Milford chronicle., 1902-06-06
DEFENDS THU ARMY
President Roosevelt's Address to
Veterans at Arlington.
PHILIPPINE WARFARE HUMANE
He Deplored crueIties and Said the
Nations Defenders Have Their De-
famers Today As They Had In the
Civil War.

srs Quay AS they Had In the /
Civil War.
Washington, May S1.-Tae address
OF President Roosevelt at the memorial
exercises in Arlington yesterday was
the most important deliverance of the
kind in many years. The patriotic
spirit of the occasion furnished him a
timely text for the expression of his
sentiments towards the country's de-
tenders of today as well as those of a !
generation ago.
The address was almost wholly de-
voted to a vigorous defense of the
United States army in the Philippines,
and partook Of the nature of a presi-
Dental message to the people on sub
ject now engrossing their attention and
provoking acrimonious discussion in
the halls of congress. The president
said:
1T is a good custom for our country
to have certain solemn holidays in
commemoration of our greatest men
and of the greatest crisises in our his.
tory. There should be but few such
holidays. To increase their number
is to cheaper them. Washington and
Lincoln-the man who did most to
found the Union, and the man who did
most to preserve it-stand head and
shoulders above all ether public men.
and have by common consent won the
right to this pre-eminence.
You whom address today and your
comrades who wore the blue beside
you in the perilous years during which
strong, sad patient Lincoln bore the
crushing load of national leadership,
performed the one feat the failure to
perform which would have meant de-
struction to everything which makes
the name America a symbol of hope
among the nations of mankind. You
left us a reunited country.
The army of the United States to-
day is carrying to completion a small,
but trying and difficult war, in which
is involved not only the honor of the
flag, but the triumph of civilization
over the black chaos of savagery and
barbarism.
"The rules of warfare which have
been promulgated by the war depart
ment and accepted as the basis of
conduct by our troops in the field are
the rules laid down by Abraham Lin
coin when you, my hearers were fight
ing for the Union. These rules pro-
vide, of course, for the just severity
necessary in war. But all cruel
ty is forbidden, and all Larshness be-
] yOnd what is called for by need. Our
! enemies in the Philippines have not
merely violated every rule of war, but
have made of these violations their
only method of carrying on the war.
We would have been justified by Abra-
] ham Lincoln's rules of war in infinitely
| greater severity than has been shown.
| The fact really is that our warfare in
the Philippines has been carried on
with singular humanity. For every act
of cruelty by our men there have been
! innumerable acts of fOrbearance, mag
nanimity and generous kindness. These
are the qualities which have character
lied the war as a whole. The cruelties
have been wholly exceptional on our
part The guilty are to be punished;
but in furnishing them, let those who
sit at ease at home, who walk deli
cately and live in the soft places of
the earth, remember also to do them
common justice. Let not the effortless
and the interrupted rail overmuch al
strong men who with blood and sweat
face years of toll and days and nights
of agony, and at need lay down their
lives in remote tTopic jungles to bring
the light of civilization into the worlds
dark places. The warfare that has ex.
tended the boundaries of civilization
at the expense of barbarism and say
agery has been for centuries one of the
most potent factors in the progress Of
humanity.
1T behOoves us to keep a vigilant
watch to prevent these abuses and tt
punish those who commit them; but
if because of them we finch from fin.
ishing the task on which we have en-.
tered, we show ourselves cravens anC
weaklings, unworthy of the sires from
whose loins we sprang. There were
abuses and to spare in the Civil War
Your false friends then called Gran
butcher and spoke of you who are
: listening to me as mercenaries, a.
: Lincoln's hirelings.' Abraham Lincoln
was singled out for especial attack be-
cause of his spirit of barbarous fe
rocity.' Verify, these men who thu,
foully slandered you have their heir,
. today in those who traduce our armie,
d in the Philippines, who fix their eve,
S on individual deeds of wrong so keen
$ ly that at last they become blind to tn,
E great work of peace and freedom tina
l. has already been accomplished
"This should no more be a part,
question than the war for the Uniol
}. should have been a party question. A
, this moment the man in highest ofic
: in the Philippine Islands is the vic
: governor, General Luke Wright. q
a Tennessee, who calamity wore tn
S gray in the Civil War, and who is nov
s working hand-in-hand with the hea,
e of our army in the Philippines. Adm
o Chaffee, who in the Civil War gallant
e ly wore the blue These two, and tn
Q men under them, from the north an
from the south, in civil life and in mill
tary life as teachers. as administra
tors, as soldiers, are laboring mightil
for us who live at home. All honor t
5 them; and shame, thrice shame, to u
! If we fail to uphold their hands!"
r. MINE OFFICIAL BEATEN
: Trouble at Pittston Caused BY Polio
mems Attack On Boy.
e Pittston, Pa, June 4-John William
superintendent of the Erie Coal Coz
a. pany, was attacked by strikers syl
D. pathizers yesterday morning and ba
ze ly beaten. The trouble grew out
K the action of several coal and iron I
ct lice, who attacked a 10-year-old b.
I'd because he called them "scabs." T
of boy was seriously injured, and t
in men soon gathered about the collie
nv and attacked the deputies. The sup'
intendent is injured, but will not lea
the colliery and is without medic
aid. All physicians of the city refu
ne to enter the works or have anythi
a to do with non-uniOn men.
e "
While we delight in making our Prescripti
j Department all that public could wish, with
: pLrest drugs and strictest accuracy, we take
less pride in our proprietary stock. We sp
- r..
ere patton and biliousness embodied in Ramo
lit Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets. It has been
mt propriatey STYLED the 'mild power theory" q