The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-30
GarIands for the Graves of those Who Have Gone.

has been definitely and finally put down.
( there the individual Filipino already en-
JOYS such freedom, such personal liberty,
under our rule, as he could never even
cream o. under the rule OF an lnde-
pendent Aguinaldian oligarchy,
ART OF F-GOVERNAENT-
The slowly-iearned and difficult art of
self-government, an art which our people
nave taught themselves by the labor of
thousand years, can not be grasped IN a
day by a people only just emerging from
conditions of life which our ancestors left
tory dawned. We believe that we can
/ rapidly teach the people of the Philippine
! islands not only how to enjoy but how to
make good use of their freedom; and with
/ their growing knowledge their growth in
I self-gOVernment shall keen steady pace
pacity for real freedom by their power of
/ self-gove vernment then and rot till then
/ they are TO exist independently of us or
/ shin and interest. When that dav win.
I come it is not in human wisdom now to
! tOreteA- All that we can say with Ger
tainty is that it would be put back an
to the cOunsels Of unmanly weakness and
( turn loose the islands, to see our victor
/ our betrayed friends, and shed the blood
of the most humane. the most enlight-
eneu, the most peaceIui, tne WlseSt ana
the best OF their own number-for these
I are the classes VINO have already learned
to welcome our rule.
( Nor, while fully acknowledging our
duties TO others, need we forget our duty
! to our own country The Pacific sea-
board is as much to US as the Atlantic,
as we grow in power and prosperity so
our interests viii grow in that farthest
west which is the immemorial east. The
shadow of destiny has already
reached to the shore of Asia. The might
of our people already looms large against
the WOrld-horizol; and it will loom ever
larger as the years go by. No statesman
has a right to neglect the interests of
! our people in the Pacific; interests which
are important to all our people but
! which are Of most Importance 70 those
q
thriving states on the western slope of
our continent.
ton than the war for the Union should
have been a party question. At this mo-
the Philippine islands is the vice gov
ernor, General Luke Wright of Tennes-
see. 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
Civil war galantly wore the blue Those
two and the men under them, from the
and in military life as teachers, as ad-
ministrators, as soldiers. are laboring
nightly for US who live at home. Here
and there black sneep are to be found
! among them; but taken whole they
represent as high standard of public
service as this country has ever seen.
They are doing a great work for civiiza-
ton. great work for the honor and the
interest of this nation and above all. for
the welfare of the inhabitants of the
Philippine islands. All honor to them:
and shame thrice shame to US if we fail
to uphold their handsl
Gen. Ell Terrence, commandment
chief of the G. A R, followed the presi-
dent with a few remarks and the ser
vices were brought to a close by the
playing of America" and benedictior
: by Henry S. Stevens, department chap
lain.
Immediately after the memorial exer-
cises at the amphitheatre the monument
erected to the memory of Col Edgal
O'COnnor of the Second Wisconsin regi-
2 ment was unveiled in the presence of Z
number of his comrades The address
/ of the Occa asiOn was delivered by Repre-
r senta tive John J. Jenkins of Wisconsin
p At Soldiers Home at Battle GrOuni
t cemetery, near the site of old Fort Stew
I | ems and at St Eliza beth's. where liz
T. / countless numbers of veterans who los
their reason as {. result of military ser
vice and who were buried in the asylum
: grounds and at other cemeteries apprO
t ! pirate services were held. Secretar.
Shaw delivered the grafton at BATH
Ground cemetery. while his assistant
! II. A Allies, made the address at St
r Eliza beth's. Representative Washing
ton Gardner of New Jersey was tn
e principal speaker at the National ceme
p terry. Soldiers Home, where. too, ther
was an immense gathering of comrade
4 and relatives and friends of decease'
/ soldiers
4 FRENCH PARTY AT NEWPORT.
q Newport, r. l., May 30.-Having hon
n ored in Washington the memory o
= the Count de ROchambeau. the mem
= berS Of the French mission came L
q Newport today to offer a tribute tC tn
: memory of the Chevalier de Tornay, tn
q ! commander OF th2 fleet of war vessel
e which conveyed the Rochambeau sol
Il diers to Newport, their landing place
The tribute of France to its naval her
: was paid by placing upon the tomb o
y de Tornay in Trinity church yard,
=, wreath of laurel sent by President Lou
l. bet.
# Newport's streets bore the garb O
T. Memorial day but the colors of tn
= French republic were mingled with tn
p An erican emblem. Through the street
II the members of the French missio
: We're escorted by a large body of sail
e ors, marines and soldiers to take par
1t in the various features of the program
d When the distinguished foreigners al
y rived at the railroad station here fror
New York. shortly before o'clOcl
h they were received by Governor Kim
h ball with his staff, the mayor, the mem
r bers Of the city council and other spe
n / cial committees. Outside the static