The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-10-27
Guest Of Honor at the Dinner of the
Republican Club.
Received With a Tremendous Ovation When
He Arose to Speak.
The Achievements Of the Navy Dur
ing the Late War Not Due to
Amy Man at It's Read, But to
the Thorough Training of It's
Officers and Men.

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Navy Long received a genuine New
England welcome at Music Hall to-
night on the occasion of the annual
dinner of the Republican Club of Mas
sachusetts. Secretary Long was the
principal speaker. When he rose he
received a tremendous ovation. He
said:
MY experience in the Cabinet has
confirmed the impression that | have
long cherished, that a Cabinet officer,
with or without a vote, should have
a place on the floor of Congress, where
he shall be subject to question in all
matters of his administration, and
have the opportunity to present in per-
son the needs and demands of his
branch of the public service, SO might
he best get larger growth.
The almost entire freedom of the
navy during the war from loss of life
or sickness or disease, and from even
ordinary casualties is the best evil
dence of the thoroughness of it's prep
aration the intelligence of it's direc-
ton, and the skill, efficiency and thor
ough training of it's officers and men.
Let me bear my testimony that all
itself, and not of any man at it's head;
of the completeness of it's system and
the competency of it's personnel Of
its professional spirit l cannot speak
too highly. The commandant at the
yard, the chief in the bureau, and no
less the grades, every one of them, be-
low these. Line and staff. superior
and subordinate have all worked with
fidelity and ability and in
harmonious cooperation, and deserve
equal honor.
The glory of the navy and the glory
of the war which it shares with the
army is not, however, in battle alone;
or, rather, it is not in the brutal ele-
ments of battle. 1t is rather in the
fine instinct, the heroic courage, the
splendid devotion, the intense patriot
ism, which nerve men to endure what
otherwise We're objectionable horrors
of armed conflict for the sake of the
cause for which the battles are fought.
THE war through which we have
just passed was not waged for the ex-
ultant of victory. 1t was for the I'M
looSening of the yoke of bondage, the
elevation of an oppressed people, the
fury.
1T was a revelation to the Spanish
prisoners when they found themselves
received in their encampments, rather
than prison, at Portsmouth with Chris
tian kindness, their wounds bound up
and every want provided for.
THE lesson has not been lost on the
civilization of the time, when Cervera,
returning to his seat in the Spanish
Senate, proclaims the humanity of
and suggests to Spain that
she benefit by our example, awaken
from her bondage to old limitations,
and follow the lead of American en-
terprise and American institutions
IF 1 may say one word more con-
corning the navy, 1 agree with the evil
dent proposition that with the extern
sion of our territory the new duties
that are on us. and the now enlarged
of our sea power, the in
crease in our naval force should go
on. But 1 am not one of those who
would have it extravagantIy expended,
and L would prefer a reasonable in
crease commensurate with the in
creased need. Too rapid a development
will surely lead to a reaction in the
popular mind and a tendency to the
extreme, as happened after the war of
the rebellion. Nor must we forget
that the increase of the army and navy
is necessarily attended with a great
increase in expenditure, therefore it's
taxation; and in the zeal of the present
we may stand on the old
principle that under no
should this be a country
where the military arm is a burden
arm must be subservient by a long
to the educational and indus
trial.
IF ever there was a man who loved
his country, servant of the public
whose purpose was to do his duty. and
who was guided by a prayerful sense
of accountability to God and fellow
men, it is President Mckinley. For
two years / have sat at the Cabinet
table, and I recall not one instance
when in the discussion there was any
question, one word that has been ut
tered with regard to it's effect or bear
ing on the personal or political futures
Of the President or any member of his
Cabinet, or of the party of which he
was the choice two years ago. as to-
day he is the choice of all the people"
Senator Wolcott and Senator Lodge
also spoke.