Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-10-26
lOWAAS WILL SOON
Be HOMEWARD BOUND
Fifty-First Regiment Will Be Mus
tered Out Much Earlier
Than Expected.
TO Be RELEASED NOVEMBER
Men will BE Home Before Thanks.
giving---lseccption TO Cover
nor Shaw Prior to HIS IL
Departure for Iowa.

tered out much earlier than was eX-
pected. Last evening the announce
ment was made that owing to the eN-
cellent state of the books and the adj
vanced condition of the rolls the regi-
ment can be mustered out by Captain
Ehrisman on November 2. This not
pnly brings the boys home before
Thanksgiving. but may even get them
to Iowa in time to vote at the fall cleo
ton.
An informal reception was given
Governor Shaw last night by the
Union league club prior to Governor
Shaw's departure for home. In an in
formal talk Governor Shaw declared
that he believed that all state regi-
ments should hereafter be so organ
lied that in event of actual volunteer
ing for service the colonel should fall
back to lieutenant colonel and the
president have the power to appoint
as regimental commander some we'll
known and capable West Point trained
officer. With some such arrangement
he thought in the late war every regi-
ment would have been sent to the
front Immediately and enough men
would have been poured into the Phil
ippines to put down the rebellion as
soon as it arose. AS it was, army Off
GERS high in command naturally cast
an eye over the state troops and Sc
lected those commands that were be-
lieved to have the most efficient col
onels. 1t was a guess, he said, but in
every case the colonies proved their
ability.
Governor Shaw left for home after
the reception.
Silav's Welcoming Speech.
In his speech of welcome to the Off
GERS and men of the Fifty-first Iowa,
Governor Shaw said:
Officers and men If the Fifty-first
Iowa regiment: Iowa extends official
greeting to her brave boys who have
upheld so nobly the honor of the ma
ton and the reputation of the state.
Thirty-siX hours from the time of the
presidents first call for troops saw the
Iowa National guard modified at
Camp Mckinley. From that time to
this not man has proven recreant;
not regiment has asked to be mus
tered out or to be released from any
duty.
Neither have they complained Of
any order In camp, in trenches and in
battle the Iowans have distinguished
themselves. The Iowa regiments, one
and all, have honored the state by their
gentlemanly bearing and soldierlike
conduct and have helped to keep the
record of the American citizen soldier
Stainless in the eyes of the world. You
have been permitted to participate in
the military achievements of your
nountry's history. The service you have
rendered the other organizations from
Eour state is boundless. They all honor
you. Each in it's place and in strictest
obedience did the regiments do their
duty and do it well. Your services were
purely voluntary and were rendered
after being fully advised of the terms
of your enlistment and the cause in
which you were to be employed.
by the terms of enlistment you
were entitled to be mustered out when
the peace treaty was ratified, but let it
be forever known that neither the
regiment as such nor the officers and
men ever asked to be discharged.
at is to your lasting credit that you
pre- the last of the original volunteer
army to be mustered out. The service
which you have more recently rem
dered have been as honorable as that
for which you at first enrolled your
names. The sixteen engagements with
the treacherous insurgents will bear
comparison, both as to purpose and
justification, with the more dazzling
achievements in Manila bay, Mt San
tiago and San Juan. The flag you fol-
lowed is the flag Dewey carried ana :.
casts no pail under the sky ON any
people.
at is not more honorable to emanci-
pate from the legal yet tyrannous
power of Spain than from the barbar-
Gus usurpers of Aguinaldo. Human
freedom cannot prosper under the flag
of either, nor can it ever suffer under
the stars and stripes, and now you
are about to return to the state that
sent you forth amid her tears, that for
all these months has followed you with
her prayers; she now extends to you
the glad hand of welcome. God bless
you, boys!
But there are vacant chairs; there
are bereaved homes, and there are bro
ken hearts. But these are the universal
price of great achievements. There has
been no birth of freedom without pain
and no remission without Calvaries.
THE sympathy of state and nation
and remembrance of self-sacrificing
service is all the balm it is permitted
me to offer. You will now return to
the vocations of peace. God bless you
wherever the duties of civil life NAV