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that in battle the only shots that count are the shots 

 that hit, and that normally the victory will lie with 

 the side whose shots hit oftenest. Of course you 

 must have the ability to stand up to the hammering ; 

 the courage, the daring, the resolution to endure; 

 but I take it for granted you will have those quali 

 ties. It is less to be thought to your credit to have 

 them than it would be eternally to your discredit to 

 lack them. I take it for granted you will have the 

 courage we have a right to expect to go with 

 American seamanship; that you will have the daring 

 and the resolution. And I ask that you make it from 

 now on your object to see that if ever the day should 

 arise, your courage, your readiness, your eager de 

 sire to win fresh renown for the flag be made good 

 by the training you have given yourselves and those 

 under you in the practical work of your profession 

 in seamanship and gunnery. 



AT THE BANQUET OF THE SOCIETY OF THE 

 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 

 WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 2, 1902 



Mr. Toastmaster; Mr. President; Compatriots; and 



fellow- A mer leans : 



It is a pleasure to take part in greeting you this 

 evening. Societies that cultivate patriotism in the 

 present by keeping alive the memory of what we owe 

 to the patriotism of the past, fill an indispensable 

 function in this Republic. You come here to-night 

 from every quarter from every State of the Repub- 



