The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-13
At NEW YORK.
Secretary Roosevelt Makes a Strong
Address On the Navy.


New York, Feb. 12.-The Republican
club observed Lincoln's birthday, as it
has for y years, at a banquet tonight
at DelmOnicOs. Nearly 800 members
of the club and guests were present,
and so ladies dined in the empire
room" below. When the speaking be-
gan the ladies took seats in the gal
lery. To the toast of The Navy" AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy Roose-
Welt said in part:
When l speak of the United States
navy l do not merely have to make a
party speech, for when we reach the
water line we get beyond the domain
OF party. In preparing TO face a for
eign foe, all Americans should stand
alike.
Fifteen years ago We had no stand
ing Whatever among naval nations.
Now our nation has been built up until
II can fairly claim to be about a tie
with that of Germany for fifth place.
It is as yet by no means as large as
1t should be. and to lie sUpine and let
other nations pass US, when we have
made so good q start, would be one of
those plumbers which are worse than
crimes. In the fate OF China today the
shrill advocates Of unintelligent peace
( fitness should see a grim object les
son. especially fitted to teach them, if
less we are prepared some day to share
this fate land long before that day to
suffer humiliation and insult, which
would make every high-minded Ameri-
can hang his head with shame. and
for which no business prosperity could
atone), we must be ready in time of
need TO Go as our fOrefathers have al
ways done, and show that we are ready
and able TO appeal TO the ultimate ar
oltrament OF the sword. Unless we
are false to every tradition of Ameri-
can foreign policy, we must continue
TO uphold the Monroe doctrine but it
would be better to surrender the Mon
roe doctrine outright than TO discredit
ourselves and make ourselves the
laughing stock of the world by loud-lp
loyalty to It, while We nevertheless de-
cline to take any step which would
make good our pretensions"
PRESIDENT DepeW said in part:
Inank heaven, the clear and superb
utterance OF President Mckinley at
the manufacturers banquet two weeks
ago, and the impTegnable front Of the
Republican members of the house of
representatives have cleared the at
mosphere. Those two things have done
much Tor national credit and Republic
an hope. Now the representative must
take one side or the other.
The good Lord and the good devil
RS-iDu has passed. II Is an axiom. al
most in Washington that the utter
ances OF Mckinley, and of Gage. and
Of Reed, and Of Dingley, are good
principles. but bad politics. But tenn
porary success is worse than defeat
when 1t is won upon that maxim recent
~ enunciated by Mark Twain. that
faith IS believing what you know is not
SO; There IS no more inspiring or hope
IuI Spectacle, no more dramatic picture
OF the battle in the forum, than when
the silver resolution, the resolution. Of
reputation of national obligations. the
resolution which meant, if successful
disaster TO public credit and Drix-ate
business. came down from the senate
Wlth the prestige of the most august
pody IN our government behind it. its
descent upon the house was like the
charge Of the Old Guard at Waterloo.
out the Old Guard bit the dust and
crumbied to pieces upon the impreg-
that greatest parIiamentarian of orr
time, Speaker Thomas b. Reed ;,