Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-07-16
HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters.

enemy our soldiers had to encounter, a more deadly foe in the poison of soil, of atmosphere, and of climate.
 Unfortunately this war bred an other warl the Cuban campaign had a sequel in the war in the Philippines. Again we find our army herolcally fighting not only a human foe, but contending with climatic and ele- mental adversaries far more fatal.
 The people of the United States hardly realize the stupendous dith- culties and obstacles that our army of braves had to overcome. They had to fight not only one race. but numerous races summed up under the name of the Filipinos, the most obstinate, most warlike, most treach- erous, and most cruel people on the face of the globe: people that Tor downright cussedness (you see, ] am rapidly westernizing) could make a man swear with every breath of Filipino air he breathed. You'll bear me out in that, won't you, general7 The general mods with a knowing smile. Beaten in open bat tie they masquerade as amigos, they break up in numerous bands of guerrillas and Iadrones. And now follows one of the most wearing and distressing guerrilla campaigns known in modern times. It is no exaggera- ton to state that no other army in the world would have surmounted the difficulties with such dash and tireless energy in so few years, con sidering the millions of the popula- tion scattered over thousands of islands, and the nature of both land and people, for all European military critics agree that we have the best raw material from which to mould soldiers, of all the civilized nations. They rightly attribute this to the in telligence inborn in every American, to the power of the initiative and the inventive. the power to act, if needs be, on the spur of the moment; with out depending upon any others directive, the gift of knowing how tc help yourself if emergency so re- quires, and how to adopt the right measure at a sudden call, without having to wait for orders from head quarters. It was this war that gave one man more than the thousands oi his fighting comrades in arms his opportunity. .,
 Ladies and gentlemen, we have all witnessed, ,someof us as direct eye-wit- nesses, the making of hero in ouI Filipino war. We have followed with ever increasing interest the numerous exploits of the man from Kansas, and are still familiar with his sudden leaI into prominence by the most daring act of modern warfare. His meteoriC career is too well known to you fol me to recount it in detail. Fortu. nately for him, he had no rival, and the government and the nation did not hesitate to recognize his heroism
 Ladies and gentlemen, I offer this rising toast to the guest of Fort Whipple: Heres to the incarnation of American courage and unsurpassed daring; here's to the embodiment oi Anglo Saxon grit, of American enter prise and American success; here: to General Funston, who has bound the shores of Asia to the American continent as they had never beer linked before. Here's to Genera Funston, I'll not say of Kansas, no merely of the United States, but O the greater United States, our coun try and its colonies. I propose to the health of General Funston. l1Cheers for Funston.
 General Funston, visiblv moved thanked the speaker, and then turn ing to those assembled, remarked il his modest way in a happy vein: '' don't feel like a hero, 1 don't loo like a hero; l am simply a luck. dog"
 The gentlemen of the party and O Fort Whipple then adjourned to tn generals private car for dinner, ant later with their ladies attended the re ception given by the people of Pres colt to General Fusion at the oper house.