Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-23
WASHINGToN'S MAxIMS
REPEATED BY ROOSEVELT
CONTINUED From Page ~

on the other hand, nation prepared
for war is a menace to mankind I'M
the conscientious man who is a
craven at heart, nor yet 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
courage 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
neighbor and by the state. So, in the
world at large, the nation which is of
use In the progress of mankind Is that
nation which combines strength Of
character, force of character, and in
sistence upon its own rights, with a
full acknowledgment Of its own duties
toward others. Just at present the
best way in which we can show that
our loyalty to the teachings of Wash
ington 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 righteous
ness is clear and emphatic.
The Nays Place.
Never since the beginning of our
country's history has the 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 it should have done. Our
possession of the Philippines, our in
terest in the trade of the Orient, our
building the Isthmian canal, our in
sistence upon the Monroe doctrine, all
demand that our navy shall be of ade-
quate size and for it's size of unsur-
passed efficiency. If it is strong
enough believe it will minimize the
chance of our being drawn into for
eign war. If we let it run down it is
as certain as the day that sooner or
less the national purpose is to treat
other nations with good faith and JUS
tice. In any community it is neither
later we shall have to choose between
a probably disastrous foreign war or
a peace kept on terms that imply ma
tional 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 Wash
ington the only one of our great pres
idents who showed far-sighted patri
otism by 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 tc
pay our humiliating tribute to the
pirates of the Barbary states. Ole
Hickory was patriot through an6
through, and there was not an ounce
of timidity in his nature, and of course
he felt only indignant contempt for {
policy which purchased an ignoblt
| peace by cowardice instead of exact
/ ing a just peace by showing we were
as little willing to submit to as to in
flict aggression. Had a majority o
Jackson's colleagues and successor
felt as he did about the navy, had i
been built up instead of being brough
to a standstill, it would probably neve
have been necessary to fight the war o
4 1872
| Leaving the Academy of Music tn,
President was escorted to the armor,
of the First troop, where he was en-
itertained at luncheon.