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Roosevelt party, requesting the people
Ito go lightly in welcoming him. For
T this reason the program has been re-
viSed so the visitor will have plenty OK
| opportunity to get rest.
EurOpe's Wonder Aroused.
! In travelling in Europe last spring
/ one thing which especially struck me
was the fact that the two feats which
was the cruise of the battle fleet
around the world, and the digging OF
| the Panama canal" said Col Roose-
welt in his address. These were the
two feats TO be credited 10 rhe Ameri
can people during the past decade
which have most profoundly and ia
vorably affected the foreign judgment
of America during that time Such
/ judgment depends not in the least upon
what people say that they can do. but
on what they actually do; upon their
willingness to meet possibilities, and
the success of their efforts to meet
them.
Now, there is no use of nation
claiming to be great nation unless
II is prepared to play a great part. y
nation such as ours cannot possibly
play a great part in international af-
fairs. cannot expect to be treated as
a weight in either the Atlantic or the
Pacific, or to have its voice as to the
Monroe doctrine, or the management
of the Panama canal, needed, unless
X has a strong and thoroughly eff
cient navy.
Within the last decade, the Amer
lean navy has been about trebled in
strength and much more than trebled
in efficiency, due TO its extraordinary
progress in Workmanship and maneu
veting. So far from this increase in
naval strength representing on our
part either a menace of aggression to
weaker nations or a menace of war TO
stronger nations, it has told most pow
erfully for peace. Everywhere in Eu-
rope the cruise of the battle fleet
around the world was accepted, not
only as an extraordinary feat, reflect
ing the highest honor upon our navy,
but as one of the movements which
tended markedly TO promote peaceful
stability in international relations.
No nation regarded the cruise as
fraught with any menace Of hostility |
TO itself; and yet every nation accepted !
il as proof that we were not only de- J
sirOus Ourselves of keeping the peace /
but able TO prevent the peace being
broken at our expense. No cruise in
any way approaching it has ever been F,
made by any fleet of any other power: |
and the best naval opinion abroad had 1
been that no such feat was possible !
that IS, that no such cruise as that /
we actually made could be undertaken /
by fleet Of such size without innum- |
cradle breGkdowns and accidents The /
success of the cruise. performed as il I
was without a single accident, immeas-
urably raised the prestige, not only Of |
our fleet, but of aur nation; and was
a distinct help to the cause of inter !
national peace.
The Great Canal.
LAS regards the Panama canal, 1
really think the outside nations have
q juster idea than our own people Of
the magnitude and success of the work
wish our people realized what is be-
ing done on the Isthmus. If a man
of Intelligence who had never left this
him TO make a short trip to Europe, or
q trip to the Panama canal, 1 would !
without hesitation, advise him to go !
to the Panama canal. He would there
see in operation the completing of
one of the great feats of modern times. /
Colonel GOethals and the men work
ing under him are rendering a service
to this country which can only be par
illeled in our past history by some of
the services rendered in certain wars
Six years ago last spring the Amer
can government took possession of the
sthmus. The first two years were de-
voted to the sanitation of the iSthmus,
to assembling the plant and working
force, and providing quarters, food and
water supplies. In all these points,
he success was extraordinary. From
1ne of the plague-spots of the globe,
me of the most unhealthy regions in
he entire world. the isthmus has been
-urned into singularly healthy abode,
where the death rate is small and where
of children are now being
'aised under as favorable conditions as
II most parts of the United States.
The quarters, food and water supply |
ire excellent, and the plant the best
,ver gathered for such a purpose
The Excavations.
Active excavation on a large scale !
lid not begin until January 1907
Three years and half have gone by {
irce then, and three fifths of the to-
al excavation has already been accom-
'lished. The amount taken out has {
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