The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-23

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 right eousness is clear and emphatic.
 Never since the beginning of our country's history has the navy been used in an unjust war Never has it failed tc render great and sometimes vital service to the republic. It has not been too strong for our good, though often not strong enough to do all the good it should have done. Our possess sion of the Philippines, our interest in the trade of the Orient, our building the isthmian canal, our insistence upon the Monroe doctrine, all demand that our navy shall be of adequate size and for it's size of unsurpassed efficiency. If it is strong enough I believe it will min imize the chance of OUT being drawn into foreign war. If we let it run down it is as certain as the day that sooner or later We shall have to choose be- tween a probably disastrous foreign war or peace kept on terms that inn ply national humiliation. Our navy is the surest guaranty of peace and the cheapest insurance against war, and those who, in whatever capacity, have helped to build it up during the past twenty years have been in good faith observing and living up to one of the most important of the principles which Washington laid down for the guidance of his countrymen. Nor was Washing ton the only one of our great presidents who -ei ,oafrinfiSy,7 Inv support of the navy. When Andrew Jackson was in congress he voted for the first warships we ever built as part of our regular navy; and he voted against the grant of money to pay our humiliating tribute to the pirates of the Barbary States. Old Hickory was a patriot through and through, and there was not an ounce of timidity in his ma ture, and of course he felt only indig- nant contempt for a policy which pur- chased an ignoble peace by cowardice instead of exacting a just peace by showing we were as little willing to submit to as to inflict aggression, Had a majority of Jackson's colleagues and successors felt as he did about the navy, had it been built up instead of being brought to a 5standstill, it would probably never have been necessary to fight the war of 1912. .F s-
 Again, Washington said: Give to mankind the example of a people al- ways guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.' This feeling can be shown alike by our dealings within and with out our own borders. Taft and Wright in the Philippines and Wood in Cuba have shown us exactly how to practice this justice and benevolence, in dealing with other peoples-a justice and be- nevolence which can be shown, not by shirking our duty and abandoning to self-destruction those unfit to govern them, but by doing our duty by staying with them and teaching them how to govern themselves, by uplifting them spiritually and materially. ere at home we are obeying this maxim of Washing tons just so far as we, help in every movement, whether undertaken by the government, or as is, and should be, more often the case, by voluntary ac- tion among private citizens, for the bet terment of our own people. Observe that Washington Speaks both of justice anu DGllGNUlSllGS, l11ele AAS PNsS tice first. We must be generous, we must help our poorer brother, but, above all, we must remember to De just; and the first step toward securing Justice is to treat every man on his worth as a man, showing him no spe- cial favor, but so far as may be holding open for him the door of opportunity so that reward may wait upon honest and intelligent endeayor. .Es.
 Again Washington said: Cherish public credit. Just at the moment there is no attack on public credit, but if ever the temptation arises again let our people at the outset remember that the worst because the most insidlous, form of the dishonest. debtor is that man who would persuade him that 1t IS anything but dishonest for him to re-. pudiate his debts.
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 stFinally, it is peculiarly appropriate, when [ have come to this city as the guest of the University of Pennsyl- yania, to quote another of Washing tons rnaxilms: Promote as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a gov ernment lgives force to public opinion, it is essential that the public opinion should be enlightened" Education may not make a man a good citizen but most certainly ignorance tends to prevent his being good citizen. Washington was far too much of a pa- triot. had far too much love for his fellow citizens, to try to teach them that they could govern themselves un- less they could develop a sound and enlightened public opinion. No nation can permanently retain free govern ment unless it can retain a high aver age of citizenship; and there can be no such high average Of citizenship without high average of education, using the word in it's broadest and tru- est sense to include the things of the soul as well as the things of the mind. School education can never supplant or take the place of self-education, still less can it in any way take the place of those rugged and manly qualities which we group together under the name of character; but it can be of enormous use in supplementing both. It is a source of just pride to every American that our people have so con sistently acted in accordance with WaShington'S principle of promoting