The National tribune., 1908-05-14

: The first official dispatch to reac
d the Navy Department from Admire
f Evans since he left the Connecticu
: three weeks ago announced his arrive
:. at the lightship after having gon
= aboard the Connecticut at Montere!
: The Connecticut proceeded from Mon
0 terey to Santa Cruz, from which poin
a it led the entire fleet. including auxii
i iaries and the second torpedo fiotill
t to the lightship.
$ But, alas. Every cup of sweet seem
7 to have its bitter. At the end of thi
5 long, splendid cruise the great Rear
Admiral is going to suffer and it will
5 be an ache that medicinal gums ant
waters cannot heal. Somebody ha.
5 got TO tell him that the light of hi
eyes, the hope of his declining years
: little "Rob' Evans Sewali. is dead. Th'
{ little lad is the son of his daughter
and just four bright Summers hat
!, kissed his curly locks. He was, hi.
grandfather's constant companion from
the first day he was carried out of the
nursery. He bo.e his grandfather's
name, and he loved the sailor dress
He was desirous of being 'tsailorman
like grandpa" and wore the uniform
always. He sickened and died in Just
a few days, and it was planned that
his grandfather should not be told the
sad news until after the arrival at San
Francisco
What a glorious welcome it was that
greeted the. greatest naval display on
earth when that magnificent line OF
| battleships passed in at the Golden
Gate, The thought of it all makes a
fellows heart swell so that his body
will hardly contain it. If President
Roosevelt had never done anything else
In his whole career but send that bat
tleship fleet around the world that
would make him live in song and story
IL Is one of the most tremendous object
lessons the world has ever had 1t is
battleship fleet, but does not mean
war; it is battleship fleet but it car
ries in every gun, from the saucy little
"musketo Skiffs" to the giant flagship.
peace on earth, good will to men,"
We nave boasted of our prowess on
land and on sea, and the walls of the
world wear pictures of our great en-
glnes of world-power destruction: we
have had miles of newspaper stories.
and the crowned heads of the Old
world have sent many representatives
over here on friendly visits, ostensi-
nly, but also to spy us out and see if
our military and naval Adjustments
are really as big as our boasts. But
even the confirmatory reports that these
all make are as nothing compared with
the ocular demonstration of those miles
of sea=fghting monsters. The sun
never sets on the American flag. Just
bear that in mind. A little over 400
years ago, when the West World was
a speck on the maps of the globe, that
was Spain's proud boast
tfH
Two centuries later Holland was
making the same claim, and yet a little
later England was able to saw the same
thing of her dominions after the Cab
OTIS, OF Spain, had made her secure in
the West World discoveries. To-day
Admiral Evans's big fleet is saying to |
the world what Webster said of Eng
land in a speech May Z, 1884, just "A |
years exactly to the day that Evans |
entered San Francisco harbor Just |
read the paragraph as uttered by the |
great statesman on the Senate floor |
The Colonies raised their flag against |
a power to which. for purposes of for
eign conquest and subjugation, Rome
in the hight of her glory is not to be |
power which has dotted |
over the surface of the whole globe
with her poss essions and military posts.
whose morning drumbeat following
the hours, circles the earth with one
and unbroken strain of the
martial airs of England
Webster, alive, would have to change
only about three words to make that
same speech applicable to the United
States to-day.
Oh, this is a great country all right.
And any Nation or combination of Ma
TONS will have another think coming
before they attempt to "subjugate" us.
Ii Is perfectly safe to say that thel
powers of the world could not over
come us if they were so evil disposed
as to try. The foes that we have most
TO dread are within. CommerciaIism
and the vices of the degenerate rich
Kill patriotism, and when the fires of
patriotism burn low Nation is on the
decline Demonstrations like that in
Golden Gate harbor last week indicated
hat the flag is still in the sky.
There are more ways of killing a
cat than choking it on pudding, YOU
know. Congress has found this out.
An omnibus bridge bill, the first
measure OF its kind to be framed and
introduced in Congress. was reported
'avorably by the House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The
Dill authorizes the construction of PAL
bridges in various parts of the country.
These two dozen distinct authorize
ions were consolidated i'm one act on
account of the Democratic filibuster in
progress in the House, and by this
means 23 roll-call votes on the floor
will be escaped. I
How does the saloon strike you asl
an educator? Here is what one of it's
advocates declares:
THE American saloon is the poor
mans club" said Mr.. Mccarthy before
the Congressional Committee sit is
he nearest approach to absolute DEM
1cracy in the United States 1t is the
greatest college without books, and
here is more good in the average sa- IT,:
Don than dreamed of in our modern
True temperance is the
Ultimate goal of the saloon"
1t is dead cinch that the saloon is
not poor mans savings bank, for,
according to Mr.. McCarthy's own state
nent, 100000 drinks pass over the
oars OF Washington alone during the ,
'ear. Now, If these drinks at this poor
mans club average 10 cents each
we'll, look at the money those poor men h
;ouid have saved by putting it in a
,ank. Shucks! What is the sense OIL
alking such utter rot as that?
Secretary Straus, of the Department.
II Commerce and Labor, has made anI
exhaustive reply to a resolution passed I
)y Congress more than year ago re- ,
luesting information concerning pat
snts granted to officers and employees +
II the Government on articles used nv
he Government. The preliminary in
Iuiry developed 253 cases, apportionedl
imong the Executive Departments asi
ollews: .