Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-10-20

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O comment on the great show OF shipsa AZ
Norfolk and New York deal with it first
rs an illustration of the friendly feeling
that now prevails between the United
States and other nations
He recalls that this peaceful rendez-
vous took place in the very roadstead
where the Monitor and Merrimac fought
and near where the Leopard attacked
the Chesapeake while close by at Nor
folk lay the old Constellation. successor
to Truxtons frigate that overcame the
Insurgente in 1899 OF the nine nations
whose 30 warships were there gathered
three were republics, but all the vessels
put on the colors of Italy in honor of the
twenty fifth anniversary of King Hum
bert's marriage, just as the British
Blake afterward at New York where
once the prison ships of the Revolution
lay, flashed out the image of Washing
ton in her fireworks display, and just as
other foreign ships took part in our
Decoration day ceremonies.
Secretary Herbert we'll says that the
voyage from Hampton Roads, when the
vessels of nine nations, in two parallel
columns, steamed at a prescribed rate,
all under the command, by courtesy, of
an American officer, formed "a scene
that has no parallel in history" Yet
even this scene was surpassed in suggest
iveness by the land parade in New
| York, which. while it was the most
significant act of good will to the Amer
lean people and American institutions,
was also the browning lesson of the re-
| view"
And what was that all important les
son? The secretary thus expresses it:
Every thoughtful observer was i'm
pressed with the idea that if our men
should ever come to blows with their
| friends who were behind them in line
| they could never hope to win except with
fair supply Of ships and guns The
stalwart Russians. with their sturdy
tramp; the business looking Britons,
keeping step to God Save the Queen:'
the quick stepping Frenchmen; the Ger
mans, with their natty uniforms; the
Italians. and indeed all the detachments
were drilled and disciplined into fight
ing machines. Never was such sight
| witnessed before as the sailors of nine
different nations marching together, and
never was anything better calculated to
impress upon those who saw them the
lesson that the American sailor can keep
his place upon the seas only when his
government is behind him."
This, after all, should be an abiding
moral of the pageant for our country
men. 1t taught not only the beauty of
peace, but the duty in peace to prepare
for war. 1t was suggestive, no doubt,
that while 70 years before Russia, Prus-
STA and Austria had entered into futile |
combination to reduce the Spanish |
American colonies because they had set |
themselves up as Independent republics, |
here were Russia and Germany Joining |
their ships with those of republican |
France and the South American repub- |
lies.
1t was still more suggestive to find the
armed forces of Russia and England
marching one after another in the same
streets and in the same column and the
armed forces of France and Germany in
like comradeship; while as to the inter
mingled forces of England and America.
the sight of them prompted Secretary
Herbert to say that "Great Britain never
formally renowned the right of search.
on account OF which the war of 1912 was
Fought, until 1858, but the two countries
nave made peace at last, mutual good
Will and respect have been testified in
many ways and never more significant.
ly than at this naval review"
Yet 1t is not the peace note with which
the secretary closes. He insists, as his
conclusion, that in spite of Geneva arbi-
tratlons and Paris arbitrations, we have
not yet found safeguard against war
Inc GENEVA arbitration was achieved
only AFTER the terrific battles of our civil
war mad demonstrated to the world tina
nghtlng capacity of our citizen soldierv
Ii America would keep her own neace
Win all the nations of the earth and
MAINTAIN her place in the vanguard of
cVlrzatlon, she must be at all times nre.
pared Tor war. This is the lesson of
history emphasized by the rendezvous
ana the review" We may add that sncb
lessons We're wholly additional to tbe
original purpose of the ceremony which
was to furnish some distinctly navaI
pageant as the fttest possible form Of
public festival in honor of the greotoSt
of voyages. e'e"'es' ;
indeed it may fairly be said that tho
lull DEMENT'S OF this memorable pageant
were not universally recognized when -
was Planned. Even Mr.. Herbert him.
seil' although member of the bonso
naval committee, voted against the Joint
t .esUiuelOn OF congress which directed if
70 be held, but as its possibilities orod,,
any became apparent he headed the sua
ceSSlui effort at subsequent session 70
increase the appropriation for If ~ th ~
sr needed. The advantage derived
from bringing our own new sb Grsiv to I
selner for the first time in considerable
!; numbers has been exceedingly great a an5
I. mas been increased by giving them d tba
opportunity to compare themselves n u
only with each other, but with the picE ho'
"s S1:1 of eight other nations, p''Ae' i
Still the great benefit of tbe ro,, L
according to Secretary Herbert ' hoe reT rev. '
IN teaching what remains for tho s'1 o oeeh t
York SUM- p'f"'ions'-New