Show UR FOREIGN POLICY DEFINED DEFINE Never Draw Unless You Mean t to toI I Shoot Says the President 1 i ii i T NAVY VY IS NEEDED I I With Spain II 1 r rr TUo Dulled b Dominant In III the theR R 1 W 2 A pushed tho presidents car on t tl the ferryboat on t crossed tho Columbia river from Oregon Itoda today had a IIvo bear cub attached t ta to a II pol on Oil tho tender The president WIUS is greatly Interested In Ihn tel tellow low and boarding the engine ens Inc putted It ItI lis I head hend The bear benr ht to appreciate th tho 3 honor that was paid hm him however nm while the tho train was being shunted on t to the terry ferry signified his hili disapproval dl Or uj guttering uttering baby growls WELCOMED WJ TO TACOMA TACO A At t Under Und r a II favoring blue tk the f dents train rolled Into the Northern Northen depot promptly at lit 4 I I afternoon A multitude l thronged the thi I streets about the th station and rent the thi f with cheers cheon Mayor Campbell en entered entered tho car and welcomed the j i dent Little LIllie time was lost In tho reception While tho Introduction tc to tho committee was made the guns gung o oi of i the revenue cutter McCulloch 1 lying Ir In tho harbor gave a II salute of 21 guns j As the tho president emerged from the tho thoI i I canopy of liaRs flags at the station und and en entered the accompanied by Gov Mayor Campbell l and Secy Bocy Joeb the clowd broke broko into In to cheers which the president acknowledged edged Fifteen carriages swung Int line while an escort of mounted mOUn ted police und cavalry formed a guard aguan At Division avenue tho escort of 0 n nA A R H and war vet veterans el erans dropped out of tho Iho and the president was given a through the residence section pausing many ol of tho school buildings where the children grouped save gave him himon nn on enthusiastic reception AH the bust busl 11 n nd residence streets vero pro profusely tUB decorated with flags fes fos festoons Picture of the president to be seen on nil sides ldes The streets i vere packed with enthusiastic people nd the tho demonstrations kept tho president dent bowing his acknowledgements Aside ABIde from Iroll the presidential party pari the distinguished guests In carriages among others Senators A 0 G Fos Foster Foster ter and Senator LeI of 01 Wash Washington ington Senator Benator Mitchell of or Oregon i Congressmen Cushman Jones Humphrey of Washington Funston ll Bleeker commandant of ot tho naval station nt lit Bremerton President C S Mellon of oC the Northern Pacific Capt HO U B S N Capt Coulson commander comma of ot the revenue cutter cutler McCulloch a u number of mayors of neighboring cities While the tho drive about the city dt was In r progress the crowd thronged Wright where the th president was to ad lid address J dress the people leople About the grand grandstand stand were massed the theO G A R n and I veterans while a I cordon of ot police kept th tM way clear To 10 the beautiful attraction of the park had been b en lidded added the embellishments of ot lavish decorations In flags bunting and triumphal arches The Tho bright columns columnA of o women and children and the vivid lId gret of the tho shrubbery combined to 10 tomake make a brilliant scene of lire life and color Wild cheering chee and college collee veils vell burst bur t forth as nil tho president upon the tho Ho bowel bowed and took his hili seat Ie in a n magnificent chair made of ot horns a gill gift to him He lie noticed the and expressed his admiration to 10 Without delay Mayor MIUor Campbell Stepped forward and Introduced thi th proficient who was o ln greeted with witha a n hurst of cheers which he acknowledged ed edA A TEXAS TROOPER down nt lit tho lean can veterans the president said h ho understood a n man who was In his hll reg regiment In Cuba was in iiI the tho ground and he invited him to come upon tho th plat platform form Mayor Campbell then presented Otto Winter Inter who Iho was as a Texas trooper In the tho Cuban campaign n The shook his hand cordially and sal Were you the Te Will WillIm W II Im glue to ecu fiCO you How lire are yon gutting along ahl tho th president his hili hand warmly warm again lie he heo nuked o ked the committee ns nil a U personal fa In favor Inor vor or Winter be bl allowed to accompany Jan pany the party on the steamer tomor tomorrow toW row on the on the sound The president then spoke as II follows PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Mr Ir Mayor you ou my Fellow Citizens U Is III tho greatest pleasure to tome me 2110 to have come conle this through h the southwestern rn part of or this Brent grent beautiful I state now to have seen en your our beautiful on all I to express my lilY a at to the men of th III Grand Army Arm find to my comrades les of oC the Spanish war for tor having come out outto oll to reet mu me 1 J also wl I h to tn express a 1 particular word of greeting to the thc del CHIPS to the tho Sunday Hun ay school con Cn convention who ho have hlo como come here today to t sn ny how holl glad glud I T am nm to sec s them though I am m to IC this marvelous prosperity In which the tho sUto of to abundant abundantly ly 13 rejoices I am oven more pleated d to ECO ce the evidences In every through which I pass of the J purpose e of people to build r t st material the higher without