Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-07
Tells of the Montana Regl-
ment'S Work
IN THE PHILIPPINE WAR
Boys Did Fairly Well as They Soon
Became Expert Forgers- Anti
Imperialists Scored.

volunteers arrived in the city yesterday
and was present at the funeral OF the
late Corporal Jno. ]. Campbell OF co. NJ
which was held at st. Pauls Cathoic
church. Later in the day he was at the
Montana where officers and men OF 90.
K and Co. NJ called n paid their re-
spect to the chaplain as they all call
him. Rev. Stull is a popular man IN
Montana, but he is still a more popular
man among the volunteers. He addresses
Captain Hallahan as john Captain
Dillon as Tom" Captain FREEMAN az
"Phil' and Captain Kelly as "Myles'
and these officers and Chaplain Stun en-
ioyed a meeting as the hotel during the
afternoon. Many pleasant "reminiscences
were spoken of with considerable mirth.
In the evening he spoke at the NJ. E.
church on the Montana regiment and
their work in the Philippines" He be-
gan with their enlistment describing
their army life on land an sea.
At Honolulu the first sight that glad
ened their eyes was the stars and
stripes floating proudly from the flag
staff, and they knew that they were still
in American territory.
In the harbor of Manila they saw the
Spanish fleet that Admiral Dewey had
rocked in the cradle of the deep.
In garrison they had various quarters;
some were in a monastery. others In a
cathedral, while the speaker was accom-
modated in a monastery.
The Montana soldier, he said, was a
good forager, and it was not long be-
fore the boys were doing fairly we'll.
They were good marchers after the
things needful, but the speaker desired
to brand as an infamous lie the report
that had gone forth that the American
soldier had desecrated the churhces. A
church was always respected, and the
American soldier never entered a
church in other spirit than that Of rev.
erence. On the contrary, the speaker
affirmed that he had seen places of
wol ship where the lead pipes for the
organ had been cut away to be trans
formed into bullets that were after
wards discharged at the long, thin line Of
blue.
A visit was also paid to Aguinaldo and
the arrogance and impudence of he Fill
Pine leader the speaker dilated upon at
length. Aguinaldo had thanked the
speaker and the other American officers
who had called to pay their respects for
the courtesy shown, but Aguinaldo had
said he preferred to enjoy the i%ndepend-
ence that he had already gained.
He scored Atkinson and other sO-called
anii-imperialists and said that it was a
disgrace to American manhood that such
sentiments should be uttered when the
soldiers in the TRENCHES were giving up
their life blood for the flag.
Each day the natives We're becoming
more insolent, n constantly hurled
maledictions at the soldiers. This senti-
ment, he claimed, was fostered by re-
ports cabled from this country. The
natural outcome of these daily insults
were a few street scraps, and in none
of these affairs did the American soldier
come out second best. When, on Feb.
4, the bugle sounded the call to arms and
battle ensued then the world had an op-
portunity to Judge Of the metal of the
American soldier.
At Caloocan they went forward with
splendid bravery, and when the towr
was taken it was Casey-the inimitable
Casey of Anaconda-who. few the first
flag over the captured rebel stronghold
wherever the blood of an American
soldier has enriched the soil hat sol
by divine right belongs to our country
and should ever be held"