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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March r, 1904. 



Referring to the presence of a secretary of the navy, Govern- 

 or Bates remarked that nine times in the history of the coun- 

 try this office had been filled from Massachusetts, and he felt 

 that the present incumbent was a worthy successor to the dis- 

 tinguished sons of the state who had preceded him. Introduc- 

 ing Congressman De Armond, the Governor said : 



It is also ray pleasant privilege to welcome one who comes this even- 

 ing as a good Democrat from Bates county, Missouri. [Laughter.] I 

 am hoping that before he gets through this evening he will explain how 

 it is that a Bates county down South sends a Democrat, when no such 

 county would be called a Bates county in Massachusetts. [Applause.] 

 We are glad to welcome him because of what we know of him, a man of 

 convictions, a man of force, a man who is a good and a fair fighter, and 

 a man who represents a great commonwealth. [Applause.] 



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President Apsley next introduced Secretary Moody as fol- 

 lows : 



Gentlemen : In my brief introductory remarks I referred to the 

 growing importance of the export trade in our branch of industry, and 

 I now call attention to the fact that in order to successfully compete 

 with other countries in the markets of the world, it is essential that the 

 flag of our nation should be respected by those with whom we would do 

 business. 



Commerce can only flourish where peaceful conditions prevail and 

 nothing contributes more to peaceful foreign relations than the protec- 

 tion of our 'rights in every quarter of the globe. This thought is em- 

 phasiied at this particular time by the conditions in the Far East, where 

 the commercial supremacy of either Russia or Japan, in that territory, 

 so largely depends on the strength of their respective navies 



It is, therefore, quite appropriate that we should be possessed of 

 information regarding the naval equipment of our nation, and we are 

 especially fortunate and feel greatly honored by having with us a citizen 

 of this commonwealth whom all our people delight to honor, one who 

 by his conspicuous services in congress, as well as by the high position 

 he now occupies, has done much to advance the interest of the nation. 



I now have the pleasure of introducing the Secretary of the Navy, 

 the Hon. William H. Moody. 



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Secretary Moody said that he always took delight in re- 

 sponding to the toast " The Navy." Possibly some present had 

 seen him referred to as "an impressive jingo " in the newspa- 



pers, in consequence of his response to the same toast in New 

 York the other night. " I fear that your President," he contin- 

 ued, " from what he has said is in the same class. He stated that 

 while I believed that I was a lover of peace — I know that I am 

 a lover of peace, gentlemen— that while I believed I was a lover 

 of peace, it was only because I believed that peace was best pre- 

 served by armament. If that is what he means by being a 

 ' jingo,' I plead guilty to the indictment. If the wish to use a 

 fair proportion of the enormous resources of this country in 

 the defense of the nation's rights upon the sea constitutes 'jin- 

 goism,' then again I plead guilty to the indictment. And I 

 have to say that I am in good company. [Applause.] " 



He would not call to witness all the distinguished men in 

 American history who had believed with him, but would only 

 refer to George Washington, who, in his second inaugural ad- 

 dress said : " The United States ought not to indulge the per- 

 suasion that contrary to the order of human events they will 

 forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with 

 which the history of every other nation abounds. If we desire 

 to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we desire to se- 

 cure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising 

 prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for 

 war." He was quite willing to be called a George Washington 

 jingo. [Applause.] 



He referred to the naval features of the war now in prog- 

 ress beyond the Pacific, but it was unnecessary to go to the 

 history of other lands to demonstrate the importance of sea 

 power. No nation had had lessons more sudden and more fre- 

 quent of the great importance of that power than our own, and 

 he recounted several instances, with the importance of their 

 bearing upon the history of the country. Secretary Moody 

 concluded : 



The first duty in time of peace is to prepare the navy so that it shall 

 be instantly ready to perform the function for which it is ultimately de- 

 signed. We have a big responsibility in the Carribean sea. It is there 

 the Monroe doctrine has its greatest application, and the Monroe doc- 

 trine is just as strong as the navy and no stronger. If we are strong 

 enough to enforce the Monroe doctrine we never shall have to do it. We 

 have a big responsibility to Cuba, We have a big responsibility to the 

 Philippines. I have no doubt that there was much of the lust of land 



List of the Club Members Present and Their Guests. 



[The members are named first, followed by names ol guests " indented."] 



