Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-05
LAUD HEROES DEAD
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PAYS
TRIBUTE AT ARLINGTON.
OUR POLICY IN PACIFIC
Executive Says 1t Should be Broad
and Statesmanlike-Mus Gets
Fine Bronze Statue of President
Mckinley Memorial Exercises
Held at Grants Tomb on Hudson.

Washington, May 31.-President
Roosevelt was the principal orator at
the memorial exercises in Arlington
cemetery yesterday, delivering a long
and eloquent address. As he arose he
was greeted with cheers and the plau-
dts of the immense Audience which
stretched far outside the limits of the
ampAitheater. His remarks were
given the closest attention and he was
frequently interrupted by bursts of
applause. The applause accorded him
as he concluded was loud and continu-
Gus and as he took his seat some one
in the crowd cried out: Three
cheers for our brave president!
whereupon mighty shout went up
from the thousands who had crowded
into every available space to hear
him.
He touched on many subjects of
public interest and in conclusion
said:
"Nor, while fully acknowledging our
duties to others, need we forget our
duty to our own country. The Pacific
lantic; as we grow in power and pros
perity so our interests will grow in
that faIthest west which is the imme-
mortal east. The shadow of our des
tiny has already reached to the shores
of Asia. The might of our people al
ready looms large against the world
horizon; and it will loom ever larger
y INV No ctnt0 hnc
a right to neglect the interests when
are important to all our people, hut
which are of most importance to those
of our peple who have built populcus
and thriving states on the western
slope of our continent.
This should no more be a party
question than the war for the union
should have been party question.
At this moment the man in highest
Office in the Philippine islands is the
e-governor, Gen. Luke Wright CT
Tennessee, who gallantly wore the
gray in the civil war and who is now
working hand in hand with the head
of our army in the Philippines, Adna
Chaffee, who in the civil war gallantly
wore the blue. Those two, and the
men under them, from the north and
from the south, in civil life and in
military life, as teachers, as admins
traitors, as soldiers, are laboring might
lily for us who live at home. Here And
there black sheep are to be founl
among them; but taken as whole
they represent as high a standard ri
public service as this country has ever
seen. They are doing a great wo"A
for civilization, a great work for the
horor and lie interest of this nation,
and above all for the welfare of the in
habitants of the Philippine islands.
All honor to them, and shame, thrice
shame, to us if we fail to uphold their
hand!"
Muskegon, Mich, May 31.-One of
the grandest and most impressive me-
mortal day ceremonies ever carried
and including the unwilling Of a
bronze statue of the late President
Mckinley yesterday. The massive
granite monument, together with
bronze figure of the martyred presi-
dent, is a gift to the public schools of
Muskegon by Charles H. Hackley,
millionaire lumberman of this city,
and cost 100000. A magnificent pa
rade preceded the unveiling comprised
of military and civic societies. On
stand near the monument were Gov.
Bliss and staff and Charles H. Me
haus, the sculptor The Grafton was
delivered by Clarence w. Sisson.
A. Grants Tomb.
New York, May 31.-Memorial SER
vices were held yesterday afternoon
at Gen. Grants tomb in the presence
of 5000 people. Exercises were con-
Quoted by the U. S. Grant post of
Brooklyn. Judge Thomas G. Jones of
the United States district court of AL
ALBANIA delivered an grafton. Presi-
dent Roosevelt sent wreath of roses
and the Chinese minister, WI Ting
Fang, a bed of roses.