St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-26


the inTolutions OF their navel
affairs (Great laughter.l Then Mr..
Evarts and others would not have
been SO concerned about the count Laugh
ter. This is the legend have instituted In
our committee room Of naval affsirs-viz.,
vaticination. [Laughterl It begets preset
enee. II was not altogether Hellenic fancy
when the Greeks fancied that Delphi was the
navel Of the earth. The oraeles were there.
Milton makes his sorcerer dwell in the navel
OF wood. he sat in the center and swept
the horizon. Laughter and eheers.l So
that, taking this meaning. and ] speak with
out deiicacy Laughter may not one Of
the naval com mittee predict the future of our
commerce an association with its guardian
of the seat What, then may be expected Of
vessels that can equal the Alaska or Oregon
iu speed-eighteen or nineteen kDotsl Iron
clads like the Ajax, Iufexible, Italia, and
Lepantoi or this / cannot say; but this
may say-that all will be useless so long as
the harbors OF our seaboard are left TO the
tender mercy af invading foes.
THE use Of a navy is not altogether for
eign or for the sea service. Our harbOr de-
lenses would be incomplete without a sys-
TEN which includes many parts Of naval arm
ament. The earthwork, the battery,
the parapet, the fertilization, the en-
plOyment OF great guns using weighty pro-
jectiOns, fired with great velocity and with
large charges and with the best explosives
the torpedoes, movable and stationary, aud
the floating battery; these are the armament
| Of shore aud barbor. This varied employ
ment is not altogether within the scope Of
navy; but it should he in alliance with that
military arm which is the defense OF our
seabOard and lis cities. Amy expenditure
made in this direction-and II is already
being tried-is policy Of insurance. Tin
sures the immense values which depend on
the guardianship Of force in the emergen-
cies Of foreign conflict ! need not repeat
here what urged upon congress on the 18th
I OF December, 1879 and also in the last SEES
sion, that we ought not 10 rely altogether on
/ chance, luck, stone torts, or divine provi-
cence for the protection OF this city. That
is very well 10 its way, but Whiteworth,
Whitehead, Krupp, Armstrong and Hotch-
kiss may not be without some laundering
adnonitions. Big guns there are that can
throw fourteen miles and more; machine
guns there are in which the hopper, reeeiv-
ing balls by the bushel, throws them with
immense velocity ana incalculable
dcstruction-forty discharges, or six
hundred balls minute-with a
| precision which no smoke obscures, for thu
!
| because infallible machinery does its perfect
work. So that If We would make the navy
| guardian OF the commerce OF the great
metropolitan entrepOt OF this hemisphere We
must study heedfuly the gunnery aud mari
| time problems OF our time, and legislate ac-
eordingly. [Cheers.l
! 1t Is now no longer the Essex against the
Alert, the Constitution against the Guerrero
and Java, the Wasp against the Frolic, the
! United States against the Macedonia. Then
our Porters. Hulls, Decaturs and Perrys
! made their ships, other things being equal,
the superiors OF the best of other nations.
The days Of Trafalgar aud Put-in-Bay are
| traditions.
THEY READ LIKE ANCIENT RoNAScEs.
The vessels that once bore our banners
are used to imprison hazing cadets, the
muzze leaders to fire salutes TO distin-
guished visitors, and the hulks as euriosties,
TO invite incredibly as 10 the prowess Of early
days, when the battleship was handled under
canvass with a magic that wrought victory in
spite of size and numbers. Now steam does
its work. The ram does its work.
The torpedo in and under water
and in air, does its terrible work.
Artillery, not statesmanship-the engineer,
not the sailOr-the breech, not the muZZle
loader-become the other guardians of com
merce. The swift cruiser aud the long
reaching or composite gun-the thick armor
and the gun of larger caliber coiled or hoped
with steel-how thick and fast come these
! inventions to destroy. Other nations are
! prohtiug by the advance Of our time. Russia
has 120 England 119 torpedo crafts for
coast defense. Europe has 315 armored
vessels. Already France, uniting with an
other power, can override England on the
sea; while as TO our navy, like the sailor in
Tom Hoods punning poem, we must go
down TO the water side 10 see il, out Of sight.
''How long can we afford 10 remain in this
helpless cOnditionl With our isthmus con-
necton IN our own and not in other hands,
aud our inland and outland trade assured,
our exchanges with the world mutual, there
is nothing to prevent New York having aud
being, in two senses, the cap
ital of the world. 1t is said
that Venice, being in As degrees
north latitude, midway between the poles
and the equator, Wanted herself. New York
has more precious ring wherewith TO wed
the nations in commerce than that with
which Venice was wont TO wed the Adriatic
Cheers. Emerson says be saw a chart
once, in which IL was shown that Philadel-
phia was in the same thermic belt as Athens,
! Rome and London. He said that IL pleased
the vanity of Chestnut street, but when car
ried TO Charleston, New Orleans aud Boston
II somewhat failed 10 convince the scholars.
Laughter. So lei Us, while not too con-
hdent, remember that, while Europe arms
continually, America has, in addition to the
genius OF her inventions, an OVERLOOKING
treasury, the attractive forces Of Immigration
infinite farming capacities, an intelligent
liberty, and an isolated and unaggressive
policy which arm her in self defense; and
whoever is thus armed is thrice armed and
lnvincible. Cheers.
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