Evening star., 1902-08-26

academy at west Point, the most typlcally
democratic and American school of learn
ing and preparation that there is in the en-
tire country.
There each man enters on his merits,
stands on his merits and graduates into
service where only his merit will enable
him to be of value.
The enlisted men are of fine type as they
needs must be to do their worh well. and
out of the fine material thus provided the
finished man-of-war s-man is evolved by
years of service. 1t is impossible after the
outbreak of war to improvise either the
ships or the men of a navy. The shipbuld-
crs and gUnmakerS must keep ever the
alert so that no rivals pass them by, and
the officers and enlisted men on board the
ships must in their turn, by the exercise of
Unfagging and intelligent zeal. keep them
selves fit to get the best use out of the
weapons of war intrusted to their care.
The instrument is always important. but
the man who uses it is more important still.
Must Keep Up Endeavor.
we must constantly endeavor to perfect
our navy in all it's duties in time of peace,
ard, above ALL in maneuvering in a seaway
and in craftsmanship with the great guns.
In battle the only shots that count are
those that hit, and craftsmanship is mat
ter of long practice and of intelligent rea-
Soning. A navyS efficiency in war de-
pends mainly upon its preparedness at the
outset of that war. We are not to be eX-
cused as nation if there is not such pre-
paredness of our navy.
No nation has a right to undertake a
big task unless it is prepared to do it in
masterful and effective style. 1t would be
an intOlerable humiliation for us to embark
on such course of action as followed from
our declaration of war with Spain and not
make good words by deedS-not be
ready to prove our truth by our endeayor
whenever the need calls
The good work of building up the navy
must go on without ceasing. The modern
will adv lrtl lle oil M
to rust in diSuse. 1t must be used up in
active service even in time of peace. This
means that there must be a constant re-
placement of the ineffective by the effec-
tive. The work of building up and keeping
up our navy is therefore one which needs
our constant and unflagging vigilance.
Navy is Now Efficient.
Our navy is now efficient; but we must
be content with no ordinary degree of eff
cheney. Every effort must be made to bring
1t ever nearer to perfection. In making
such effort the prime factor is to have at
the head of the navy such an official as
your fellow-townsman, Mr.. Moody, and
the next is to bring home to our people as
a whole the need of thorough and ample
preparation in advance: this preparation to
take the form not only of continually build
ing ships but of keeping those ships in
commission under conditions which will de-
Yelop the highest degree of efficiency in the
officers and enlisted men aboard them
At the close of his speech the President
passed to his carriage. At the rear of the
platform he found the local camp of Span
list war veterans drawn up a a present"
The President smiled, and, standing up in
his carriage, spoke a few words to them,
concluding, And I'm nightly glad to see
YOU
He was then driven back to the station
again, and in ten minutes the train started
out on schedule time.
Arrival at Lawrence
LAWRENCE. Mass, August 26-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his party, amid the
booming of a salute from the guns of a
light artillery battery, were received in
this city by Mayor Leonard and members
of the city government today. The Presi-
dent was Immediately escorted to tenn
porary stand erected at the station, where
he addressed one of the largest crowds
that ever gathered in this city. Splendid
weather conditions favored the event.
The President was greeted with en-
thusiastic cheers when he arose to make
his address. He said
Mr.. Mayor and fellow-citizens: I have
just come from Lowell. Here in Lawrence
l am In another of the oldest industrial
centers of this country, one of the cities of
modern industrHlism. 1t is greatly to your
credit that you should have built up such
a city of our material prosperity, but you
have done more than that. | am greeted
here today by the members of Needham
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic
This is the section of the country in which
the first blood was shed in the revolutionary
war that made a nation. and ii was here
also that the two cities of Lowell and Law
renee gave their sons to pour out their life
blood, the first of the ocean of life-blood
poured out from 1861 to 1863 to keep this
nation one and great and free And so ii
was characteristic of your city, which sent
these men here to the great war when a
lesser war came up. my comrades, men of
the 9th regiment, with whom | served be-
Tore. Sdutl in TO
Try call when once again there was war
IN the land. CCheers and applause)
Comrades in the Philippines.
And other comrades of yours younger
comrades of yours, men whom we knew
men of the 9th Regiment, other men in the
far-on Philippines, have, after three years
of unspeakable toll and hardship against
cruel! reckless and elusive foe, finally won
victory for the American flag. Our people
owe the greatest debt possible to you who
fought in the great crisis in the great war;
but there is a debt owing also to the men
who so gallantly did their duty during the
past three years to say that the honor of
the flag which you handed to them un-
stained should be kept undimmed fAp-
plause). And now they have fought and
their success has meant what the success
of the American soldier has always meant
You triumphcd and your foes and detract-
ors said that as mighty an army as YOURS
was meant the establishment of despot-
Ism IN this country, and the minute that
the war was over you went back to the
p!0w. to the factory and the farm and the
office and became citizens again. (Ap-
plause)
And now in the Philippines our soldiers
have fought and won. To do what? To
leave the country and establish the rule of
civil authority under the American flag
And now we have brought peace to the is
lands They are better off than ever be-
fore. Never in their history has each man
had, as he has now, such a good chance for
life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
You have brought self-governing tndiyid
uai freedom to the Filipinos of a kind that
theS could nave never known under an
anarchic tyranny OF their own Now we
VIII govern the islands well We will
govern them primarily in their interests.
but in our interests also. Whether we will
or not, We as a nation front a great des-
uny. We can decide whether we will do
our work badly well but We cannot
help doing it. We have got to do it some
how and l ask that all men stand shoulder
TO shoulder as Americans to see that they
do it we'll"
After speaking the President stepped back
n he frai TO,