The San Francisco call., 1908-05-06
IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY. THE FLEET IS AT HOME

Golden
gate become the OF far flung battle line ready
fight a frolic S froic enough, mixed
business and discipline Count California and San Francisco in
the program We play game for all it
hearts upon sleeves for Jack He welcome the
bully boy with glass eye wndward He will find San Fran
cisco little dshgured but still in the ring. We
gsy throw sponge Sl stands the city,
OF continents whose sheerng today hold within their
ample symbols expression power
majesty great nation OF California mean to make the
sailors realize that they much home these
they accustomed roadsteads on the other
OF the continent
The ships within shelterng arms OF the bay are
but the always OF the breed The spirit temper
and dash OF the American the OF
These qualities by inheritance and the type persists
Should occasion the Farragut Dewey
will be there The fighting Wnsow Poers Wordens and Cush
ng WI" have their worthy successors at the appointed hour O
such the who give up the ship, what
extremity We hnd another Lawrence Paul Jones
in the hour of need
They boys visitors, yet belong
the family They OF whom the nation may very well
be proud In all their vivid manhood and their splendid vitality
they likewise show the gentleman The character
Of the personnel higher than that other navy The ancient
e OF the drunken sailor not be found them One
thing demonstrated by this voyage that the may be trusted
with liberty in home foreign ports without offending the sens
biities OF quiet folk ashore.
policy that catches them young and trains them
70 be gentlemen and eaen The rousabout type wholly
in the contemporary American navy # used t be said that the
OF British of up raping
sTapings Of HE'LL rounded up from the
be licked into shape by the tails and the fear OF ball
cartridge the hands Of the marine corps There such ships
the American navy and that style OF recruiting
country Thanks training schools the
good responsible go aboard
They can be trusted to do anything and anywhere whether it
is picnic O battle.
We presence Of these waters is
symbolic and that is than not alone
the show of 1t is the visible sign given that Pacific
has already become the eater great
II be the battle-ground but that and
prepared The strong hand of Uncle
to the fronded slopes Of Hawaii The guns heard
the OF Luzon and the still Philippines
tenth anniversary Of Deweys victory the
American flag dominant Pacific We wish the old
man were here to what great results have flowed from his
gallant fight
The whole world watching the Pacific and the cunning
who keep OF things that doing and
with accord that the white mans burden
shoulders uphold these We shall whole
feet it may be- but large and important part will
facts imperative that may
and his eye far Theodore Roosevelt feet
is spirit of exatation boasng with which we
welcome the feet The temper the bully or the
bragga not here This great peaceful seeking
quarrel anywhere and giving oens ready
would that they should do forgetting
responsibilities resting guarantor
the nations fronting the Pacific. It thus may
borrow the words fitted another occasion of like Significance
o our Fathers known of old
Lord of
Beneath whose awful hand hold
Dominion
Lord God of Hosts be with US
Lest forget-est forget
md the shouting dies
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands thine sacrifice,
An humble and contrite
Lord God of Hosts be with yet,
Lest foget-lest forgetl