New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-31

much an injury. and so public men, pub
lie writer's. need steadily to keep before their
to US by speaking extensively of any one else,
and trouble may come. The surest way for a
nation TO invite disaster Is to be opulent, ag.
gressiVe and unarmed. I trust that we shall
never be aggressive unless aggression is not
merely justified, but demanded either by our
own self-respeCt or for the interest OF mankind,
And, finally, remember that to be aggressive,
above ALL to be aggressive IN speech and not
TO be armed. invites not merely disaster, but
the contempt Of mankind
GOOD NAVY MAKES FOR PEACE
Brooklyn not only furnished valiant soldiers
to the Civil War, but 1t furnished In time Of
peace e most excellent Secretary to the navy Of
the United States. If our navy is good enough
befora Hs rbe CnlI, itlSaIbbond % t-d,.tIi 49,, -
coming to US as a nation will arise If we let our
navy become too small or inefficient first
first class In point of efficiency and the indi-
vidual unit units in combination, is the surest
and cheapest guarantee of peace. I should think
that any man, looking at what is happening and
has happened abroad and in our own history
curing the last few years must, indeed, be
blind If he cannot read that lesson clearly.
General S1ocun gave his great public service
when crisis called not merely for the softer
and the milder, but the harder and the sterner
virtue, and we cannot afford in this day of ma
tertal luxury, in this state when civilization tends
to make life easy-We cannot afford to ignore
these hard and stern virtues In the work a
day world, not only in war, but in private life
and IN public life alike man has to have
even the best of intentions. He cannot afford TO
let the generation that Is coming up go up with
the feeling that any quality viii serve as a sub
stItute for the full the essential quality of man
liness IN a man or womanliness In q woman
Much, very much has been done in this coun-
try by education. No can overstate all that
this country owes forget the debt that this
country owes to the educators in taking advan-
tage Of all the improved methods Let us not
forget that there are certain qualities which are
not new, which are eternal because thew are
eternally true and the failure to develop will
small intellectual gain. A sound body is a first
class thing; sound mind is an even better
thing, but the thing that counts for most in the
individual as in the nation, is character (Ap-
plause)
PRAISE FOR THE VETERANS.
1t is one OF those qualities which make a good
man ana a good woman. And you men Of the
Civil War. you men TO whom this country owes
more than to any other no matter how great
the services OF those others may be because to
you this country owes its life and you won the
place you did. You won for this country its
salvation, because you had In you those quail
name of character. the qualities which made you
but material gain, material welIbeing, not before
the things which were greater when the crisis
for showing your manhood came.
You went to the war leaving those behind who
could make more money, who could rise in the
world but carrying with you in your hearts the
honor and the future Of a mighty nation. You
had in you. IN the first place, the right spirit
and then you had the quality Of making that
had patriotism, devotion to the Union and the
flag would have been nothing. You could not
have done much If your patriotism and your de-
votion to the flag had not been backed up by
your willingness 10 stay put in battle. You
showed IN the times that try mems souls what
this country has right to expect from it's sons
You had the supreme good fortune 10 display
your manhood in one Of the two great crises the
great crisis IN which the nation was born in the
days Of 1116 and the less great crisis in
which the nation was saved by the men Of 1861
You have left US only merely a reunited coun-
try but you have left us the glorious heritage Of
the exploits OF the qualities by which the coun-
try was left reunited. Our days have fallen, by
our good fortune. IN times OF peace. We have
not had to show the qualities that you showed
in the dark years that closed in the sunburst Of
Appomattox; and II We are to leave undimmed to
our children the heritage you left TO us must
show in peace. and, should the need ever arise in
war, also, the qualities that you showed, the
qualities that make Il now the pleasantest Of
all tasks for q public servant, who appreciates
the greatness OF America to come on an occa-
sion like this and the people Of great city
dedicating a monument IN honor of n great
citizen who at every point Of his career illus
trated what the name American should be when
II is used IN the sense of its highest and deepest
and its best significance.
FLOWERS FOR THE PRESIDENT.
AS Bishop Charles p Mcdonnell finished the
benedicticn members of Slocum Post Of the
Grand Army OF the Republic marched to the