Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-10-26

unth the government they were serv-
Ing could supply a new army IN their
Places to lift up and carry forward that
sacred banner"
he Spoke at Madison.
AT Madison, S. d., several thousand
farmers and inhabitants gathered to
greet President Mckinley. He said:
L feel like congratulating you on the
general prosperous condition of the
country. Your government, Is a govern
ment, is doing well. There are no def
iclts In the treasury. There is a good
round balance of more than S256, N00,-
O0O OF gold in the treasury belonging to
the government, and we are collecting
sl,600,0OO every working day of the
month. Last year, when congress yo-
ted that we should go TO war, we bor-
roWed $500, 100000. We offered the
n OF the government to the people
M there were fourteen hundred mil
lion dollars subscribed when there
were only S2O0, 000, 600 needed.
mot only, my fellow citizens, Is the
business of the government prosperous
but the enterprises of the people are
also prosperous. Fear las given place
W NOAiNi1ilNC. SOuStC' H1llOu anu NC
spair have given place to faith and
courage and the voice OF calamity is
no longer heard in the land, and the or
ator OF distress and discomfort is out of
a job.
THE people are employed and are
happy. They are proud of their institu-
tions and the exhibition of the love for
country displayed in the last eighteen
months.
When the call for 200, 900 troops was
issued there were more than a million
and a half of men offered, eager and
ready to go TO fight the battles for Su-
manity and maintain the public honor.
End some of your boys are coming
back here tonight. 1t is like apologize
ing to the fathers and mothers for the
privilege which | enjoyed of seeing
them first. The proudest, the most
cherished, the most glorious reflection
they have is that they did not come un-
til the government of the United States
had supplied their places with new
troops"
The Egan Ovation.
At Egan, s. D., TO school children and
citizens, President Mckinley said:
1--WE, as a .eople, never go to war
because we love war. Our chief glory
is not in the triumph Of arms, but in the
triumphs of peace. We love peace, we
abhor war. We have the smallest
standing army OF any considerable la
ton of the world. With a population
of more than seventy-six millions, the
regular army of the United States on a
peace footing, consists of 27, DOC troops.
On the national shield which these boys
and girls know all about are to be
found. the olive branch and the arrows
indicating our power in war and in
peace; but be 1t said to the glory of the
American nation that we never have
driven the arrows from their CULVER un-
til We have rendered to our adversary
the olive branch of peace.
"And we are at peace row with all
the nations of the world. We have a
little insurrection in the Philippines,
which, / trust, will be promptly sup
pressed"
His Sioux Falls Address.
At Sioux Falls the president spoke
to about 5000 people as follows:
Fellow Citizens: We very deeply
regret that we were not able to reach
this city at the appointed time. The
reason is in the fact that the South
Dakota volunteers came in late at
Aberdeen, and it is the only time in
the history of that regiment that 1t
was ever late. Great cheering). 1t
was never behind time in any opa of
the more than thirty engagements
which 1t had in the island Of Luzon.
More cheering).
my fellow citizens, when war is in
augurated, those who inaugurate us
ually have a fixed and definite purpose.
You can have a purpose at the begin
ming, but nobody can tell the end of a
war. Man proposes; God disposes.
The civil war was waged for the pur-
pose or restoring the union. There
was no thought in the mind of Mr..
Liacoln or his cabinet, or Of congress
what would be the final result of the
great civil struggle. Mr.. Lincoln was
in the habit of saying that he would
save the union with slavery or he
would save it without slavery. He
could not save it with slavery, so he
issued his immortal proclamation of
liberty. That was not the purpose of
for congress III 1861 had w.
leu Ds oil ulliOoL ulIdhiA4Ouo NoNC NhdI
the war should lease when the union
was restored with all the rights, bigo-
tries and privileges and prerogatives
Of the southern states undisturbed. So
my fellow citizens, when the war with
Spain commenced, 1t commenced to
relieve the Cuban people of an OPP
preston under which they had suffer-
cd for years. Nobody at that moment
had ever thought either of Porto Rico
OF the Philippines. We went tn war
with Spain in the interest of humani-
ty, of civilization, and to give justice
to the oppressed people of Cuba.
Dewey Could Net Leave.
when war was declared we put our
ships in front of the harbor of Ha-
vana and Santiago. We sent Dewey's
ships from Hong Kong to Manila and
directed him TO destroy or capture the
Spanish feet in those waters, and he
did it. tremendous applause and
cheeripg). And our fleet at Santiago
sunk the Spanish ships in that water.
More cheering). And when, my fell
low citizens, Dewey destroyed the
Spanish fleet at Manila, he was master
of the situation. He could not have
gone away without dishonor IL he had
been disposed to so do, which he was
not. (Cheefing).