206 Presidential Addresses 



been made to detect and punish the wrongdoers and 

 the wrongdoing itself has been completely stopped. 

 But these misdeeds were exceptional, and their oc 

 currence in no wise alters the fact that the Ameri 

 can army in the Philippines showed as a whole 

 not only splendid soldierly qualities but a high order 

 of humanity in dealing with their foes. A hundred 

 thousand of our troops went to the Philippines. 

 Among them were some who offended against the 

 right. Well, are we altogether immaculate at home ? 

 I think not. I ask for no special consideration to 

 be shown our friends and kinsmen, our sons and 

 brothers, who during three years so well upheld 

 the national honor in the Philippines. I ask merely 

 that we do the same equal justice to the soldier who 

 went abroad and faced death and lived hard as we 

 show to his fellow who stayed at home and lived 

 easily and in comfort; and if we show that equal 

 justice we will doff our hats to the man who has 

 put the whole country under obligations by the vic 

 tory he helped to win in the Philippines. 



But the soldier's work as a soldier was not the 

 larger part of what he did. When once the out 

 break was over in any place, then began the work of 

 establishing civil administration. Here, too, the sol 

 dier did his part, for the work of preparing for the 

 civil authority was often done by the officers and 

 men of the regular army, and well done, too. Then 

 the real work of building up a system of self-gov 

 ernment for the. people who had become our wards 

 was begun, under the auspices of the Philippine 



