The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-26
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President Roosevelt Says Those
Who Violate Laws of War
Shall Suffer, Be They Ameri-
can Soldiers or FilipinOs.
PEACE ALMOST HERE.
Nearer to Philippines Than at
Any Time
Since the Spaniards First En-
tered Bay Of Manila.
ALMOST HERE.

he was escorted to the Algonquin club
house where "a banquet was given in
his honor by the commandery of Massa-
chusetts Naval and Military Order OF
the Standardization war.
Responding to a toast the president
said
There has been a good deal Of critic
ism, and some of it of an exceedingly
Incorporate kind about the actions of
the army over in the Philippines. That
army is composed of exactly such men
as those ] see here tonight.
within the last fortnight there has
been an appalling outrage committed in
the Philippines -Four men were cap
tured and after being kept for a little
while. were put to death by torture
y on have heard very little Of it. and
the reason is because those four men
-rore the United States uniform. For
lat deed If it is possible to exact pun
ishment punishment will be eXacted
You know that any infringement of
the laws of war viii not be tolerated for
a moment and that any man wearing
our uniform who discredits it by tor
ture shall not be saved from punish
ment by any record of excellence in the
past But let the other side of the case
be kept in view also. Let ii be renern-
bered that after all forms Of cruelty the
worst is the weakness which hesitates
proper severity is needed
peace has almost come in the Phil
ippines We have trouble with the IN
civilized tribes in small part of the
archipelago. but outside OF that peace
has almost come because the officers
and enlisted men wearing the national
uniform bravely, quietly. uucomplain-
ilgly and with an iron resolution have
gone about their duty. The army has
gone forward until now throughout the
Philippine islands there is q condition
OF greater peace than has obtained IN
them from the time when the keels of
the Spanish ships first furrowed the
waters on Manila bay, and more than
that. remember that the army has con-
quered not to bring military rule, but in
order that the sphere of civil govern
ment should be constantly extended at
the expense of military rule
The president attended another ban
quet on his return to the Somerset at
1890 it being that given in his honor
by the delegates to the convention of
the International League of Press clubs.
Here the president said in part:
Spea king in Boston, I should like to
say that one of the measures that the
present congress has passed in which 1
took the keenest interest is that of the
irrigation of the arid lands of the west.
That measure could never have been
passed save by the votes and the hearty
support of a very large number of rep
Tesentatives of states which had no pos
sible pecuniary interest in its passage.
In other words to put it through it was
necessary to appeal to the broad pat
riotism of a large number Of people
who could have no special interest to
be subserved By It."
President Roosevelt left Boston over
the New York New Haven and Hart
ford railroad for New London on the
midnight express
AT ALUMNI BANQUET
At the Alumni banquet President
Roosevelt after eulogizing Senators
n q M telT %
said.
NO man has a right to arrogate to
himself one particle Of superiority be-
cause he has had college education
but he is bound. if he is in truth a man,
to feel that the fact of his having had
college education imposes upon him
a heavier burden of responsibility; tina!
II makes 1t dOubIy incumbent on him
10 do we'll and nObly in his life, private
and public / want to speak of three
men who during the past three or foul
years have met that requirement-Of q
graduate of Hamilton college. Elihu
Root. a graduate of Yale. Governor Taft
and of a fellow Harvard man. Leonard
Wood Men who did things, did not say
how they should do them. but did then
themselves. men who have met that
greatest OF our national needs-tht
need for the service that cannot b,
bought the need for the service tina
can only be rendered by the man will
ing to foregO the material advantages
for it has got to be given at the man.
own material cost.
When in England they get man t,
do what Lord Cromer did in Egypt
when a man returns as Lord Kitchene
win return from South Africa, the.
give him peerage and great sum o
money He receives large and tangible
reward and our Cromers, our men o
that stamp come back to the countr!
and If they are fortunate they go bacl
10 private life with the privilege O
taking up what they can find of tn
strings left loose when they surrender
ed their old connections and if they ar
unfortunate they are accused OF NAL
adversiOn of Office-nOt accusation tina
hurts them. but an accusation tina
brands with infamy any man VIII
makes it, and that reflects but i'll on tn
country i'm which it is made
Leonard Wood four years ago Wen
TO Cuba. He has served there eve
since, has rendered services to tina
country Of the kind which perfOrme
3. 200 years ago. would have made hin
hero. mixed up with the sun god ii
various ways. man who devoted hi
whole life to these four years and VIII
thought OF nothing else. did nothin
else save to try to bring up the stan
dard of political and social life in tina
island. to clean it physically and moral
ly, to make justice even and fair in it
TO found a school system that should b
akin TO our own. to teach the peOpl
after four centuries of misrule tina
there were such things as governments
righteousness and honesty and fai
play LOT All men on tne4I ineIltS
merits. He did all that He is a ma
Of slender means He did it on his pa
as an army officer and as governor c
the island. Sixty millions of dollar
passed through his hands, and he cam
out having had to draw on his slende
capital in order that he n light come ou
even when he left the island Credit
him2 Yes, in way In another, n
particular credit. because he was bull
so that he could do nothing else. H
came out having done that and havin
devoted himself as disinterestedly to tn
good Of the Cuban people in all their re
Aations as man could. he has com
back here and has been attacked for
sooth BY people who are not merel
unworthy Of having their names cou