The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-21

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statement of a Southerner and a Demo-
erat, man who is on the ground writing
to a Southerner. No juster and more terri
bic arraignment of a group Of politicians
was ever made. Mr.. Bryan and his sup
porters and the trainers of the Kansas City
platform primarily responsible for the
continuance of bloodshed in the Islands.
IL has been many long year since We have
seen in America group of political lead
by all right thinking men,
WALKING ABOUT IN IDLENESS.
'And Mr.. Bryan says that it is objec-
tionable to have a hundred thousand SOL
diers walking about in idleness.' said the
speaker in conclusion. walking about in
idleness, indeed, 1 would that the critic
who makes that remark could follow one
of the divisions of our army as it walks in
idleness through the mud of tropic swamps,
knee deep with slime. bleeding all day
long. weary, hungry. fever-racked, but
keeping on because they are men and not
their critics. Our little army? Our little
army fighting the unseen foe in the thick
cts of Luzon, fighting against odds, seeing
its best and its bravest die. smitten down
by bullets which, in the sad prophetic
words of Lawton might as well be aimed
by those Americans at home who incite
the insurgents to war against us. Lawton
Liscum no longer walk I'm idleness. The
mold is yet green on the graves OF those
in the Philippines who no longer walk in
idleness, because they have ended their
lives of patient and loyal endeavor by
heroic death; and they might at least be
insured from immunity from SANDER alike
TO the valiant dead and the no less valiant
living.
dren cried TO us from China; when we were
called to our duty, not merely as Amer
leans, but civilized and Christian beings,
we'll it was for us that we had that little
army, against which some men sneer.
Chaffee's force did not walk in idleness
as it tramped forward through the flooded
rice fields. men dropping by bullets and
by sunstroke as the army plowed its way,
by Tesolute determination, on and on until
the boy Titus sprang from the ranks and
planted on the walls of immemorial
despotism the flag that told of rescue and
liberty for the hunted women and chill
dren in terror of their lives, in terror of
torture worse than death, as they lay in
the walls of our legation at Picking
mo man worthy the name of American
looks upon our gallant little army with
aught save love for the brave men who
risked their lives that you and /, my
brothers here, may hold our heads high, be-
cause we are American citizens. And l ap-
peal to you to see TO that this great Repub-
lie, appeal to you to see to IL that We do
not lose the material prosperity to which
we have attained; that We do not lose that
OFueFly NDerty unQer the laws winch Is the
proudest heritage of freemen, and finally,
on the threshold OF new century, see that
this great Nation declares the old American
doctrine-the doctrine that where the flag
once has been hoisted 1t shall never be
hauled down.
This ended Governor Roosevelts speech
inside the hall. where he was followed by
Col Curtis Guild and Judge Alden, of Mas
sachusetts, w. G. Amos, of Denver, and
Charles X. Schirm, of this city. candidate
for Congress in the Fourth district. On the
outside of the hall the Governor made a
brief speech TO his hearers, appealing to
them TO uphold the honor of the flag and to
ald In continuing the present prosperity of
the country. after which he drove to the
depot and left on the Has p. m. train on the
Pennsylvania Railway for New York.