Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 80

Who will say now? To-day that they is equipped by Scandinavians and officered,
in the principal, from the sailors of the foreign nations which flags that they is floating.
But the American is an adaptable type. He immediately frequents to the it changes
conditions and it conquers them. He turned him from the sea to the railroads when
that seemed to be the course of progress;  he can now reconsider his/her footsteps
what the pendulum seems to dangle the other way. And if he finds under the
new regime the less opportunity for the game topman, any opportunity for the aware one
dealer to one hundred harbors, the gates closed to the man of small capital,
still he is sure it will conquer the fate somehow. We have seen him to us in the armed one
branch of the profession of sea only among some months. When the fine
the old rubbings of navigation faded away from the seas, when her "Constitution" and
the "Hartford" it became obsolete as the caravels of Cristoforo Colombo, when a harbor soldier
officer found that electricity and vapor both more serious problems in his
calling that the sails and arming, and a bluejacket could be with the best in
its clock without never having learned to furl a reality, said then
each:  "The naval profession has gone to the dogs. Its novel has
party. Our ships should be equipped by our shops of boiler and officered
our give institutions of the technology. There won't be more Decaturs,
Somerses, Farraguts, Cushings." And then it came to the Spanish war and the
rush of the "Oregon" around Head Horn, the fresh push of the fleet of Dewey
in the closed waters of Bay of Manila, the brave struggle and death of Bagley
to Cardenas, the to face of died by Hobson to Santiago and the suit
the destruction of the fleet of Cervera of Schley showed how American you/they could fight
how good in steel ships as in one of wood. Neither we can doubt that the
history of next mean-century will show that the new order to the wish of sea
you cross an able new run of American sailors as of past to try
them masters of the depth.