Evening journal., 1902-05-03
PRESIDENT
ADVISES CADETS
He Attends Graduating EX-
OrCiSeS at Annapolis
MAKES STIRRING ADDRESS
SayS il Var Comes, Prime Factor in
Securing Victory FrOm POreign
Foe is Navy

Annapolis, Md. May S.--President
Roosevelt and party arrived here yes.
terday morning on a special train 70
attend the graduating exercises at the
United States Naval Academy As
the president salighted from the train
he was received by superintendent
Wainwright and his aide; Lieutenant
II. j. Ziegemier. A battalion OF ma
rines. under command of Captain Lu-
cas-, was drawn up at the station. The
party proceeded in carriages to the
academy grounds, the president go
ing directly to the superintendent IS
house. where there was a short wait
to permit the assembling of the cadet
battalion at the chapel. A salute OF
21 guns was fired in the presidents
honor The party then entered the
chapel. where the exercises were held.
President Roosevelt delivered a
stirring address to the Sc future naval
heroes and handed them their diplo.
mas. The president said:
'In receiving these diplomas you be-
come men who above almost any 9th
ers OF the entire Union are to carry
henceforth the ever-present sense of
responsibility which must come with
the knowledge that on some tremen-
dous day It may depend upon your
courage, your preparedness, your keen
intelligence and knowledge of your
profession whether or not the nation
is again to write her name on the
worlds roll of honor or to know the
black shame of defeat. We all Of us
earnestly hope that the occasion for
war may never come. but if II has
to come then this nation must win
and the prime factor in securing vic
tory over any foreign foe must of ne
cessity be the United States navy
the navy fails us then we are doomed
TO defeat, no matter what may be the
material wealth or the high average
of our citizenship.
"The best ships and guns and the
most costly mechanism are utterly
vaiueless II the men arc not trained
TO use them to the utmost possible ad.
vantage. From now on throughout
your lives there can be no slaclSness
on your part. Your duty must be
present with you, waking and sleep
ing. You have got to train yourselves,
and you have got to train those under
you, in the actual work Of seamanship,
in the actual work of gunnery If
the day for battle comes you will need
all that you possess of bOldness, skill,
determination, ability to bear punish
ment, and instant readiness in an
emergency. But though without these
qualities you can do nothing. yet even
with them you can do but little if you
have not had the forethought and set
purpose to train yourselves and the
enlisted men under you Alright.
"Ohicers and men alike must have
the sea habit; officers and men alike
must realize that in battle the only
shots that count are the sho,s that
hit, and that normally the victory will
lie with the side whose shots hit
oftenest Seamanship and marksman.
ship-these must be the two prime OBJ
jects of your training. both for your
selves and for the men under ym."
When it was all over, the president,
accompanied by his party. went down
to the hospital. where Cadet Murray
S. Land, of Wyoming. lay III in bed,
To him he delivered a diploma. as TO
the others, and added a few kindly
words Of cheer
The presidential party returned to
Washington after a short trip en- the
torpedo boat Gwynn on the Chesa.
peake Bay. The presidents daughter
Miss Alice Roosevelt, remained here
TO attend the. ball
The ball last night was a brilliant
function. Nearly every state in the
Union was represented by invited
guests. over a thousand persons We're
in attendance. All the officers and
many of the cadets of the naval acad-
emy were present in uniform. The
costumes and jewels of the ladies were
rich and dazzling Miss Alice Roose
welt wore a blue silk embroidered
gown, cut low.