The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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WESTWARD HO!
President departed from his usual custom, and, descending from
his car, shook hands with the people gathered at the station.
Yankton was the first stop after the train left Sioux Falls.
The other stops of the day were made at Woonsocket, Scot-
land, Tripp, Tarkiston, Alpena and Redfield.
President Roosevelt spent a half-hour Tuesday night in
Medora, N. D., which was his postoffice address when he
owned a ranch there sixteen years before, and was sheriff of
Billings County. Medora is small, but the ranchmen from the
country for miles in that vicinity came to town and united in
giving the President a truly Western reception. Joe Ferris,
who was the President's old foreman at Bismarck, rode with
him to Medora and recalled the days the Chief Executive
spent on his ranch. Probably Tuesday was the most enjoy-
able day of the President's trip. He was in familiar country
all the time and enjoyed the experience immensely. Perhaps
the most significant speech was the one delivered at Fargo in
the morning. This was one of his set speeches and was a dis-
cussion of the administration's Philippine policy and the army.
The President spoke in part as follows:
THE PHILIPPINE POLICY
Three and a half years ago President McKinley spoke in the adjoining State of
Minnesota on the occasion of the return of the Thirteenth Volunteers from the Philip-
pine Islands, where they had ser^-ed with your own gallant sons of the North Dakota
regiment. He spoke of the island as follows:
"That Congress will provide for them a government which will bring them
blessings, which will promote their material interests as well as advance their people
in the path of civilization and intelligence, I confidently believe. They will not be
governed as vassals or serfs or slaves. They will be given a government of liberty,
regulated by law honestly administered, without oppressing exactions, taxation
without tyranny, justice without bribe, education without distinction of social condi-
tion, freedom of religious worship, and protection in 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness." "