The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-10-11
THE NAVAL PAGEANI
LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE INTER.
NATIONAL DISPLAY.

Secretary Herbert of the Navy Quotes. I'm
Time OF Peace Prepare For war''-Be.
ing Able to Fight Is Often q Protection.
ME. Herbert's Part.
The pages which Secretary Herbert de-
votes in the North American Review to
a comment on the great show uf ships at
Norfolk and New York deal with it first
as 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 Merrinac fought
and near where the Leopard attacked
the Chesapeake, while close by at Nor
folk lay the old Constellation, successor
to Truxton's frigate that overcame the
Insurgente in l799. OF the nine nations
whose 80 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
ence the prison ships Of the Revolution
lay, dashed out the image of Washing.
ton in her fireworks display, and just as
other foreign ships took part in out
Decoration day ceremonies.
Secretary Herbert well says that the
voyage from Hampton Roads. when the
vessels of nine nations, in two parable
columns. steamed at a prescribed rate
all under the command, by courtesy, oi
an American officer, formed "a seen,
that has no parallel in history" Ye
even this scene was surpassed in suggest
| iveness by the land parade in New
York, which, while it was the mos
significant act of good will to the Amer
ican people and American institutions
was also the crowning 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 me-
should ever come to blows with thei
friends who were behind them in lin
| they could never hope 10 win except wit
q fair supply of ships and guns Th
stalwart Russians. with their sturd
tramp; tho business looking Britoni
keeping step to God Save the Queen
the quick stepping Frenchmeri; the Ca
mans, with their natty uniforms: Oh
Italians. and indeed all the detachment
were drilled and disciplined into fgh
ing machinee. Never. was snch q Nigh
witnessed bsfore as the sailors Of min
different nations marching together. an
never was anything better calculated
impress upon those who saw them Il
lesson that the American sailor. can kee
his place upon the seas only when b
government is behind him.
| . This, after all, should be an abidin
/ moral of the pageant for our countr,
men. It taught mot only the beauty /
peace, but the duty in peace to prepa,
for war. II was suggestive. no .doub
that while 20 years before Russia, Prn
sia and Austria had entered into q futi
combination TO reduce the Spanisl
American colonies because they had q
themselves up as independent republic
here were Russia and Germany joinin
their ships with those Of republica
France and the South American repul
lies.
It was still more suggestive to find Il
armed forces of Russia and Englan
marching one after another in the SAN
4 st.eets and in the same column and I'll