Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-07
He Talks About the Army
and the Philippines.
Colorado Legislature Adjourned This Morn
ing In DiseracefMI Disorder.

Fargo, N. D., April 7.-Notwithstand-
Ing yesterdays severe blizzard the
weather today was clear and bracing
and the program for the reception and
add ess of President Roosevelt was
carr led out according to plans. The
special train arrived here during the
early morning and at $3.50 the local
reception committee waited on the
president and after brief and infor-
NAL reception at the train escorted
him in carriages through the business
port on of the city. One of the feat
ures 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.
After the drive the president was
escorted to stand in front of the Wal
dorf hotel. where he addressed large
and enthusiastic crowd on the Philip
pines.
MY. Fellow Citizens: The north
west, whose sons in the civil war add
ed such brilliant pages to the honor
roll of the republic, likewise bore a
full share in the struggle in which the
war with Spain was the beginning; a
struggle slight indeed when compar-
ed with the gigantic death wrestle
which for four years stamped to and
fro across the southern states in the
civil war; but a struggle fraught with
consequences to the nation, and indeed
tc the world, out of all proportion to
the smallness of the effort upon our
part.
Three and a half years ago Presi-
dent Mckinley spoke in the adjoin-
ins state of Minnesota on the occa-
sion of the return of the Thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers from the Philip
pine Islands, where they had served
with your own gallant sons of the
North Dakota regiment. After heartily
thanking the returned soldiers for
their valor and patriotism, and their
contemptuous refusal to be daunted
or misled by the outcry raised at home
by the men of little faith who wished
us to abandon the islands, he spoke
of the islands themselves as follows:
THAT congress will provide for
them a government which will bring
them blessings, which will promote
their material interests as we'll as ad
vance their people in the path of civil
ization and intelligence, I confidently
believe. They will not be governed as
yassals or serfs or slaves. They will
be government Of liberty, regulated
by law, honestly administered, with.
out depressing exactions, taxation
without tyranny, justice without bribe,
education without distinction of social
condition, freedom Of religious wor.
ship. and protection of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
What he said then lay in the realm
of promise. Now it lies in the realm
of positive performance.
1t is good thing to look back upon
what has been said and compare it
with the record of what has actually
been done. If promises are violated,
If plighted word is not kept, then those
who have failed in their duty should
be held up to reprobation. If, on the
other hand, the promises have been
substantially made good; il the
achievement has kept pace and more
than kept pace with the prophesy. then
they who made the one and are re.
sponsible for the other are entitled of
just right 10 claim the credit which
attaches to those who serve the nation
well. This credit | claim for the men
who have managed so admirably the
military and the civil affairs of the
Philippine Islands, and for those other
men who have so heartily backed them
in congress, and without whose aid
and support not one thing could have
been accomplished.
When President Mckinley spoke,
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 a duty not only to our
selves but to the islanders as we'll
We could not have abandoned the con-
tict without Sinking this duty. with.
out proving ourselves recreants to the
memory of our fOrefathers. Moreover.
if We had abandoned it we would have
inflicted upon the Filipinos the most
cruel wrong and would have doomed