Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-29
AND MUST EXERCISE CAUTION
We Must Have as Good a Navy as Tia, Of
my Nation on Earth.
SHIP FOR SHIP WE HAVE NO FEAR
We nave Tho Men to Put Behind the Guns
LARRY Training Of Our Boy. Make.
Good Marissmen.

Now York. Aug. 2o.-Tho World
says
lac american people are aglow with
patriotic fcrvor and the utmost calm.
ness IL necessary In consldcring our
future course" said United States
Senator cushmsn X. Davis. before
leaving the city for his home to pre-
pare Tor hia journey 10 Paris az one %
the nvo commissioners 10 arrange the
maj terms OF peace between tho United
slHtcs and spain.
Events have made ia one OF the
greatest powers 81 the earth" ~ con.
tlnucd. Whatever we may have de-
sired ourselves heretofore destiny has
FORCED upon " responsibilities that We
must recognize ana accept We have
become a potent factor In the worlds
progrss. a greater actual naval and
military power We arc already. We are
not strong enough yet. but not an hour
must BE- lost In cquipplng ourselves 70
cope with any emergency that may
confront ua' our volunteer army 10 az
soc n not better. than any force of
the Kind In the world. but We can not
rest secure In that thought. We must
have large regular army ready at
'ali In the future. We must have IA
rood a navy as any nation on earth.
We have an excellent beginning. Shin
FOR ship, we need fear nobody. But we
must build ships with true American
energy. Nothing must deter ua. We
know that We have the men 60 put b.
hind Tie gunA. Love OF gunncry u an
American characteristic. when we
were boys al Of " know how to handle
firearms \ sun II the earliest thought
Of the American youth. Men are only
groWn up boyA That explains our sue
csss al Manila and Santiago"
How are we likely 20 be menaced
In the fuiure7' was asked.
Actually. We are not whit more
exposed % attack az n colonial power
thnn We have been every hour since
the active advent of steam sea power.
The glorious victories % our navy have
brought un new responsibilities. hut the
Philippines or The Sandwich Islands
are not more Isolated than arr parts
OF our Pacific coast Hereafter our
power must be fClt ON the Pacific
ocean. The mere addition OF few hun
fred square miles OF territory by cap
ture or treaty does not increase our
china Is the coveted part OF tha
enrth'f surface today. but who could
have predicted nix months ago that
Russia, Germany or Japan would not
havs oovc,od a foothnid on the North
American cuntineutf Nov We see the
trend or events In the East. Pr1yidenee
has stspPd In to point the future
course Tor w.
I'VE must police the Pacific ocean.
It, coart has been our vulnerable
point
''You understand. am on record az
favorlng tho retention % tho territory
which has bsen acquired by the spien-
ala ylctorl,a Of our arms l am an
American cltlYsn speaking ~ such and
my remarks have nothing to do with
oihcial duties that I shall undertake
on October ! ~ a commissioner Ia tho
congress of Paris.
What that body will or viii not do,
l would not fredlct n 1 could. I am
taking n ilT situation a. Il exists
today and rs every American citizen
can see n, The Interests % tho United
States must b. tcaiuuEiy guarded frugn
this hour onward. We have been rcmias
AMI Indifferent In the past. Think OF
the Nrrnlus mnrsncrei hat was tho
hour. In which We should have taught
spain her lesson. Lone years Of suffer-
ms ana hl0ndfhcd would have been
avoided. u II idle tn nay that the Vlr-
,.nlis was not an American ship.
Many OF tn men aboard her were
American citizens and the ship was
'nurht on the high seas. The men were
hot IN cold hleoh-and We stood II.
We endured such an outrage with Gen.
Grant a brave and true man az tho
read of anllfs. u was not cowariice
~ the part ~ the American people.
Tut II was lethhrFy and Indifference
hist was quite ne dehaF,ng In ths sight
u tho world. That was what Justified an
subsequent Spanish blurs and Draw
nut wo have risen TO new plane
10 the Lowell that We We're really IN.
ended 20 hold all along. Nothlng but
ne Indifference Of our statesmen has
the United Staes from Occu-
wing the place 10 which II BELONGED
rho American people have had tho
courage OF their destiny an the time.
they have never faltered.
thereafter ] tell YOU the Maritime.
commercial and political genius OF our
'ooplo VIII not permit their governing
lower 20 be Indifferent % their honor
r their progress, An outrage like that
I Santiago De Cuha-where nearly halt
hundred Americans were stood up
ralnst a wall and shot-would not be
aFapd over today
"How do you suppose similar mas
aero Of American citizens In Havana
'luid be received this afternoon2 Why
ar wnrRhipa would he ON their way to
int point before midnight That's the
Inference. and Il IN wen. II ls as Il
hould DE-,
"The United States has ceased 10 b.
be- China OF the western continent
rc are alive, thank God. and must not
e insultod by any power In this world,
rClt on small
That's the difference between the
uiied States OF the seventies and TO-
iy,
And 10 not the change one that ought
, make every patriot clad? Wars ara