The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-05
DANGER OF A NAVY
INGALLS, on the Baltimore Incl
dent.
Inc suppositiOus Trouble With Chill Mann.
laetured by People Who Have Direct In.
tereSt In Securing Big Appropriation.

especial to The HERALD-Examiner Dispatcb
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-"The Gillian i'm
oroglio is an illustration on the danger NJ
our having navy', said ex-senator John
j. ingalls, at the Grand Pacific TO-DAY.
The Baltimore was in the harbor of Vol
paralso, where she had no business To ba
She had right to be there to be sure and
being there our flag and uniform ware
enutled 10 respect, but she had no busi-
ness there. Her sailors went on shore
and got into an alteration. The CbiIians
tell different story as to the row brt
some OF our men were hurt. Had thew
ana their ship been where they ought to
nave been, In the harbor of San Francisco.
New York, Boston or some other Ameri-
can seaport, they would not have besn
hurt. The Baltimore and all other war
ships OF our navy were built for the al
legged purpose of protecting our maritime
cities from assault by other powers. She
Couldn't do that lying in the harbor of
Valparaiso, but the officials wanted 70
make show of action and thew sent the
Baltimore to Valparaiso where she rad No
business as they sent the rest of the fleet
TO other places where they have no bBsi-
ness.
1.-The suppositious trouble with Chill,
was manufactured by people who have q
direct interest IN securing a big appropria-
tlon from Congress to build an expensive.
useless, unnecessary navy 1t was the an,
nuaI war scare which is gotten up by thess
same people just about the beginning Of
every Congress -
'Do we not need a navy2D
mo, sir. A navy will only get Us into
trouble, just as the Baltimore did. There
is no necessity for this country sending a
lot OF Warshlps staggering around the
earth, saying: The United States mnst
De respected D IL, the United States
are respected without any bullying of that
sort. The United States do not need 10
play the role of a bad man. We no more
need big navy than we need a big armvn
WlLhout navy what could be done in
case of TROUBLED"
in sixty or ninety days we would i'm
proYise navy that would sstouish the
world and defeat anything that could he
sent against US. We did in 1861 before the
civil war began. The rebels dispersed the
navy to the four quarters of the globe. We
had not ship worth damning Yet we
blockaded 1000 miles of sea coast. closed
the Mississippi to incursion and opened il
to commerce and created navy surpass-
Ing anything in the world We can do II
again. We can buy the navy of any conn.
try in the World-Great Britain. Ger
many, France, Italy-at so cents ON the
dollar. We should protect our own coun-
try, there should be great guns on every
head and the torpedo-boat system should
be extended and improved. Turn Edison
loose on that idea for month, and see if
he doesn't invent balloon whence dvns-
mite could be dropped on the decks of hos
tile vessels. Powerful coast defenses, good
torpeeo boats, practicable war balloons and
minding our own business, and cease from
a policy what excels in building nayies
where the impenetrable armor of to-day
is met with the irresistible projectile Of TO-