which prosperity by Itself Itc lf cn un havo hao no durable basis basIl basIlI I believe In III your our people In my poo because I that they hov hovI I In them not the power to win success in lit actual attaint to bull Mitt to turn the tho wilderness In Into Info to fo a gal gat den to build commerce factories but LUt become I think that they have power upon that as a II basis ba to r ral i 9 a II structure of ot clUte based upon decency upon and high thinking upon the vir virtu Ir tu tUPI 3 that make men good citizens In n their trillion relation to the state and the nation MUOI OUR oun FOREIGN ION POLICY I wish to my M one this after afternoon noon to 10 you hero heto In this till city ell of or destiny In 11 this city by b the sound on our foreign policy und upon what must mu ever bo 11 the tho main prop of or any nn coot lorem policy the navy nM In hi Inthe hith the th old day dar when I tame to tho Little U I there was WAI a II motto mollo m II tho range Never draw unless IU mean to hOllI That Is a 11 pretty olley for Cor a 11 nation In foreign affairs Do not threaten do not blus bluy bluster tel ter do not other 01 her people oil nU but Lut when you mako tip up that ilia th flirtation Is 18 such at al to t require ton to WHO tl O 1 position ink It h o It 11 definitely understood t ol that what hat you Ou say you aro 1110 ready reldy to lu make rood I 1 et nid of course 1 I hope with all my m heart that there thero always bo the United s and other but I 1 to come com I to us Ua not as n favor grunted In III contempt but to bd b bIho tho Iho kind of p that comes to the just arm larm U d the peace penco that thaI we wo can us ns 11 It matter of right Of ot It In II the tho merest 1 truism to nay that the best WilY way to ki p peace is to show that ou are hot of war r If It unjustly treated tre ltd or wron cd The iM events of tho last fow years have hlo shown that ci wo 0 whit or 01 not o must play n Bleat pall pail In the th It Is not open to decide whether or not Ilot wo 0 will It 11 All that la III open ope II to UH ua to decide deehl I whether or not oot wo will play It II well ond I 1 my countrymen toi 10 thoroughly to have any In doubt na nn to 10 what their will be he Vou fou men nen of ot the Civil war var fought to t keep UK liS a nation mitton to make mako us really reul y ono on nation You fought tho greatest wor of o the tho kind and because you dared to 10 light fight for lor four years you ou have havo fewer r Insured Internal peace Ilea co for lor forthe the republic Pence Peace camo amo to us for lOr all 1111 you dared to fight and the people who In your day da called for pence at ny If It they had had their way would doomed us to generation of ot struggle to generations of ur war 60 So you my own comrades of tho army and the navy In III 03 and the years cara Immediately following by b what you did you gave b e this nation an as ns assured position such as It could have ac acquired In no n other way and you made It Infinitely less liable not 1101 more liable that we should over for Instance havo serious trouble with any all nation us liS to the tho Monroe Monr O doctrine DOMINANT POWER POWEn ON PACIFIC Tho events of at that ar moreover showed that the Ih United d States had to 10 tobe be a dominant power on Pacific ocean Our Interests ill III the tho trade that goes across aeron that ocean are nuch u h our positions of command in reference to tho Iho ocean lire are ouch Uch must have havea a II decisive say In Its 1111 future We can only havo that Ray RUY In peace by building up adequate navy If It wo fall to build then nomo mo Imo some great power throwing off the re restraint of ot International morality will take some step against us relying rel upon the Iho of ot our navy nty and again I know my countrymen und and I J know that In such cues cases they would fight anyhow and our own Interest 1 ask Ilsk you to 10 see to It that do not 1101 light with the odds against you and above all that th t by preparing you obviate all need whatever of or fight fighting ing at nil all SUREST BUH Sr GUARANTY OF PEACE The Tho surest guaranty guarani of peace Is IR nn adequate navy The Jest best possible as assurance assurance o agaInst war Is II adequate navy I 1 ask uk for tor a t navy primarily be because JP cause It Is the tho surest means of keeping pence and also If war does come surely there thero bo no American who will tolerate the Idea of having anything other than a successful In tho lighting in Manila and In San Santiago Santiago tiago In 1893 1898 In which ouch Kuch ships as the and the Oregon named here from the northwestern coast built on the Pacific ocean did their part what controlled the issue of those lights what was done nt III the moment 1 No the tho preparation that had been made In III advance The ships that won the victories of Manila Manne and Santiago been built years before when there was no thought have been no thought though I of war with Spain In n we a navy composed of at antiquated war craft unfit to go against a modern battleship as O the gal galleys galleys leys in which Rome Home and Carthage taught fought for or mastery mORtery of ot tile the eon ean If It at n tony any time lime we had been put In such a II position ns we wo were In 1698 bitter humiliation hava hao been In store loro for tor us before we eventually