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which Dewey entered Manila Bay included ships laid 

 down or launched under Secretaries Chandler, Whit 

 ney, Tracy, and Herbert ; and all four of these Secre 

 taries, their naval architects, the chiefs of bureaus, 

 the young engineers and constructors, the outside 

 contractors, the shipyard men like Roach, Cramp, 

 and Scott, and, finally and emphatically, the Con 

 gressmen who during these fifteen years voted the 

 supplies, are entitled to take a just pride in their 

 share of the glory of the achievement. Every man 

 in Congress whose vote made possible the building 

 of the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, or the 

 putting aboard them and their sister ships the mod 

 ern eight-inch or rapid-fire five-inch guns, or the 

 giving them tHe best engines and the means where 

 with to practice their crews at the targets every 

 such man has the right to tell his children that he 

 did his part in securing Dewey's victory, and that, 

 save for the action of him and his fellows, it could 

 not have been won. This is no less true of the man 

 who planned the ships and of the other men, whether 

 in the government service or in private employment, 

 who built them, from the head of the great business 

 concern which put up an armor-plate factory down 

 to the iron-worker who conscientiously and skil 

 fully did his part on gun-shield or gun. 



So much for the men who furnished the material 

 and the means for assembling and practicing the 



