Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-02
A WAVE Of PATRIOTISM
SWEEPS OVER SANTA f,
Day Celebration the Most Elaborate
Affair of the Kind Ever Held Here--Re-
sumo Of Exercises--Forceful and In
spring speeches.

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peeches.
sun shines down on. Teach them and
their sweet sisters, the buds, the bios
SONS, the ornaments of America, to
look up with holy love and heartfelt
devotion to the glorious flag of the re-
public, the type of our freedom, the
symbol of our might. The only flag that
lutters owe free and independent peo-
pie, the flag beside whichno other in the
world is worthy to float, the flag which
is dyed deep with the blood of our gal
liant fathers and lit up with the gleam-
ing stars of our freedom. Teach them
to love all their countrymen and women,
from New York to Texas and from
Maine to Manila. And oh, teach them
to besiege the great white throne of God
with their pure and holy prayers for the
success of our flag and the safe return
Of our splendid young chivalry who
have left our hearths and homes to fight,
and if need be to die as their fathers
died, for America and her stainless
honor"
Following the speech, which was
frequently interrupted by cheers from
the crowd, the choir rendered 1.-The
Star Spangled Banner Everyone who
could or could not sing made some kind
of noise which designated that the fires
of liberty and love of Old Glory burned
with tensity in each loyal breast.
Hon. T. B. Catron was received with
prolonged cheers. He said in substance:
Speech of Hon. T. b. Catron.
Mr.. President, ladies and fellow
citizens: The song just rendered has
been sung often before. 1t was written
by a prisoner on board a ship of a hos
tile feet, when he looked out from Il
port hole and saw the star spangled
banner floating in the breeze from the
battlement of an American fort. Moth
ing could be more appropriate as we
meet to celebrate the victory of our gal
liant admiral in the Philippines one
month ago today"
Mr.. Catron then made a brief allusion
to the growth of the American navy as
follows: ''When America was origin
ally settled the people came here in
boats of 200 tons burden. They took
their lives in their hands for the pur-
pose OF forming Il great nation. Thir-
teen colonies were formed, and they did
not act in concert as to local govern
ment, yet they were forced to protect
themselves against foreign invasion,
and they showed that they possessed
the same mettle that actuated the vic
t0rious seamen at Manila.
"The United States has had three
stages of political existence. The Colo
NAL had no navy. The Confederation
established a navy and Washington
placed various vessels in commission for
the reason that his army needed powder
and ammunition sent from England.
Each ship did its duty and brought into
port some ships from the English feet
laden with powder and ammunition.
"The American navy was first organ
lied in TIT, about the time the consti-
tuition vas adopted. The first tlotilla
consisted of thirteen ships--the exact
number of colonies, and the number of
stars later added to the flag. John Paul
Jones commanded one of these ships.
He tloated u flag representing Il pine
tree with a snake entwined at the roots,
carrying the words "Don't tread on me-
Jones fought until his own ship was
sinking, then he boarded the enemy's
vessel and brought it into port with his
own sailors"
AlluSiOn was then made to the naval
operations against pirates and corsairs
in the Mediterranean, forcing pirates,
as well as the residents of all civilized
countries, to honor and respect the flag
of the United States.
1T has been well said that America
was settled by English people, not by
the British government. Yet the next
effort at war was with this nation which
produced the blood that trickles through
our veins. Then England's navy had
LOGO ships, while the navy of the United
States possessed but 20. However, the
ships of the American navy never came
home trailing their flags behind, and
Commodore Perry's victory on Lake
Erie in those days has been equaled only
by Dewey's achievement at Manila, for
every ship of England's squadron on
Lake Erie was sunk or captured. With
such a splendid victory to emulate, it is
no wonder that Dewey sank every ship
at Manila that floated the Spanish flag.
prolonged cheers.)
Nothing more was done until the
late var Now that is all wiped out and
every individual who then sympathized
on one side or the other is now united in
defense of the nations honor and for
the furtherance of victory. (Vociferous
cheers.) The fight of the Merrimac and
Monitor will go down in history as the
grandest naval battle ever INDUCED in
on the surface Of the water. 1t inaugu-
rated a new era in ship building, and
since then every nation has patterned
from the armorcd styles of those ships.
But best OF all, 1t taught the people of the
world that America is capable of build
Ing a navy and furnishing men to fight
with it.
"Thc United States was brought into
this war to eradicate the suffer-
ings of a wronged people. BY attaining
independence we set an example to
other countries and Central and South
America has profited by that example
as will other sections. We have adopt
ed a doctrine that no monarchy can set
foot on the soil of the United States and
interfere with our free institutions.
(Cheers) Cuba, downtrodden and op-
pressed, appealed to the sympathies of
the people of this great nation 50 strongly
that silence and non-action were unen-
durable. And we will bring out Of Cuba
a free government.
"The people are ready to pay taxes
incurred by the expenses of wal and
debt Is no intimidation. No one shrinks
from 1t.
"Admiral Dewey's victory is second to
none and the American people expect
other admirals to do likewise until
Spain's>fieet is wiped out and Spanish