The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-20

| hardly a square mile OF that immense
| Territory, which is now the seat of one
/ of the mightiest empires the world has
| ever seen, but what has been dedicated
to human freedom by the blood of the
American regulars. Great applause.)
II would like to invite your atten-
/ ton for a moment to this superb man
| of simple manners, of heroic thoughts
and classical actions. Observe in mo-
ments of peace campaign, during
/ that psychological period which per-
haps follows pay day, this man displays
peculiarities. eccentricities, idiosyn-
| cracies few believe; but take him alto
gether as he stands today behind his
gun, ready to die, fighting at any time
and in any cline, that this great ma
ton may live and fulfill its mighty
destiny, he is one of the finest products
of our civilization. (Great applause.)
Reasoning with honor and sagacity
this splendid man has no doubt as to
where his duty lies, by the simple proc
ess of patriotic fervor he thinks high
and he shoots low in behalf of every in
terest which is of concern to this Re-
| public. (Applause.) And in all this
| magnificent work he derives his high
| est inspiration from the flag. Cap
plause.) The flag of the American
| union. the flag which is the incarna-
] ton of the ideal aspiration of the
American people: the flag which is the
one focus in which we all meet with
reverential devotion. We differ in poll
tics, we differ in religion, we enter into
violent disputes in regard to the prop
] err Interpretation of the Constitution,
even go to the point of challenging the
wisdom of some provision of the Sacred
Instrument; we inject largely of self
interest and cupidity in the transac-
lions of our daily life, but through the
sanctifying folds of the flag the collec-
| tive intelligence of the nation is in the
soldiers and sailors of the Republic.
/ (Applause.) By the collective intel
i ligence of the nation, say it is led to
rise superior to any of it's parts, and
there insures the perpetuity of the Re-
4 public" (Great applause.)
THE NAVY-ADMIRAL EVANS.
Admiral Robley D. Evans responded
to the toast The Navy. He said:
Mr.. POSTMASTER and Friends: 1
| have often regretted that speech-mak-
| ing was left out of my education, there
fore you will not expect speech from
me. / will probably be able to tell you
what am interested in, but if 1 under
take to tell you the history of the ma
wy it would be reflection upon you,
because I would only be giving you a
history of your country. In the years
long gone by we figured somewhat
prominently on the Atlantic in the early
history of this country, with the SOL
j diers of this great Republic and in the
| spread of civilization from the Allan
/ tic to the Rocky Mountains. and we
have followed somewhat the fashion
of the day and have become expan-
! sionists, and have spread out lately
until we have reached Manila Bay Gap
plause) and if 1 am not saying any
thing indiscreet in the presence of
newspaper men we may extend a lit
tie further before we all die. Gap
plause.) You can never. tell what the
North American sailor is going to do
and like his friends of the army we
i are full of idiosyncracies Qaughter),
and if you keep your eyes open next
week you will see lot of them Qaugh-
i ter).
Now to be serious for a moment,
gentlemen, which is not in my nature,
| but i will try to be, / have lived
through the sail and steam period of
the navy into this present submarine.
battleship- balloon period. daughter
There are some men here who shall be
nameless, who belong to the galley
period of the navy. daughter.)
About twenty-five years ago, was
a member of a board to try some
scheme for recognizing the American
navy. In that day there was not mill
In the United States that could make
a ship plate of steel, or make a gun
for use. We We're forced to buy abroad
steel plates and guns and everything
that went into a ship. Today, owing to
the Protective tariff, as I believe, we
are selling to every nation of the earth
steel plates and steel guns and we are
ready to send the men to tight them if
they need them. Gaughter.)
Gentlemen, you must remember that
in these days of modern navies it re-
quires long time to get men ready. to
do what you require. We must have
our men trained properly to manage
and fight with the great machines that
you are giving us. If you will bear
with me for a short story that has just
a streak of profanity in it, L will tell
1t to you. It was on battleship in the
late picnic we had with Spain. Iaugh-
ter and applause.) Just before the bat
tie of Santiago our people sent US down
a lot of extra recruits. I received a lot
of these men. They were a fine look
ing lot but so green that a COW would
bite at them in the dark. I was puz-
Zled what to do with these chaps and
took one fine looking fellow and told
the executive officer of the ship to sta
ton him where he could do some good.
A few hours afterwards, some fool gun
boat had signalled that the torpedo
boats were coming out and everybody
began shooting at everybody else. AS
1 went on deck somebody caught me by
the sleeve and voice said, I say,
mister That surprised me a little.
Gaughter.) I looked around and here
was that great big fighter of man
from up about Detroit, and 1 said,
What is it, my friend?' He said
I came here to fight and 1 want to
fight but T don't know where 70 go TO