Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-02-22
PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
HONORED
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an idle dream, but a most mischievous
dream, to believe that mere refraining
| from wrongdoing will insure us against
being wronged. Yet, on the other hand
nation prepared for war is men
ace to mankind unless with good faith
and justice. In any community it is
neither the conscientious man who is
a craven at heart, nor the bold and
strong man without the moral sense
who is of real use TO the community;
it is the man who to strength and cour-
age adds a realizing sense of the moral
obligation resting upon him, the man
who has not only the desire but the
power to do his full duty by his neigh.
bor and by the state. SO, in the world
at large, the nation which is of use
in the progress of mankind is that ma
tion which combines strength of char
acter, force of character, and insstence
upon it's own rights, with fell ac.
knowledment of it's own duties toward
others. just at present the best way
in which we can show that our loyalty
to the teachings of Washington is a
loyalty of the heart and not of the
lips only is to see to it that the work
of building up our navy goes steadily
on, and that at the same time our
stand for international righteousness
is clear and emphatic.
Never since the beginning of our
country's history has tho navy been
used in an unjust war. Never has it
failed to render great and sometimes
vital service to the republic. 1t has
not been too strong for our good,
though often not strong enough TO do
all the good il should have done. Our
possession of the Philippines, our in
forest in the trade of the Orient, our
building the Isthmian canal, our insist.
ence upon the Monroe doctrine, all der
mand that our navy shall be of ade-
quate size and for it's size of unsur.
passed efficiency, II it is strong
enough l believe It will minimize the
chance of our being drawn into foreign
war, II we let it run down IL is as
certain as the day that sooner or later
we shall have 10 choose between
probably disastrous foreign war or
peace kept ON terms that imply ma
tional humiliation. Our navy is the
surest guaranty Of peace aud the
cheapest insurance against war, and
those who, IN good faith observing
and living up TO one OF the most i'm,
portant ~ the principles which Wash.
ington laid down for the guidance of
his couutrymen. Nor was Washing
ton the only one OF our great Prcsi-
dents who showed far sighted patriot,
ism by support Of tho navy. When
Andrew jackson was i'm congress he
voted for the first warsbips we ever
built AS part of our regular navy; aud
he voted against the grant of money
Go pay our humiliatiug tribute TO the
pirates Of the Rarbary states. old
Hickory was patriot through and
through, and thyro was uot au ounce
ot timidi,y iu his nature, aul Of course
ho felt only indignant contempt for
policy which purchased am iguoble
peace by ,owarli,e instead of exactiug
"a jus, peace by showing Ne we're as
little willing 60 submit 90 as TO iuaict
aggression. Had a majority OF Jack
son's colleagues aud SUCCESSORS felt as
he did about the navy, had il been
buils uP instead ot being brought to
standstin, &c would probably never
been necessary 20 hght the war OF
lSls.
Again Washington said, "Give % |
nankiad the example of a people Al.
Ways guided hy an exalted justice and
oeneyolenee" This feeling can be
'Aown ALIKE ny eur dealings within
ma without car owa beFderS Taft
.aa wrigat ia the Philippines aud
M ool Ia Cuba have shawn "a ax.eti,