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and the way in which, when the war was over, you 

 turned again to the work of peace. In war and in 

 peace alike your example will stand as the wisest 

 of lessons to us and our children and our children's 

 children. 



Just at this moment the Army of the United 

 States, led by men who served among you in the 

 great war, is carrying to completion a small but 

 peculiarly trying and difficult war in which is in 

 volved not only the honor of the flag but the tri 

 umph of civilization over forces which stand for 

 the black chaos of savagery and barbarism. The 

 task has not been as difficult or as important as 

 yours, but, oh, my comrades, the men in the uniform 

 of the United States, who have for the last three 

 years patiently and uncomplainingly championed 

 the American cause in the Philippine Islands, are 

 your younger brothers, your sons. They have 

 shown themselves not unworthy of you, and they 

 are entitled to the support of all men who are proud 

 of what you did. 



These younger comrades of yours have fought 

 under terrible difficulties and have received terrible 

 provocation from a very cruel and very treacherous 

 enemy. Under the strain of these provocations I 

 deeply deplore to say that some among them have 

 so far forgotten themselves as to counsel and com 

 mit, in retaliation, acts of cruelty. The fact that for 

 every guilty act committed by one of our troops a 

 hundred acts of far greater atrocity have been com 

 mitted by the hostile natives upon our troops, or 