George A. Alden 

 H. H. Wadleigh 

 Hon. J. J. Myers, 



ex-Speiker Massachusetts 

 legislature 



E. I. Aldrich 

 Will L. Stewart 



F. H. Appleton 



F. H. Appleton, Jr. 



Lewis D. Apsley 



Hon. J. B. Holden 



Hon. J. J. McCarthy, 



collector Port of Boston 



Gen.W.H.Brigham, 



of Governor Bates's staff 

 A. D. Gleason 

 Thomas F. Taft 

 Rev. John Baltzly 

 Charles H. Crump 

 Joseph S. Bradley 

 Milton T. Bailey 

 Charles F. Hamilton 

 George A. Reardon 

 Col. E. H. Woods, 



Boston Herald 

 D. J. Lord 

 Henry Tower 

 R. S. Osterhout 

 R. C. Hall 



C. C. Lockwood 

 C. H. Arnold 

 C. J. Bailey 

 Robert B. Baird 

 W. T. Baird 

 W. E. Barker 



A. L. Robinson 

 Charles W. Barnes 



0. A. Barnard 

 Charles H. Sawyer 

 Lawrence T. Sawyer 

 F. C. Johnson 



A. W. Pope 

 A. F. Bartholomew 

 A. O. Bourn 



H. H. Beddell 

 S. W. Bourn 



1. F. Buruham 

 Frand T. Carlton 

 R. L. Chipman 

 A. W. Clapp 



E. H. Clapp 

 W. C. Coleman 

 A. L. Comstock 



F. K. Guth 

 C. C. Converse 



I. W. Chick 

 Newton Crane 



E. H. Cutler 

 Isaac Crocker 

 Joseph Davol 

 Eben F". Dewing 

 R. L. Dorr 



J. Frank Dunbar 

 Alexander S. Brown 



C. F. Edgarton 



F. C. Hatch 

 George P. Eustis 



William R. Dupee 

 R. D. Evans 

 W. M. Farwell 



F. H. Albee 

 George II. Forsyth 

 Thomas Forsyth 



John II. Forsyth 

 John H. Flint 



John N. Cole 

 W. H. Gleason 



D. N. Graves 

 Horace Albers 

 William N. Homer 



N. Lincoln Greene 

 G. Edward Habrick 



J. E. Martin 

 J. H. Hebard 



E. A. Hebard 



L. H. Bartlett 



E. D. Hewins 

 Charles Kellogg 



F. C. Hood 



Dr. Carl O. Weber 



Arthur Little 

 George H. Hood 

 John Hopewell 

 H. Stuart Hotchkiss 

 O. R. Howe 

 Ernest Jacoby 

 Frederick H. Jones 



Arthur G. Walton 



Charles J. Rich 

 William Keyes 



P. D. Langley 

 William B. Laighton 



J. Henry Bean 

 Frank L. Locke 

 R. A. Loewenthal 

 H. C. Mason 

 George II. Mayo 

 W. H. Mayo 

 C. H. McDermott 

 John J. McGill 

 Otto Meyer 

 Charles A. Motse, Jr 

 Fred L. Moses 



John E. Page 



John Abbott 

 R. E. Paine 

 William H. Palmer 



W. H. Johnson 

 John S. Patterson 



Eli Bliss 



Dr. F. A. Davis 



W. J. Kent 



D. L. McGibbon 

 George Bartet 

 John Haseltine 



A. M. Paul 



E. E. Fay 

 R. J. Owens 

 M. S. Morley 



E. B. Pearson 

 W. L. Pitcher 



Jos. W. Green, Jr. 

 W. B. Powell 

 Edward R. Rice 

 J. M. Rice 

 Thomas G. Richards 

 P. L. Rider 



Captain F. L. Allen 

 T. J. Skinner 



Ellsworth H. Hicks 

 J. H. D. Smith 



A. P. Spear 



H. B. Sprague 

 George H. Burgess 



A. W. Stedman 



G. Herbert Windeler 

 Hon. L. A. Froth- 



inghara 

 Speaker Massachusetts 



legislature 

 John W. Wylde 



J. H. Stedman 



Walter I. Swasey 

 Leland T, Powers 

 Dr. Edward Rofle 

 Dr. G. W. Whiting 

 Ellis Hollingsworth 



Benjamin Taft 



J. Jackson Todd 



F. W. Veazie 

 Daniel Clifford 

 Frank Thayer 



E. E. Wadbrook 



H. F. Wanning 



John F. Wheeler 



Frank N. White 



Howard B. White 



George P. Whitmore 



E. S. Williams 



