Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-23


II earnestly believe and Of course
hope with ali my heart that there VIII
always be peace between the United
States and other powers, but | wish
that peace 10 come 10 us not as
favor granted IN contempt, but TO be
the kind OF peace that comes TO the just
nun armed, tie peace that we can
elaim as q matter OF right. OF course,
II In the merest truism 10 say that the
best way TO keep peace Is to show that
YOU are not afraid OF war II unjustly
treated or wrohged. The events Of the
last few years have shown that wheth-
el we wish or not we must play
great part IN the world. II is not
cpen 10 decide whether or not we will
play 1t. All that is open to US to decide
IL whether OF not we VIII play It well,
and know my countrymen too
thoroughly to have any doubt aa 70
what their answer Will be.
"You men Of the great civil war
fought 10 keep us nation, to make us
really one nation. You fought the
greatest war Of the kind, and because
you dared to fight for four years you
have forever insured internal peace for
the republic. Peace came to us for all
time because you dared to fight, and
the people who In your day called for
peace at any price II they had had
their way would have doomed US to
generations of struggle, to generations
OF war. SO you, my own comrades OF
the army and the navy, in '9S and the
years Immediately following, by what
you did, you gave this nation an as
sured position such as II could have ac-
quired In no other way, and you made
II infinitely less liable mot more llable)
that we should ever, for instance have
serious trouble with any nation as TO
the Monroe doctrine.
DOMINANT POWER ON PACIFIC.
1.-THE events of that war moreover
showed that the United States had 10
be a dominant power on the Pacinc
ocean. Our interests IN the trade that
goes across that ocean are such, our
positions of command IN reference 10
the ocean are such that We must have
a decisive say in its future. We can
only have that say In peace by building
up an adequate navy If we fail to
build an adequate navy then some time
some great power, throwing of the re-
straint of international morality, VIII
take some step against US, relying upon
the weakness Of our navy, and again
know my countrymen and J know that
In such cases they would fight anyhow,
and therefore, in your own interest |
ask you to see to 1t that YOU do not
fight with the odds against you, and
above all that by preparing sufficiently
you obvlate all need whatever of fight
ing at all
sUREST GUARANTY OF PEACE,
THE surest guaranty OF peace is an
adequate navy. The best possible as
surance against war is as adequate
navy. | ask for navy primarily be-
cause II is the surest means Of keeping
peace. and also because II war does
come, surely there can be no American
who will tolerate the idea of having
anything other than successful issue.
In the lighting in Manila and In San
tiago in 1898, In which such ships as
the Olympia and the oregon, named
here from the northwestern coast,
built ON the Pacific ocean, did their
part, what controlled the issue Of those
fights-what was done at the moment2
No, the preparation that had been
made In advance. The ships that won
the victories OF Manila and Santiago
had been built years before when there
was no thought and could have been
no thought of war with Spain.
in 1883 We had navy composed Of
antlquatod war craft, unfit to go
against a modern battleship as the gal
leys in which Rome and Carthage
fought for mastery OF the Meditteran-
can, II at any time we had been put
in such position as we We're In 1898,
bitter humiliation would have been In
store for us before we eventually won,
for, mind you | thinkh we would have
eventually won anyhow. But | do not
want TO see a generation OF humiliation
precede the victory. We won because ,
we prepared In advance. We built the
ships, established the ship yards, Gre
ated the armor plants, created gun
and we made ships which In
hulls, guns and engines need to fear no
comparison with those of other powers,
and then put the men on them and |
trained the men to do their part In bat |
tie
THE SHOTS THAT COUNT.
"The only shots that count are the
shots that hit, believe in marksman-
ship ashore and In craftsmanship
anoat You and /, my comrades, who
fought ashore. had a simpler task In
learning how TO handle our weapons.
Most Of US knew something OF the rifle
In advance; II we did not we had our
time learning IT, But get In big
ship, and any man who has been on
one knows II is a mighty complicated
ana delicate bit OF machinery. To han
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