Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-06-01
OUR NEED OF A NAVY
IT is AN EFFECTIVE MEANS FOR
PROMOTION OF PEACE.
Our Foreign Relations Safe In the
Hands of President RooseveIt-His
Counsels In the Spirit of Washing
ton-Justice Toward All.

Among Washington maXims bequeath-
ed TO his countrymen are: observe good
faith and justice toward all nations and
ITO be prepared for war is the most eff
factive means to promote peace These
two principles taken together should form
the basis of our whole foreign policy
President Roosevelt at University OF
Pennsylvania Feb. %.
These maxims of Washington, de
livered in his farewell address, We're
appropriately recalled by his latest sue
cessor when visiting the same instltu-
tion of learning for the same purpose
for which Washington came there 122
years ago.
And President Roosevelt's 5 answer to
tie question that naturally rose in
every mind on such an occaSion-the
question how Americans may best show
that their loyalty to the teachings of
Washington is of the heart and not OF
the lips only--was marked by all of
Washington's soundness of Judgment.
As long as there are on earth evil
men, by whom the counsels of nations
will be sometimes guided in evil ways,
all our resolutions to observe good
faith and justice" toward others viii
not assure US of like treatment from
others unless we also remember that
ito be prepared for war is the most
effective means to promote peace"
by it's fortunate geographical situa-
ton this nation is largel- delivered
from the burden of needing great ar
mics as safeguards of peace With US
the preparedness for war means chief
ly naval preparation.
We show our loyalty to the teachings
of Washington by seeing to it that,
while we steadfastly stand for inter
national right, our navy is such as to
enable US to maintain that position
against any probable attack AS the
president said:
Our possession of the Philippines,
our interest in the trade of the orient
our building he isthmian canal our
insistence upon the Monroe doctrine,
all demand that our navy be of ade-
guate size and of unsurpassed eff
cheney If it is strong enough ii Will
minimize the chance of foreign war.
If we let it run down sooner or later
we shall have to choose between a
probably disastrous foreign war and a
peace kept on terms that imply nation
al humiliation"
Many Americans may feel that in
this or that domestic question the atti-
tude and conduct of President RooSe-
welt may be open to criticism, but no
American can doubt that our foreign
relations are entirely safe in his hands
Int tn oh GOOD faith
and Justice toward all nations" is as
unquestionable as his insistence that,
lest our own virtues be abused 10y
those who lack them. we must with
strong navy "be prepared for war as
the most effective means to promote
peace.
AS long as it heeds and follows the
counsels of President Roosevelt this
nation will have peace with every
neighbor deserving peace, for those
counses are exactly in the spirit of
%ashington-Chic Inter Ocean.
Baker HoyvIed In Vain.
The house of representatives is TO be
complmented upon the dignilied man
ner in which it made futile the fren-
Zleu attempt OF meinDeT from lne
borough OF Brooklyn, one Baker, to
gain a little cheap notoriety by means
of an absurdly violent attack upon
the president of the United States.
Leaving Baker to howl in vain for ag
gressve action against him because of
what he had said and the resolution he
had offered, the house went calmly
about its regular business. The sen
ate In its most dignitied mood could
not have done better Albany Journal.