The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-08
PROUD OF THE
 WORK DONE President Points to the | Philippines. HIGH PRAISE FOR ARMY Roosevelt Spends Day in North Dakota.
 At Medora, His old Home, He is Given a Truly Western Well come by His old cow- boy Friends.

Mandan, N. D., April 7.-President Roosevelt has been travelling through ia. miliar country today and has received hearty greetings wherever his train stop. ped. At many places he recognized old friends and from his conversation 1t is evident that this has been one of the most enjoyable days of his trip.
 At Fargo. Jamestown and Bismarck he made stops of from half an hour to an hour and discussed conditions in the Philippines. the tariff and the general prosperity of the country. At Bismarc,, the President was introduced to a num- Der of Indian. chiefs, some of whom had fought against Custer. He had traded with two of these Indians eighteen or twenty years ago and he instantly rec ognised them.. The chiefs presented an address and pipe of peace to the Presi- dent,' who had few words of greeting and thanks for each man.
 The most Interesting ceremony of the day occurred at Medora, where the Pres ident at one time owned a ranch and which was his postofiice address fourteen years ago when he was Sheriff of Bill s.'ee >o1htSs At1lCHAuCn ITOfu the GuT- rounding country came into town and gave the President a truly Western wei come. Joe Ferriss who was the Presi- dents old foreman and his brother, s. M. Ferriss. met the President at Bis marck and rode with him to Medora.
 At Fargo the President spoke on the army and the Philippines. He said:
 Speech at Fargo.
 My Fellow Citizens:
 The Northwest, whose sons in the civil war added such brilliant pages to the honor roll of the republic. likewise bore a full share in the struggle of which the war with Spain was the beginning: q
 struggle slight indeed when compare, with the gigantic death wrestle which for four years stamped to and fro across the Southern States in the civil war; but q struggle fraught with the consequences to the nation, and indeed to the world, out of all proportion to the smallness of the effort upon our part.
 Three and a half years ago President Mckinley spoke in the adjoining State of Minnesota on the occasion of the return of the 18th Minnesota Volunteers from the Philippine 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 contemp- tuous 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 them selves as follows:
 That Congress will provide for them a government which will bring them hiess- ings, which will promote their material interests as well as advance their people in the path of civilization and intelli- gence. confidently believe. They will not be governed as vassals or serfs or slaves. They will be given government of llhAFtv ra0l1lafad hV law honestly ad- ministered. without expressing exactions, taxation without tyranny, justice without bribe. education without distinction of social condition. freedom of religious worship. and protection in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
 What he said then lay in the realm of promise. Now it lies in the realm of pos itive performance.
 It Is a good thing to look back upon what has been said and compare 1t with the record of what has actually been done. If promises are violated, if plight ed word is not kept, then those who have failed in their duty should be held up to reproduction. If. on the other hand, the promises have been substantially made good; if the achievement has kept pace and more than kept pace with the proph- esy, then they who made the one and are responsible for the other are entitled of just right to claim the credit which at taches to those who serve the nation well. This credit I claim for the men who have managed so admirably the mill itary and the civil affairs of the Philip pine Islands. and for those other men who have so heartily backed them in Con- port not one thing could have been ac- complished.
 Restoration of Order.
 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 nec- essary. To put down the insurrection and restore peace to the islands was duty not only to ourselves but to the islanders also. We could not have abandoned the conflict without shirking this duty, with memory of our forefathers. Moreover. If we had abandoned 1t we would have inflicted upon the Filipinos the most cruel wrong and would have doomed them to a bloody tumble of anarchy and tyranny. It seems strange, looking back that any of our people should have failed to rec ognize a duty so obvious; but there was such failure. and the government at home. the civil authorities in the Philippines, and above all our gallant army; a storm of detraction. The army in especial was attacked In way which finally did good. for in the end 1t aroused the hearty resentment of the
 
 against the army but against the army's traducers. The circumstances of the war made 1t one of peculiar difficulty. 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 peaceable and most civilized among whom eagerly welcomed our rule. Un- der such circumstances, among a 100000 hot -blooded and powerful young men serv- ing in small attachments on the other side of the globe. it was impossible that occasional instances of wrong-doing should not occur. The fact that they oc- cured in retaliation for well-nigh intol- erable provocation can not for one mo- ment be admitted In the way of excuse or justification. All good Americans ne- gret and deplore them. and the War De- partment has taken every step in it's power to punish the offenders and to pre- vent or minimize the chance of repetition of the offense. But these offenses were the exception and not the rule. As whole our troops showed not only signal courage and efficiency, but great human ity and the most sincere desire to pre-