won IVan for mind you I we would have eventually Von on anyhow Hut I do not nol want to too ee a n generation of humiliation precede tho victory We won because we prepared In advance We Wo built the ships established tho ship yards crt cre created the armor plants created gun laundries foundries and we made ships which In hulls Kims and engines need to fear no comparison with those of other powers and then put the men on them and trained the men to 10 do their part In bat battle tle THE SHOTS THAT COUNT The only shots that count are tho shots that lilt hit I believe In marksman marksmanship ship In marksmanship afloat You and I my In comrades who fought had a II simpler task In learning how to tb dl our weapons Most of us knew knell something of the In advance if we did not we had our time learning It Hut get In a u big ship and man who Iho has hils been on one OM knows It Is n mighty complicated delicate bit of machinery To 10 han dle the Runs hun i In tho th gun gun turret to handle the tho ship Itself tho train trainIng trainIng Ing t You Tou inn ln tako toko the tho best beet men alive and rut them upon one oneat of at our modern battleships und unless they have Md tho fact luct that thaI they the are the beat men live will not help them They havo riOt jot to have havethe havethe the training and It was because our and l mm well trained well that when the tho crucial minute clime came we wo not nol only enly won but we wo w n nt at a n minimum of or lost los to 10 ourselves arid a maximum of damage to the tho enemy U 1 is II n 1 to 10 como come to together gether and congratulate upon tho great deeds of till but that la Is lanot not tho way to 10 prepare preparo for great deeds In the future In 61 at the tho men rn n of or the civil war won Willi not by attending Fourth of or July celebrations not by what had b bee cn dune dene by tho men of tho revolution hut but by turning In them FelveR to try tr to distance th the deeds of the revolution That 1 18 how hoV you did It wo of the younger generation I helped by your example because wo 6 felt that what you lad had done did not note effort but bul required r us croupe e oU O us 11 to try to rise level loel o 0 the tho great deeds of the past tf jt PREPARE TUB TUE NAVY J I ask that you ou till of at the tha you we till the sovereigns 80 therefore you are not to 10 be bo ex ox excused if It you do llo not l your our sov sovereignty Sovereignty to It that the ork of preparing the navy nn vy In time of ot pence penco did Its goes on The fhe lust duty dut no more than Its lis duty duly by going gain gainon on with tho Iho building up of tho see sel to 10 It that the next Congress ends with n record as IS good If wo 0 stop sloP wo we go back The only oaly way Voy to do doIn doIn In building up tho navy n In h to I keep on with It to 10 provide tho ships and aM to pro they the shall be the best of their kind and then to provide for tOI the th men cm them and for training at III till thi great guns uns and In Ilea nea practice win will make them In their turn tits best ot their thell kind 1 I do not nol want to 10 I believe that the tho Ainer Amer Iran Icon fighting man If It you will wm give glo him hill hima hilla a chance is III at least t ns good as any anyone an anone one that the tho on our ships In our will do that I we weI can eun demand of or mm 11 II m him the chance and ho Is such Buch sucha a II good man mun I ask you elve him the chance It has been a n great ond a areal real pleasure uro to see Bce you The presidents remarks to the G O A R n men alid the American veterans were particularly pleasing Incidents of or the park por Ho also shook hands with tho as al ashe he was the stand Hla 1111 recognition war state Bun Bunday tion of 0 the delegates to the day School association WIl 1 thought thoughtful noted ful CuI courtesy one of ot the tho most marks of oC the which endears him to the people His received with address at the tho park Will was frequent shouts of approval and ap applause AT MASONIC TEMPLE T IPIE leaving the park the Masonic grand Krand On lodge of ot Wellington l gether the grand commander Knight a Templar With tho of Ta Tacoma coma and aliI Seattle tic swords In line Sed escorted the president to the site of or the Masonic temple where the president laid the tho cornerstone All the surround buildings were occupied by ealer Ipg every available window and A root roof swarming with V lit humanity thousand Millions and Templar In the Impressive ceremonies The president made mado a n few tew remarKS saying Brothers I shall say but one word It has hili been a 11 great pleasure to 10 me to 10 take part In tn the tho laying of stone and I trust that the building thereon will be In very deed d as aswell well na oS In name devoted to friendship and virtue and all of at those purposes which we hold dear I 1 a k that each ellch man hero here BO so conduct himself that the principles which v 10 o profess may ma be 1111 bereal real vitalizing Influences In III our ourIves lives Ives In Iii our relations with one another and with the outside world When the president stepped down from the platform pia Horm to lay IllY the I corner cornerstone cornerstone stone he shook hands llanelli with the tho mason who handed him the trowel and as the president 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