The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-02
TWO GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
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decade whlrh bad most profoundly
ard fayotabfs affected foreign Iude-
mou' Of America during that time.
Such Judgment depends not in the
least upon what people say they can
do. but on what they actually DO
upon their willingness 10 meet So
sponsibilltIfs, and the success Of
their efforts to meet them
Now. there Is no use of nation
claiming TO be a great nation unless
it d. prepared 10 play a great part.
a nation such as ours cannot posi-.
bly, play great pa1t in international
affairs cannot expect 10 Doe treated
as "a weight either in the AtlauUa
or the Pacific. or to have ite voice
rs To the Monroe Doctrine. or thei
management OF The Panama canal, /
teeied. unless 1t has strong and
Thoroughly efficient navy. Within
the last decade the American navy
has been about trehled II strength /
and much more than trebIed IN
efficiency, due 10 its extraordinary
progress in Workmanship and
maucuycriug. So far from this in |
crease In naval strength represent |
irg on our part either menace of
aggression to weaker nations or q /
menace of war to stronger nations, /
it has told most powerfully for
peace. Everywhere in Europe the /
cruise of the battle fleet around the |
world was accepted. not only as an /
extraordinary feat, rejecting the +
highest honor upon our navy. but
as one of the movements which +
tended markedly to promote peace I
full stability in international reIa-
lions, No nation regarded the cruise
as fraught with any menace of hos
tility to itself; and yet every nation .
accepted it as proof that we were .
not only DESTROYS ourselves to keep
the peace, but able to prevent the .
peace being broken at our expense |
No cruise in any way approaching |
of any other Power; and the best
naval opinion abroad had been that !
no such feat was possible. that is.
that no such cruise as that we actual
" made could be undertaken by
fleet of such size without innumer-
able breakdowns and accidents. The
success of the cruise. performed as :
il was without a single accident. i'm
measurably raised the prestige. not
only of our fleet, but of our Ma
ton; and was a distinct help to the
cause of international peace.
AS regards the Panama Canal, I
really think that outside nations have
a juster idea than our own people
of the magnitude and success Of the
work wish our people realized
what is being done on the Isthmus.
II q man of intelligence who had
never left this country asked me
whether / would advise him to make
a short trip to Europe, or a trip to
the Panama Canal, 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 SER
vice to this country which can only
be paralleled in our past history by
some Of the services rendered In