The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-07
TX SENATOR INGALLS,
Letter Which Has Caused Much
Comment in Washington.
OUR DEFtNSELESS COASTS
The Subject Treated in a Character.
Istic Manner by the Brilliant Kan
san...The gcrInE Sea DiGl.
Guilty Discussed.


WASHINGTON, D. O., March 6.-The
article contributed to the New York
Truth by ex-senator Ingalls,, which has
created so much comment, is in sub.
stance as follows:
The annual ahriet about our defense
less coasts, and tho b6mhardment Of
Nav York, Philadelphia and Boston.
bss been emitted. Tho yearly pamphlet
describing the blood.curdling incidents
and the appalling consequences OF the
war with Chill and Spain In 1905 has
Sseu rent to each Senator and
Rpnresentstiye in Congress. The edi.
torial estimates in the Metropolitan
nyeps Of the amount OF property
Tithin reach OF an iron.clad In the
lower bay, and Of the ransom that could
he extorted from the merchants and
bankers have all been submitted and
arc filed away for use again in 1892.
Their purpose ia 10 reconcile the people
IN the passage OF the naval RppEopFia.
lion bill aud to the enormous and
nyoliVats expenditures in time OF peace
for ships, Qualifications and munitions OF
war, The capacity OF the United States
10 create d navy in an emergency was
demonstrated in the rebellion.
INVENTION TOO RAPID.
The duel between the Monitor and
ina MerimRc in Hampton Roads reyo.
lntiouizsd naval warfare and the prob
lam has since been TO construct armor
that no prcjsCtile could penetrate and
then TO invent projectiIes that no armor
could resist. EuropeOn nations have
been conducting these expensive exper-
Iments hitherto aud the ships OF 1880
are already obsolete and antiQuated for
attack or defense. Dynamite and other
explosives complicase the situation and
and the Navy that we arc nov bnilding
AT a coat Of $50, 600, 600 will be as worth.
lass in 1900 as Roman galleys. Eng.
land, France and Italy w0nldgladly sell
us their fleets ct so per cent Of their
cost, II we are to depend upon navy
for protection we must have ships
enough to assemble at every vulnerable
point, force gs large as conld be dis
patched against it. The millions we are
souandeiing on vessels that are sent on
idle errands in 'squadloIB Of evolution"
pa;nted pageants Of the deep, had better
be spent for earth-wolks and powerful
guns 10 command over roadstead, chan
mel and harbor from which q hostile
fleet could threaten or assail.
AT PEACE WITH TIE WORLD.
Ia thare any necessity for spending
millions every year for naval defense, or
any justification for the hysterical ap'
pesls to popular apprehension and
alarm? Our policy is pacific. We have
no colonies, nor dependencies, nor en-
tangling alliances. Wars break out un.
expeCtedly, it is true, sometimes, but
from what quarter can danger be
nationally anticipated? Our relations
with France arc those OF traditional
amity; with Germany, OF kinship and
Consanguinity; with Rugsia, OF frater.
nifty. The rest are trivial. Our only
enemy is England, and she is under
bond to keep the peace. No other
nation is so vulnerable, and none so
deferred. She has incurred the resent
ment OF the human race by centuries OF
injustice. :,
Colonel Mcclure, a noted Mississippi
dueiist, bad occasion to kick an unre-
sisting gentleman at a hotel in Natchez
Being not long after in Memphis, the
Colonel saw his victim subjeCting an
other to the same treatment. Being
somewhat curious and uncertain aa to
the identity OF the person he said: "Are
you not the fellow l kicked down stairs
in NAtchezT"
"Yes," he replied, "but, Colonel, you
and know who 10 kick"
TIE APPLICATION.
England kicked US when We were
helpless and feeble. She sacked and
burned a defenseless capitol. She has
kicked Ireland; she has kicked Egypt;
she has kicked the Hindoos, the Zulus,
the Beers, the Chinese, but che Is notin
the habit OF kicking her equals. Her
courage is prudent and calculating; she
was careful not to kick Napoleon till the
rest Of Europe joined her, and she en-;
duFed Russian aggression until she had
persuaded France to bear the brunt
Of the Crimean campaign. In
our civil war she did all she
could, short OF open hostility. to
destroy the Union, aud then apologizsdi
and paid damages. Lately We have bad
another contention about seal poachipg
and the Beriug Sea Oceans OF ink
have been Bhedin diplomatic correspon'
denCe between Lord Salisbury and Sec,
retary Blaine. Great Britain fortified
Vancouver, and sent ships Of war INTO
the disputed waters, walking around,
metaphorically speaking, begging us to
knock the chip from her shoulder or to
tread OIL the tails OF her coat. Legally,
she had an open clse, at leRat; In some
respects the best Of the argument.
ENoLANp's couP D'ETAT.