Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-20

talk about railroads. aDuul Aheh D
oppressive and o~verbearing and unjust.
Now my friends is it o good thing TO nave
railroads. you never hear people II
haven't got a railroad talk that way. II
they want a mill or a factory or a railroad
they must have h railroad hrst,
they never talk that way You never
hear a young married couple talk apo't
how they are going 10 spank the hrst
baby. daughter and cheers
Four years ago YOU were in the midst OF
hard times. We told you then that If the
republican party was put in power and
You gave them a chance TO administer
this government. they would enact pro-
per tariff laws and bring back prosperity
to the country. That has come 10 pass.
You have a protective tariff. We have re-
yived the industry of this country. We
have opened the mills and factories and
given employment TO the iaboring men.
tcheers and applause9 They have given
YOU abundant prosperity. The changes
for the better brought about in four short
years of republican rule are wonderful,
and were never known in the history of
any nation before. We said that the re-
publican party would be able 10 start the
INDUSTRIES Oh ms country anu DIAHS pdNh
prosperity, and it came to pass.
Now. my friends. about the only ques-
tion in this campaign which the demo
Gratis mention seriously, is about Agui-
naldo and h Philippine Islands. In
talking on Ia question. ii comes down
TO practically this: VIII you be willing
to exchange the good times and prosper
ity that the republican party has given
for AguinaIdo and the Filipino army
he has got in the swamp. But the rebel
lion is pretty near suppressed, and if it
were not for the aid and assistance they
get from the opposition, it would be over
now. tappianse) Do you know that when
Bryan Is showed uuder-when the cleo
ton is over they viii all come into camp,
the boys will lay down their arms and
they will become peaceful law-abiding
people of those islands. Mr.. Bryan work
ed in favor of ratifying the treaty by
which we got hose islands, by which we
paid SD.O0,OD for them. We got a deed
for them and they are ours just as much
as Alaska is ours or Florida or New Mex
leo. We have as much right to hoist our
flag there as in any other part of the u. 5.
lapplauseJ We are suprcssing the insur-
rection, for it is the full purpose of the
United States to assert the authority of the
United States first, and next to give to
this people a good stable and just form of
government. Now, the preposterousness
of telling us that we are not competent of
a good stable government. Isn't it ridi-
culous! We ought to be born over and
learn how. Its like saying that we are
not competent TO give the Indians a good
l,% A..-.. n
Indian Chiefs out on the Reservation
that they know more about how to
govern a country than we do. They say
look at the standing army we shall
have, 1t is a pretty good little standing
army-the Republican standing army.
Cheers and applause.) Let me take you
back to the days of the great civil war.
Did you ever see an American soldier
who wore the blue, who served in the
great war. who came back an "imperi-
~ialist"! Who was a menace and a danger
to his country No. my friends. from the
days of Valley Forge down TO the present
time. the American soldier has, never
been disioyai to his flag or to his country,
eth er in time of peace or i'm time of war.
When the boys of the First South Dakotn
came home from the Philippines you
good people of South Dakota met them at
San Francisco You welcomed them
these imperialists-those American sol
diers. They came back in your midst and
it doesn't look as If you were afraid of a
~diminution of your liberties. CApplause
and cries of Il guess not.f1 Have you
ever that they became inn
perialists: cheers aud cries of mol
Ask them how the climate and surround
ings of Manila and the stands acts: Ask
them if it makes them 'imperialistsrr
Does it boys! cheers and cries of Not
much"9 My friends you have a right to
be proud of the First Regiment I'm the
Philippine islands. We have men in our
midst who try TO belittle them. Ii YVES
one of the mos. loyal, a truest regiments
that carried the flag into the heart OF the
heart of the enemies country. (cheers and
~applause) 1t is your duty, every one of
you, to p~erpetuate and sustain the work
your brave soldiers accomplished in the
Philippine Islands, and also the work thu
our boys are doing and will do there now.
ny good friends don't ever exchange the
good republican prosperity for A~guinaIdo,
and his Tagal Chiefs. CHEERS and ap-
plause.)
During all the time Senator Nelson
was speaking. Governor Roosevelt was
kept busy shaking hands with a number
who pressed forward and only desisted
when it commenced to interfere with the
speaker. A call went up for Col. Grigsby
and the old vet was forced to appear, but
had only time for one sentence when the
signal for departure was given. The
train pulled out at $40.
NOTES.
Gov. Roosevelt laughingly called The
attention of the party to the "Hello
Teddy" on the depot. In fact, nothing
escaped his observation.
Senator Nelson caught the crowd with
his easy ofhand talk.
Among the notables on the train were
Coy. Herried, Congressman Burke, Hon.
T. W. Martin, Chairman Crane, Capt.
Seth Bullock.
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