, 1900-09-24

wore the blue. | trust also there ar,
men who wore the gray, for their son,
1898 the flag of our country was one,
more unfurled on the field of battle
(Applause.) Honor to the men whC
wore the blue and who fought to a fin
.sh the greatest of civil wars, and pre-
also to the men who wore the gray
served forever the republic, and honor
who fought against the Union, but who
fought with the courage that only
came from the most sincere devotion
to the cause they deemed right"
He then appealed to his fellow coun
trymen not to shirk from the task
their fathers had set for them. There
was no place for cowardice or timidity
in this present stage of the nations
advance. The interest of one part of
the country is the interest of every
other part, he said, west. east, north
and south are all bould together.
Not Afraid.
And now, my fellow-countrymen,
here at the beginning of a new cen.
fury, at the beginning OF a new Centu-
ry hat will see greater changes than
any the world has yet seen, We have
to decide for ourselves whether his
nation, which has gone so far forward
in the century that has passed, is to
strive still further forward, or is to
halt, to shrink IN craven fear from the
past and to take it's place outside the
arena in the great world powers, striv-
ing for the supremacy of the world:
not necessarily the supremacy of arms
i pray it may never come to that
test, but that if it should ever come
this people may arise to the need as
this country ose in 81, as we were
ready to rise two years ago. only that
a great task lies before us; the task
of bringing liberty, orderly liberty to
the world, of teaching the world that
freedom can be compined with law,
with all that goes with law. Let us
remember vel that a ION of oratory
is not worth a pound OF action; that
a ton of promise is worse than wasted
if it is no followed by a sufficient
quantity of performance. tApplause.)"
He said we had heard a great deal
about liberty for the Filipinos. They
should have it. he was sure.
Their Measure Of Liberty.
They shall have a measure of lib
erty,' he said, 'of which they have
been in absolute ignorance throughout
the ages; they shall have such liberty
AS they never could know under the
tyraInical and bloodtht.sty oligarchy
of their own brother. They shall have
liberty, but they shall have it under
the American flag. (Great applause.)
We would be false not only to our.
selves, but to the islanders; We would
be false to the people o fthe Philippine
islands if we were now to shirk our
duty to turn the islands over that the
people might work their wicked will
one upon another; hat anarchy might
grow ever o profuse, ever more
bloody, until some stronger nation,
some other great civilized power step
ped in to do the work that we had
shown ourselves too weak toe timid to
perform.
The National Destiny.
Il ask that our people set about
working out our national destiny, |
ask that each man remember not only
his own welfare, not only the welfare
of those dependent upon him; that
each woman remember not merely the
welfare of her husband and children,
but the fact that to belong to a great
nation is the greatest of gifts for each
man and each woman in it.. Be it ever
before Il eyes that we can do the
giant task before us, not by failing to
iSaiiE' "hae Nv taoh 10, Slii lSSo ny
shrinking from it when we have real
lied it, but by approaching it in a sane
and sober spirit, as each man or wo,
man will approach the deepest and
most serious duties of life.
What Votes Will Mean.
Il ask hat we make the national
ideal, and that we take the first step
toward achieving it this year. Let us
show by our actions; let you show by
your votes this November that you will
not mar the material well-being to
which this country has attained; that
you compare the promises and the per.
Torrance of the last four years on the
one side, with the prophecy of disas.
ter which has so signally failed on the
other; that you vote to keep that ma,
terial prosperity which stands at the
foundation of well-being.
The special train left Laramie for
Cheyenne at 5 O'Clock and there
was a large crowd at the depot to see
the governor off.
CROWD AT RAWLINs.