Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-31
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is able to make good. if the necessity

| - abe 10 make good. If the necessity
| arises 70 make good.
Ii is idle to talk of our faith in the
| Monroe Doctrine if We are not able to
| make that faith evident. II is foolish
| 10 remain permanently in the Philip
| pines JnlesS we provide base Of mil
iiary action for our fleets and army
| should il be necessary to defend the
| Philippines in time of war. 1t is fool
| lsh 10 assert our position as entitled To
respect of other great nations unless We
are willing To build the ships 20 build
| the guns and TO train the men who are
| 10 man the ships. and handle the guns
Ii The need arises. | should be ashamed
| 10 see this nation play the part Of a
weaklins. But | would rather see il
play its part frankly than see it boast
| OF What il was and then so handle it
| sell that if any one questioned the boa /
| W" should have to ietract from VIVA,
We assumed because We lacked the
| power 10 make our words good.
| | earnestly hope hat o1r foreign
policy shall be continued absolutely
Without regard 10 change OF admins
| 'atlon. to change of PARTY. along the
lines Of treating every foreign nation
| va ON I'VSSlDI'' respect. III dNOltln2 al
| proNoct lions for war. fo: trouble of
any Kind. of taking every step possible
| 10 minimize the chance Of trouble oc-
| ""rrii!g: and ii the same lime of TAX
ing every step possible to see to it that
| l. any chance trodble does occur. we 40
not come out second best (applause,
| just At this moment. to illustrate
what J mean we have negotiated Ger
| tain a"bitra ton treaties with the great
| Foreign powers. | most earnestly hope
| that those arbitrator treaties will be
come part Of the supreme law of the
'anc. Every friend o. peace will join
heartily in seeing that those arbitration
| treaties do barom" part of the supreme
| law Of the land. By adopting them we
I'Will have taken q step. no: a very long
| step. but undoubtedly a step in the Ii
r"ction If miuImiZin" the chance for
any trouble that night result iii war.
we will have in measurable degree pro-
vided 70 ri method Of substituting in
ternationally disputes other that of war
IS regards certain subjects. and as re
| g3rdS the par.icular nations with
whom these treaties are regulated.
| We can test the sincerity of these
people devoted 10 peace largely by see
| ing whether this peoI 10 Goes i'm effer-
tive fashion desire To have those trea-
ties ratified. TO nave those treaties
adopted. | have proceeded upon the
presumption that this nation was sin
Cere when il said that it desired peace
that all proper steps To provide against
| the Likelihood of war ought to be taken ;
and these arbitration treaties represent
precisely those steps. But The adoption
| Ct those treaties ny themselves would
not brins peace. We are 2 good many
years short of the mile mum yet: and
FIR tie present and the immediate flu
ture. we can rest assured that the word
| OF the man Who is suspected of desir-
| ing peace because he is afraid of war
| VIII count for but little.
| What we desire is tC have it eVidan
| that this nation seeks peace not be-
| cause it is afraid but because it be-
licves in the ernal and immutable
| lMvs of justice and OF right living. Cap
riausc). The lefore, hand in hand with
the negotiation o. treaties of that char
acter, hand III hand with the effort to
PIT our foreign relations with every
nation on a better footing must go The
steady upbuiliing of the army and the
navy: above all the navy. so that our
national honor nay b. sure of an AIDE
duate Safeguard should cur national
ever be active'v menacAd. CApplause'.
The President then addro ssed him
Golf more directly to the graduates say
| ing: the one ,hig that YOU all must
r-men.ber. is that :'Ou ought to bend
| anaroia. tn tipO
selves as YOU can olly be fitted by tn"
most careful training in advance for
the possible supreme day when upon
your success of your failure will le
pend not only whether your own lives
| will be crowned with triumph or blast
Cd with ruin. but whether the nation
will or will not wri'a a l.ase of glory
or a page of sha 10 on her history There
is not one of you who is nCt derclict in
| his duty to the whole r.a;ion if he fails
II prepare himself with all the strength
taat IN him lies to his duty should the
occasion arise and one of your great
duties is to s"e that shots hit. CAP
| plause,.
| Every naval action that has taken
place within III" last 20 years in which
| our own ships have been engaged Or
| in which any foreign ships have been
| engaged has shown Us n rule that tho
defeated party has suffered not from
! lack of courage. but because it could
not make the best use of its weapons.
| o.. had not been given the right wean-
onS Occasionally of course. if the VIC
| tor happened To be matched against
| the people who did not show courage.
| the courage counted. But | want every
one here to proceed upon the assump-
ton that any zoe NJ may meet will
| have the courage.
| The reason that yOu are trained here
| the reason that you are put through
| this academy: the reason that your
training goes on in che service is be
cause without that training no man
| can hone to do the work that YOU
| should do No other body of men -
| your age in orr country own so much
| than the United States to the flag thai
symbcliZes this ration. as you do. No
other poCy ii young men has. on the
| average. as araat chance as each of
| you has 10 lead a life Of honor to HIM
self and of bnnefit to the country a:
| large Deen will be our shame if yOn