The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-14
SHOTSTHATCOUNT
President Says They Are Those
That Hit, in War.
Participates in Dedication of
Dewey Victory Monument.
is NO TURNING BACK.
United States Must Go on as It
Has Begun.
First Extended Speech Since He
Left Topeka.
Is NO TURNING BACK.


Roosevelt participated in the dedication
of the magnificent monument erected in
commemoration of the victory of the
American navy at Manila. The monu-
ment consists of a high shaft of white
California granite, surmounted by
bronze figure of victory, holding in one
outstretched hand a wreath and in the
other a trident.
The president was escorted from the
hotel to the square by all of the ma
riners Of the warships in the harbor>
On the stand from which he addressed
the assembled multitude were the Off
GERS of the warships in San Francisco
bay and vicinity. and the officers of the
cruiser Grafton. the flagship of the Brit
ish Pacific squadron.
In a few words Chairman James G.
Phelan presented the monument to the
city of san Francisco and it was IS
briefly accepted by Mayor Schmitz on
behalf of the municipality.
President Roosevelt said San Francis
co should glory in commemorating the
navy's victory at Manila as it had op-
ened the Pacific ocean to American
commerce and more than any other
event had contributed to give the Uni
~~-
val powers. He dWelt on the necessity
OF preparing ships, armament the men
for the navy. Naval battles are fought
in advance and the Americans won at
Manila, because they had made ready
for the strike The necessity of improV-
ing the navy was first made apparent
IN 1882 and all of the WaTships we now
have were built since that time. Since
the last war, the naval strength of the
United States has been rapidly increas-
% wis icfo or
the last congress has particularly ad-
vanced.
He urged practical work at sea, par
ticularly in Workmanship saying:
Remember that the shots that count
in war are the ones that hit.
The president was then driven to the
United States transport dock, from
whence the party proceeded to Berk-
ley, to take part in the commencement
exercises at the University of CalifOr-
MA. Later President Roosevelt went to
Oakland, where the citizens had ar
ranged to give him a cordial greeting.
AT 2.30 the president and party went
aboard the torpedo destroyer Paul
Jones and proceeded to Vallejo, to lay
the corner stone of the Y. NJ. c. A.
auxiliary club house. to be erected for
the benefit Of seamen. They Win then
inspect Mare Island navy yard, after
which they will return to San Fran
cisco.
immediately dIt6I ln6 banquet dl tit
Union League club tonight the presi-
dent will leave for the Yosemite.
AT MECHANICS PAVILION.
San Francisco, May 14.-At Mechanics
pavilion last night the great assembly
hall of San Francisco, the president
made the most important speech he has
delivered since he left St. Louis. His
subject Expansion and trade develop
ment and protection of the country S
newly acquired possession in the Pa
off sos a
greater navy was one that made his
discourse of particular interesting to
California and he aroused his auditors
to a high pitch of enthusiasm 1t was
a mighty gathering that listened to the
president The doors of the pavilion
We're thrown open to the public al an
early hour and thousands of citizens
thronged the building long before the
time scheduled for the arrival of the
presidential party
M. H. DeYoung, president citizens re-
ception committee opened the meeting
and Mayor Schmitz formally introduced
the president to the people of San Fran
cisco. It was some minutes before the
cheering subsided and the president was
able TO make himself heard. He said
Before [ saw the Pacific slope I was
an exDansionist and after having seen
it fail TO understand how any man
confident of his c0untrys s greatness and
glad his country should challenge with
be anything but an expan anSiOnist. In the
century that is opening the commerce
and the progress of the Pacific will be
factors of incalcuable moment in the
history of the world.
Now in our day the greatest of all
the oceans. of all the seas and the last
to be used on a large scale by civilized
man, bids fair to become in its turn the
first in point of Importance.
Our mighty republic has stretched
fn in, a
MIA, Oregon and Washington, in Alaska
and Hawaii and the Philippines, holds
an extent of coast lines which makes it
of necessity a power of the first-class
on the Pacific. The extension in the
area of our domain has been immense,
the extension in the area of our influ-
ence even greater Americas geo
graphical position on the Pacific is such
as to insure our peaceful domination OF
its waters in the future if only we
grasp with sufficient resolution the ad-
vantages of this position. We are tax
ing long strides in this direction; wit
ness the cables we are laying down and
the great steamship lines we are start
ing-stea eamship lines, some of whose
vessels are larger than any freight car
riers the world has yet seen. We nave
taken the first steps toward digging 2 n
isthmian canal. TO be under our own
control a canal which viii make our
Atlantic and Pacific coast lines to all
intent and purpose continuous. and viii
add Immensely alike to our commercial
and our military and navy strength
The inevitable march of events gave US
the control of the Philippine islands at
time so opportune that it may without
irreverence be called providential
Unless we show ourselves weak, un
less we show ourselves degenerate sons
Of the sires from whose loins we sprang.
we must 20 on with the work that VT
have begun. I earnestly hope that this
work VIII always be peaceful in char
aeter We infinitely desire peace, and
the surest way to obtain it is to show