The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-28
PRAISED THE NAVY
Lieut.. Commander LuCien
Young at Havana.
VI axes a Brilliant Response at an
American Dinner at the
Tacon Theater

| ueI on july / at the IdCOn heater n
| Havana among the toasts offered by
| the postmaster, General Ludlow, was
one TO the United States navy. The
| guests included Generals Brooke and
and Cubans. The response to the
| toast was rendered by Lieutenant
! Commander Lucien Young, and every
one in the service will be quite pre-
pared TO believe that the speaker, as
our correspondent writes us. made a
| hit The response was as follows:
For more than thirty-six years prior
TO the War of Independence, the hardy
| fishermen of the New England coast
were engaged in a severe struggle, in
the defense of their homes and their
aqgarian rights.
at was upon such substantial ma
| terial as this that the foundation of the
navy of the United States was
built - that magnificent structure
which has become such an
important factor in the defense of
liberty, the extension of our domain,
and the maintenance of our republican
institutions.
1T was from the success of these
sturdy men, Injured to the dangers and
hardships Of a seafaring life, that the
colonies had to depend upon in the
early struggles for independence. Their
patriotism was such they not only pro-
vided and equipped their own vessels,
but fought them without pay, until in
October, 1775, Congress voted to COM
mission two frigates. From this time
the navy became an important factor
in our national defense.
The magnificent structures of that
day have ceased to exist and the
heroic and successful leaders have long
since passed away, but the examples
set and the institutions of liberty
founded upon the victories they won
still remain. From that time to the
present the brilliant deeds and heroic
achievements of the navy, either in
peace or war, have been equaled by
few and eXcelled by none.
1T was the navy that, by success
sion of magnificent victories on the
high seas and a successful blockade
against the landing of the enemy upon
the shores of New England, made it
possible for the united colonies to gain
their independence.
1T was the navy that, by its con
slant menace Of the enemy in New Or
leans, who blockaded our inland COM
merce of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries, led to the final sale and
purchase of the Louisiana district in
1903, and extended our orders in an
arm of territory reaching out 90 the
Pacific ocean.
1t was the navy that, in the defense
of sailors rights on Lake Champlain,
Lake Erie, the Gulf of Mexico. and
upon the high seas, led to a successful
termination of the war of 1872.
1T was the navy that, by its harass-
ing attacks upon the thieving cOrsairs
and buccaneers of the West Indies, and
the successful defense of our commerce
in the Gulf of Mexico, forced a cession
of the Floridas to the United States
in 1918.
1T was the navy that, by its thor
ough chastisement of the arrogant ty-
rants of the Barbary States, and
that, too. in the face of the tributary
nations of Europe, obtained the free
dom of commerce upon the high seas.
1T was the navy that, by its timely
occupation of California, added that
vast territory to our public domain,
and completed the map OF American
control, from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific ocean.
1T was the navy that opened the
closed ports of Japan and Corea and
enlarged that commerce of the Orient.
ut was the navy that in the battles
of Hampton Roads, Mobile Bay, New
Orleans and the inland waters, as well
as rigid blockade of the Southern
coast. discouraged the Confederate ar
mics. and paved the way for the
final surrender at AppomattoX, by
which the United States was made TO
pass from confederation of petty SOW
ereignties to grand nation capable OF
debating it's policy TO the world.
1T was the navy that by it's constant
vigilance, the autonomy OF the Ha-
waiian Government was preserved, and
prevented the absorption of those ISL
ands by the commercial powers OF Eu-
rope, until they were accepted by the
United States and made an integral
part of the great republic.
1T was the navy that by its victor
| les at Manila and Santiago forced the
termination of the late war and added
| to our credit Porto Rico and the Phil
| ippine Islands, so that now the sun
never sets upon American soil.
"Throughout all these wars our little
navy has never suffered single de-
| feat, but instead the pages OF history
are illumined by her heroic deeds ana
her brilliant achievements will forever
| be famous in poetry and song.
| In the future, as in the past, the
navy will do her part in the colonial
| policy of expansion until the Anglo
| speaking race will have completed IT'S
iproselyting system of civilization wher-
ever it is needed. The philosophy OF
history recognizing the fact that with
a population OF liberty-loving people,
trained as such by centuries OF strug-
gle and reared on a soil that has been
| for ages the home and asylum OF the
| oppressed of every cline, they Will,
with the help of the navy, move on
and on to a still higher plane OF great