO soon into first-class type
OF lighting man. OF those of our num-
Der who landed for the brief campaign
in the tropical midsummer against
Santiago one-fourth were killed or
wounded and three fourths of the re-
mainder were at one time or another
stricken down by fever. Many died, but
there is not one among you so poor in
spirit that he does not count fever,
wounds and death itself as nothing,
compared with the honor of having
been able to serve with the regiment
under the flag of the United States in
one of the most righteous wars which
this country has seen.
My comrades, the regiment was but
microbe of our great country and the
principles which enabled us to make
SO much out Of it are those upon
which We must act in the nation itself
If we are to stand level to the needs
of our great destiny.
In our political and social life alike
in order to permanently succeed we
must base our conduct on the Deca-
logue and the Golden Rule. We must
put in practice holy virtues, for the
lack of which no intellectual brilliancy
no material prosperity can ever atone
1t is good thing for 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 cour-
age and of common sense
II am proud Of the way in which 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, fer it has al
ways been the pride. of our country
that an American while most earnestly
DESTROYS of peace and ever ready to
| show himself hard and dangerous
fighter if need should rise, 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
generation, and 1 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 commonwealth. We
must do our duty by the State. We
must frown upon dishonesty and cor
ruption and war for honesty and right
eousness.
Il am proud of you, my comrades,
not only because you We're very brave
in battle, but because when once the
battle was over, you showed yourselves
always merciful to the weak. A cow
ard in your ranks would have received
short shrift indeed, but when once the
battle was won, / 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 Guanimas, 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 miserable refugees at
I'll Caney, the way in which you tried
to help the women and children upon
which war had laid its heavy hand In
our regiment the man who flinched
from armed foe and the man who
wronged woman or child would have
met with equally quick and grim JUS
tice.
Let me say a 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 COM
rades. and especially to our former
commander, now Major General Leon
ard Wood We send to them the hear
test and most loyal greeting But
We To II Of AO1,,-
comrades, of the men who gave their
lives in the jungle, fighting, or who
wasted to death in the fever. camps, we
can only stand with barred heads and
pray that we may SO live and at the end
Gle 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'Nedll, than whom in all the army
there breathed no more dauntless soul
of these and other gallant comrades.
the men who carried the rifles in the
ranks. all we can say is that they
proved their truth by their endeavor
that in the hour of the nations trial they
rose level to the need and gallantry
and cheerfully gave to their country
the utmost that any man can give
their lives-for we read in the Holy
Writ that greater love hath no man
than this, to lay down his life for a
friend. And these men SO loved their
country that they CALAMITY gave their
lives for her honor and renown and for
the uplifting of the human race. Now
their work is over, their eyes are closed
forever, their bodies moulded 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 reg
iment. 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 regu-
lars and volunteers who are unfolding
the honor of the flag and the interests
OF the nation in the Philippines. Sure
ly there is not one of US whose veins
have not tingled with pride as he read
of the gallantry of those men, and I
suppose few of us have not thought at
times that we should like ourselves to
fight beside Lawton as we fought be-
side him last July and to see If the
Rough Riders could not do. their share
of the work now done by the splendid
men who followed Funston, Hale and
other daring leaders who, during the
| past six months have added SO many
pages to the honor roll of American
| history To our shame be 1t said that
there are men in. this nation so indiff-
erent to the country's honor, SO luke
warm in patriotism and courage that
they would let all the work of these
men go for naught--let their blood no