Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-05-27
President Declares It to Be the Best
Guaranty Of Peace.
IMPORTANT ADDRESS At TACOMA.
The Only Peace Which We Should Ac-
cept Is That Which We Can
Claim as a Matter
of Right.

T1on committee were MADE the guuS OF
the revenue cutter McCulloch, lying in
the harbor, fired a salute of p guns.
AS the president emerged from the
canopy of flags at the station and en-
tered the carriages, accompanied by
Gov. Mcbride, Mayor Campbell and
Secretary Loeb, the crowd broke into
cheers which the president promptly
acknowledged. Fifteen carriages
swung into line, while an escort of
mounted police and cavalry formed a
guard.
The president was taken through the
residence section, passing many of the
public school buildings, where the
children were grouped and gave him
an enthusiastic reception. All the
business and residence streets were
profusely decorated with flags and fes-
toons. Pictures of the president were
TO be seen on all sides. The streets were
packed with people and the demonstra-
1ions kept the president busy bowling
his acknowledgements.
While the drive bout the city was
progressing the crowd thronged
Wright park, where the president was
to address the people. About the
grand stand were massed the G. A. r.
and Spanish-American veterans, while
Gordon of police kept the way clear
Cheering and college yells burst forth
as the president stepped upon the plat
form and was introduced by Mayor
Campbell. He said:
I wish to say one word this after
noon 10 you here in this city by the
sound, on our foreign policy and up
on what must ever be the main prop
of any good foreign policy-the
American navy. In the old days when
i first came to the little Missouri, there
was motto on the range, Never
draw unless you mean to shoot
That IS pretty sound policy for
nation in foreign affairs. Do not
threaten; do not buster; do not in
suit other people, above all; but
when you make up your mind the
situation is such as to require you
to take a given position, take it and
have it definitely understood that
what you say you are ready to make
good.
Kind of Peace We Want.
II earnestly believe, and OF course
L hope with all my heart, that there
will always be peace between the
United States and other powers, but
i wish that peace to come to us not
as favor granted in contempt, but
to be the kind of peace that comes
to the just man armed-the peace
that we can claim as a matter of
right. The events of the last few
years have shown that whether we
wish or not we must play great
part in the world. You men of the
great civil war fought to keep us a
nation, to make US really one nation.
You fought the greatest war of the
kind, and because you dared to fight
for US you have forever inspired in
ternatlonal 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, if they had had their way
would have doomed us to generations
of struggle, TO generations of war.
So you, my own comrades of the
y
years Immediately following, by what
you Gid you gave this nation an as
sured position such as it could have
acquired in no other way, and you
made it infinitely less liable that we
should ever, for insance, have serious
trouble with any nation as to the
Monroe doctrine. t
''The events OF that war, moreover.
showed that the United States had
TO be a dominant power on the Pa
cifc ocean. Our interests in the trade
that goes across that ocean are such,
our positions Of command in refer
ence TO the ocean are such that we
must have decisive say in it's fu-
ture. 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 off the restraint of 1
international morality, will take
some steps against us. relying upon
the weakness of our navy. The surest
guaranty of peace is an adequate
navy. The best possible assurance
against war is an adequate navy Il
ask for navy primarily because it
is the surest means of keeping peace;
and also because if war does come,
surely there can be no American who
will tolerate the idea of it's having
anything other than successful is
sue.
q ask that you, the sovereigns of
the country, see to it that the work
of preparing the navy in time of
peace goes on. The late congress did
its duty-no more than its duty-by
going on with the building up of the
navy, and See to it that the next con
gress ends with a record as good. It
we stop, we go back. The only way to
do in building up the navy is to keep
on with it. to provide the ships and
TO provide for the men on them, and
for training them at the great guns