Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-07


ing yesterdays severe blizzard, the
weather today was clear and bracine
and the program for the reception ant
address of President Roosevelt was
carried out according to plans. The
special train arrived here during the
early morning and at $3.50 the local re-
ception committee waited on the Pres
ident and, after a brief and informal
reception at the train, escorted him il,
carriages through the business portion
of the city. One of the features was
the welcome accorded by the children
of the city, several thousand of whom
were assembled together where the
President was able to greet them. At
ter the drive the President was escort
ed to a stand in front of the Waldorf
hotel where he addressed large and
enthusiastic crowd on the Philippines
BIG TIME AT BISMARCK.
Bismarck, N. D., April 7.-When
President Roosevelt reaches Bismarck
this afternoon he will find the town
given over to his entertainment. A
delegation of 200 Sioux, Gros Ventre
and Cree Indians arrived from the
south and north this morning. Follow
ing the president at the state capitol,
they will present him with a written
address testifying to their faith in him
and their approval of his official acts
in the interest of the Indians. Among
the number will be Rain-in-the-Face
the Sioux chieftain, who is credited
with having killed Custer. On three
sides of the depot have been raised
heroic pictures of the president, one as
a plainsman, one at San Juan, and a
third as he appears in the White
House After the speech making, the
president will be driven past an old
fashioned barbecue in which two whole
steers are being roasted The weather
is perfect.
THE FARGO ADDRESS.
Fargo, N. D., April 7.-President
Roosevelt today delivered an address
here on "The Philippine Islands and
the Army" In part the President said:
"The first duty was the restoration Of
order; and to this end the use of the
army of the United States-an army
composed of regulars and volunteers
alike-was necessary. To put down the
insurrection and restore peace to the
islands was duty not only to our
selves but to the islanders also. We
could not have abandoned the conflict
without Sinking this duty, without
proving ourselves recreants to the
memory of our forefathers. Moreover,
IL we had abandoned it we would have
inflicted upon the Filipinos the most
cruel wrong and would have doomed
them to bloody tumble of anarchy
and tyranny. 1t seems strange, looking
back, that any of our people should
have failed to recognize duty so OBJ
yious: but there was such failure, and
the government at home, the civil au-
thorities in the Philippines, and above
all our gallant army, had to do their
work amid storm of detraction. Inc
army in especial was attacked In way
which finally did good, for in the end 1t
aroused the hearty resentment Of the
great body of the American people, not
against the army, but against the ar
my's traducers. The circumstances OF
the war made it one of peculiar diffi-
Guilty. and our soldiers were exposed to
peculiar wrongs from their foes. They
fought in dense tropical jungles against
enemies who were very treacherous and
very cruel, not only toward our own
men. but toward the great numbers OF
friendly natives, the most peaceaple
and most civilized among whom eager
" welcomed our rule. Under such cir
cumstances, among a hundred htousano
hot-headed and powerful young men
serving in small detachments on the
other side of the globe, 1t was impossi-
BILE that occasional Instances OF wrong
doing should not occur. The fact that
they occurred in retaliation for we'll
nigh intolerable provocation cannot Tor
one moment be admitted in the way OF
excuse or justification. All good Amer
teams regret and deplore them. and the
war department has taken every step
in it's power to punish the offenders and
to prevent or minimize the chance Of
repitition of the offense. But these Of
fenses were the exception and not the
rule. AS a whole our troops showed not
on,v signal courage and efficiency, but
great humanity and the most sincere
desire to promote the welfare and I'D
critics of the islanders. In a series OF
exceedingly harassing and difhcui'
campaigns they completely overthrew
the enemy, reducing them finally to
condition of mere brigandage; ano
wherever they conquered, they con-
,ouered only to make way for the rule
of the civil government, for the intro
duction of law, and Of liberty under thu
law. when, by last July, the last vest
ige of organized insurrection had dis
appeared, peace and amnesty were pro
claimed.
"As rapidly as the military rule wa
extended over the islands by the defea
of the insurgents, just so rapidly wa
It replaced by the civil government. a
the present time the civil government y
supreme and the army in the Philip