New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-05

resentatives, made us ready and prepared-that
is. right at hand-a navy fit to do the work 1t
was called to do.
MUST KEEP BUILDING NAVY.
We shall forfeit all right to be proud of those
deeds If we do not go on making the United
States Navy right and now. At present there Is
not a cloud big as hands breadth on the
horizon. We on terms of good Will with
all peoples of mankind. l think they feel well
disposed toward us. / am sure a first class
navy will help to keep them so. want gooo
navy, not as a provocative toward war, but
as a guarantee against war. l want it as the
cheapest insurance of peace and I want to see
peace always with this country. Not the peace
that comes to the coward that hinches from the
fight but 20 the just man armed, VINO VIII
neither harm the weak nor suffer wrong from
the strong.
l think that is a good maxim and sounds
like common sense So much, then, for taking
thought for this peoples position with reference
to the rest OF the world. We only need small
regular army. but need first class navy
a navy adequate to the position we have in the
world And it is absolutely necessary we should
keep on with the building up of that navy; that
we shall keep the navy we have at the hlgnest
point of efficiency in ships, in guns, ana IN what
counts for more than ships guns-the men
in them and behind them; and that we snail go
steadily along the course we have mapped out
for ourselves as people.
WE MUST PLAY A BIG PART
The great nation must play a great part in
the world A small nation can with dignity play
a small part But if a great nation plays
small part it brands itself with the brand of
failure. We have TO play big part All we
can decide is whether we can play that part
well or III, and 1 know you, my countrymen'
will not hesitate as to- what our decision VIII De.
Even more in portant is our position as REGARDS
ourselves here at home. man must De more
than merely good in his own household before
he is a good citizen. He mist first OF all be
good, honest husband 80 it is with our nation
While we cannot be a great nation ana 90 the
kind of work great nation must do, save oy
paying attention to our international duties, yet
our first duties are the duties WITHIN our own
house.
The first duties are the duties that have to do
with Clean honest living here at home. we need
cleanliness and honesty in private as well as III
public life. Now you who fought in the great
war if there is any lesson you taught 1t is the
lesson Of brotherhood, and you applied that Jes-
son and had to Apply it as a condition OF WIN
ming. Our army could have done nothns II
organized on any plan save the fundamental
plan Of treating each man on his worth as
man.
Each one of YOU and every man I am talking
to remembers how important it was to be able
to trust the your right hand and the
one on your left, in any time of emergency, to
trust him in battle, to trust him in camp. 1t
was all.important to you when you got into a
tight place to feel that when the order came to
move, that man would move the right way.
Was ii not? Exactly. You did not care what
the mans birthplace was, what his creed was in
accordance with which he worshipped the
Maker, what his social position or what his
wealth was, whether he was banker brick
layer, whether he was born here or abroad, or
what faith he protested These things were not
What you wanted to know was
whether he stayed put. If he did you were for
him, and if he did not you against him,
and you would have treated him as an enemy
of yours and of the regiment and of the army
and of the country.
ARROGANCE MEAN AND BASE.
That is the same standard of Judgment which
we must apply in our citizenship of to-day if we
are to succeed as a nation. The spirit of
sance. the spirit which makes the man of wealth
look down upon or seek to Cypress his less for
tunate fellow, is a mean. base spirit. and it is
not one whit meaner baser than the spirit of
mean envy and hatred felt toward a man be-
cause he happens to be better or more success
full. Either spirit is wholly unworthy of our in
situations and incompatible with the American
ism of which we are so proud. In the past the
republics of antiquity, the republics Of the Mid
die Ages, failed almost always because they
ceased being the government Of the people as
whole and became government of one portion
OF the people which wished to use the rest for
its own benefit. The fall was inevitable
if the government. became a government of
or If a mob deSpoiled the rich. In
either case the net result was failure and down
fall to the State and the institutions upon which
the State. was founded. ...... e.
This is not the government Of a plutocfacy or
of mob. Il is;-and what is. more always shall
be. government of liberty and. order, by,
through and under the law, the law which no
man is above and none is below, the law which
forbids a crime of greed cunning, and which
forbids equally crime Of lawless physical Vio-
lence. Amy Executive that is worth his salt Will
crime as against another He has in SO doing
the right to challenge the support of all decent
and law abiding men; and If he does not get 1t
and is worth his salt he Will go ahead and en-
force the law anyhow. 1t is of vital cOnse-
quence to all our people to see that the law is
enforced, but most of all 1t is of consequence to
the man who has much and whose much is
guaranteed to him by the law itself to stand
straight for the honest enforcement of the law.
Now, l am glad to have seen you this after
noon. I have spoken expressly to the men who
fought in the great Civil War because. OH you,
my fellows, my comrades, the men and women
of the younger generation gives you honor. And
need practically to apply in our lives to-day
the principles which they illustrated in their
lives when the times cried for the illustration.
l ask that each man and each woman here go
home and think over the lessons this day really
teaches. If you go home feeling You have had
a good time, and you are glad other people did
also, that is all there is to 1t; but still you
have not gained much, and the cOuntry's gain
is still less. But good will come of every celebra
ton of this kind and good will come of keep
ing alive in our memories keeping alive in our
minds, the deeds of the mighty past if we reso-
lutey purpose that the present shall equal the
past. 1t is not given to us. as rule. to have
the chance to do herO's deeds. To these men,
the veterans, the chance given, and they
took advantage of IT. They viii be the first to
tell you that the who did the heroic deeds
was as a rule, the man who. during the months
before. did ordinary common peoples duties
we'll. The man who was waiting before he did
anything until the. chance came to do some
thing spectacular was only a poor soldier. Now.
there are exceptions, Of course but you Will
bear me out that. as rule. the man that did
we'll when you got into. great fight was the
man who did the job rule. Now, then, 1
ask that who are citizens in time of peace,
when the work is not heavy, do the tasks of
the day as they ought to be done. If each does
his duty it viii mean that the nation which is
the greatest Of all will also have done its duty
in turn.
The President was followed by Mayor Low.
MAYOR LOWS SPEECH.
Mayor Low spoke of the political relationships
of Huntington and New York. and extended this
city's greetings and congratulations. He con-
'tinued, in part
The most nn,ins change that has come over. elll-