Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-26
TWO SPEECHES IN BOSTON
President Addresses War Veterans
and Press Clubs League.

On President Roosevelt's return to Bos-
ton from Cambridge last evening he was
escorted to the Algonquin Club house, where
banquet was given in his honor by the
cemmandery of Massachusetts Naval and
Military Order Of the Spanish-Am
War. The guests. besides the President
We're Governor w. Murray Crane. Mayor
Patrick A. Collins, John D. Long, Rear Ad-
mral Mortimer l.. Johnson. L. S. NJ, and
Col. John L. Tiernon. U. S. A. Brigadier
General Curtis Guild was POSTMASTER, and
he proposed a toast to the President:
In response, the President said:
Mr. Toastmaster, Mr.. Chairman and
comrades: L have special right Of COM
radeship with the men Of the I'd and the
9TH, who were down at Santiago where l
served also. Some of your number here to-
night fought in the great war. You, Of
course. saw the real fighting. the days that
tried mems souls. All the chance that came
to us was to show that we were willing
and anxious to try to do our duty in a way
not to make the older feel that the younger
generation had been unworthy Of it. Gap
plause)
Really, this is not exactly the audience
to which 1 would like to say one or two
OF the things 1 am going to say, because I
am sure L have got you with me- There is
considerable Incorporate talk about the
army in the Philippines. That army is
composed of exactly such men as those
l see here tonight. Some of you went to
Philippines, and the regulars whom I ioin
with you in greeting tonight here have
served simply wherever they happened to
be sent. 1t is exactly the same army that
went TO Santiago that went to Porto Rico
that stayed in Chickamauga because IT
was its duty to stay there, and If praised
or blamed. it must stand as our represen-
tatlve, and We share the praise or the blame
with it.
Soldiers Tortured to Death.
within the last fortnight there has
been an appalling outrage committed in
the Philippine Islands. Four men were
captured, and after being kept for little
whhe,, were put to death by torture. You
have heard very little of it, and the reason
| is because those four men wore the United
| States uniform. For that deed il it is pos
! sible to exact punishment, punishment will
De eXacted. cloud applause and waving of
handkerchiefs) You know that anv in
fringement of the laws of war will not he
tolerated for moment, and that any man
wearing our uniform who discredits it by
l. torture shall not be saved from punishment
by any record of excellence in the mas.
| But let the other side of the case be kept i'm
view also. Let it be remembered that of
/ all forms of cruelty the worst is the weak
ness which hesitates to use just a proper
severity when just a proper severity Is
needed Cloud applause.)
Peace has almost come in the Philip
pines. We have trouble with the unciyil-
| lied tribes in small part of the archipela-
| go, but outside of that peace has almost
come because the officers and enlisted men
wearing the national uniform bravely, quiz
city, uncomplainingly and with an iron
resolution have gone about their duty
needing the foe In front as long as they
Needed the advancement of those who
| Should be behind. The army has gone for
ward until now throughout the Philippine
| Islands there Is condition of greater
| peace than has obtained In them from the
/ time when the keels of the Spanish ships
| first furrowed the waters of Manila bay
(Applause) And more than that, remen-