Show HONORS TO THE BRAVE A movement has lately sprung up which is gaining increased support every day to revive the rank of admiral in the navy and confer it upon george dewey commander of tile the american oriental fleet at the philippine islands it is sl a timely sug suggestion Vestion and should not be permitted to pass into desuetude in the fitness of things nothing can be more fit than a great nation fully recognizing recognising deeds of merit and skill on the part of at the die defenders fenders ot of its honor and its standing in the world and what one of them has done abid d dared equal to bear Rear admiral DW dewey this is not meant invidiously by any means Sch leya leys great work at santiago measured by the immediate results and the wonderful judgment dispi displayed aved at a trying time may ev even n be classed as ou superior to that of manila where the spanish ships stood still and mett met their doom but it was as a hasty banty albeit successful dash compared with the deliberate and unchanging working out of a carefully arranged plan looking to mighty results all of which we were accomplished in full and in the presence of hidden as well as visible dangers all of deweys deleys work at al that time and since showed the mas terhand working in consonance conson consonance ince with the clear and balanced mind behind it this is only a parl the achievement of the destruction of fleet without loss to the destroyer although one of the greatest victories ever recorded in history might have resulted in grave calamities and disasters dire had dewey been only a fighter AS aa soon as the spars of the spanish ships were all of them that remained above the waves and the white flag fluttered fitfully from the masthead at ait cavatte a newer and graver responsibility was wa visited upon the american commander he was formerly a commodore commodor only now in addition to that a gru guardian ardlan of the peace pealie a protector of the right a defender of all that had been ga gained luied in other words the soldier to make his hia victory full orbed and permit no part of the great achievement to d dwindle must also be a statesman a diplomat a lawyer a cavalier he must mieno breaches of the luter i ante national code must do and permit to be done nothing VIDI vlola tive ELtive of the rights of our country or any other must at onte once preserve courteous relations with and maintain a reasonable distance between himself and the representatives of other pow 4 t ers must permit commerce trade and commingling com mingling within certain limits and know how to restrict it to those limits as well as how and when to punish ln in emotions of at the rul rules must know how to write any kind of note eithier either anally or in reply and in short must be an unfailing gubernatorial factotum dewey was equal to it all not one nils take was made not one point lost manila is in the possession of at the states the insurgents are placated cable communication is res restored thred and the march of occidental empire in oriental lands has begun dewey did it but he Is too really big bir to permit all the honors to fall to himself whenever he speaks ot of hl his tine the brave men and true who were with him through tt ft all receive their share of the mention and more he is in entirely deserving of the additional honors proposed and in order that they may be extended without wearisome delay let us as they say in the conventions make it unanimous |