The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-04
MANKIND LOVES WARRIOR
Chief Power of the World Has Been
the Power of the Sea.
THE AMERICAN SAILOR OUR CHIEF GLORY
The Average American Seaman Has Ever Been
The Most Efficient Sailor Upon the Sea
by Virtue of His Superior
Manhood.

President was greatly pieaSed WIN Ut.
Winston's address at Annapolis, and
added:
''In the chapel, where the address to
the graduates was delivered, he APP
pIauded vigorously certain sentiments
and laughed aloud at the witty remarks
of Dr. George T. Winston, President of
the North Carolina Agricultural College
and Mechanic Arts
The Evening Capitol of Annapolis,
says that "Mr. Winston's entire address
was listened to with marked interest.
The address was exceedingly witty, and
was punctuated throughout with loud and
hearty applause, the President himself
entering into the spirit of the occasion
and applauding at telling points in the
speech
1t seems from the "Capitol'S' report of
the speech that DR.. Winston prefaced his
formal address by a fusladc of Win
stoniana. in the style made so famous
at the University by himself and the
late Colonel Walter L. Steele. 1t was
this fusilade that set the Cadets and the
President a roaring. President Win
ston's formal address is printed else
where in our columns.
To a reporter of the News and Observer
DR.. Winston expressed regret that some
of the papers and especially the Asso-
ciated Press, had given exaggerated en-
phasis to what he said about Admiral
Sampson 'fThe only reference I made to
Sampson" he said. cor to Santiago, was
in recalling my experiences of thirty
four years ago as a midshipman at
Annapolis. / said Among the pleas
ant memories of my life is the fact that
! lived year on the "Old Constitution"
under the tuition of Dewey and crossed
the ocean twice in the famous Mace
DOMAIN, with Sampson as navigator.
How wildly | now recall them. The one
with the nervous agility and brave
spring of the lion; the other, with the
ddol STEADY, patient tenacity of the
bull dog. Surely no two heroes were
ever better fitted for the great work that
they accomplished than Dewey and
Sampson" OF course, it would have
been indecent for me to take part on
such an occasion in the Simpsons hley
controversy, and of course, | did not do
so.
President Winston says that North
Carolina is most honorably represented
at the Academy. Lieutenant Command
er Parker, of Halifax, is one of the in
structOrs; Oscar f. Cooper of Clinton,
and Adolphus Station, of Tarboro, are
among the most popular and distinguish
ed graduates. while in the lower classes
are David Worth Bagley, Jack London
and others who are wearing worthily the
name of Heel.
DR.. WINSTON'S ADDRESS.
Here is Dr. Winston's address,:
Gentlemen of the Graduating Class:
Among the thousands of young men who
will graduate this year from the various
colleges and universities of the world, 1t
may be doubted whether in the results
of training already secured or in oppOr
tunities for life careers there be many
comparable to the graduates of this
academy. 1t is said that one-thrd of
all college students in the world die
early in life from mental strain and lack
of physical exercise, that another third
perish from dissipation and vice. while
the remainder control the destinies OF
the world. There is reason to believe
that you belong to this noble third
Your education has furnished both pro-
fessional training and general culture;
il has produced a sound mind in q sound
body; and, above all it has stamped
upon every fibre of your nature the
image and superscription of a gentle
man. Among the nations of the earth
there is no current coin of manhood
that rings truer and shines more unfair
nished than the sterling character of
the American naval officer.
Young gentlemen, you enter today the
profession of war, a profession much
abhorred and abused, but in its highest
and truest spirit, the noblest of all pro-
fessions. One of the greatest soldiers
of our race has declared that war is hell,
and the dream of statesmen in every age
has been an era of universal and per-
petual peace; but mankind, which cannot
err in its final judgments, loves and
honorS most of all it's heroes the war;
rior 1t loves him. not because he takes
the life of others, but because he is
willing to surrender his own whose
ever loseth his life shall save it. and
whatsoever saveth his life shall lose it
Among the nations of the earth the peo-
pie that are willing to fight and to die
in defense of the largest number OF
things, will enjoy the largest measure
of liberty. There is no slavery for a
brave people, and there is no hope for a
PEOPLE who will not fight. Our mighty
union, rent in twain by rivers of blood
was cemented again only by blood. The
vanquished South, though seated again
in halls of Congress, in Cabinet chairs,
on Supreme Court bench, though sharing
again with victorious North every political
and legal right, still sat in the ashes OF
grief and refused to be comforted until
invited to shed her blood again in defense
of humanity. When the battle Scared
veterans of Lee and Jackson charged
up San Juan Hill with the gallant Rough
Rider, the heart of the South was
touched at last. The magic thrill of he
roism, which makes all men akin, weld |
ed South and North together in common
defense of humanity. Love and war dwell