Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-06
BY TELEGRAPH.
IN PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR.
This is the Meaning Of the Activity il
Uncle SANS Navy Yards.

WAsnIssroy, Jan, There 10 the
highest authority FOR saying that the activity
in ravsl circls which hiss been Interpreted
ia .snsx i1E Al q7srters to mean certsia WAY
With Chill, vii BOT cease tysn II within the
next fes vesss Chill shsii cone forward
With the srnp'es, repxrs,ion TO- the ssssult
yron lha BAlgmere's nea at Valparaiso.
The Chi.isa imerosho hiss served - en- .
phssixs Iha innuortsrce of the stsps taken
nan,hs $50 to provide So sde qaste naval
eqsipnetr There will be M cessation OF
slIivity, therefore, nov that the oiigl al
programme - OF too.. hus regardless OF ali
Sbstsact issuss, The work cat out in iha 10
tefests Of faa general needs of the govern
msnt uc6es the new policy upon which II
i. entering will be rapidly and generously
puzzled 70 completion.
Is ore fes.Grs If the new Blaine pol
icy. TnsI poiicy sails for pesce. but az
the came time Il Gem 2rehends readiness FOR
war II moments notice Mr.. Blaine hiss
exercised 80 far restraining irflaence on
the President in the Cnil.An matter because
be real re-. that 81 iL-con sidered show OF
temper on the psr, of tni. government
would have bad effect sill over South
America. where bis reciprocity project il.
either under consideration or is just being
applied. AT the same time, however, he
has sympatbizsd full with the programme
for Increasing the strength of the navy and
developing sill Of the governments re-
sources by sea as early as possible
II WAS part of his own programme to
call tie attention of foreign powers TO the
great increase in the naval strength Of IA !
United States, sad this CIiiisn stir has
simply provi cd him with better cue OF
sctlon than he Otherwise would have had
Mr.. Blaine's idss is that powerful navJ
is recf ssary for the protection of the
American trsds he is now extending. He
would not solicit c5mmerce with big guns,
tut once il is secured il siil be all the more
easily retsine 70. being conducted unser
ample safeguards. MIR. Blaine believes
that in q few ears, if the proper guarantees
are given, the leading manufacturers and
merchants OF the United States will have
branch establishments in the cities
of Souh America and the West
ladies'. His calculation is that Cuba vi.l
shortly become 10 all inients and purposes
an American colony, its sugar plantations
all owned by America and its meIcnsr-
disc in the msin handled by Americans
He sees the American merchants 10 sill
of the Countries trading with the Unite
States reapirg the rewards of the increased
trsde and i,iunphiDg in thxt pursuit over
| their less capable and energetic rivals for
business. His purpose, therefore. is to
| spre sd abroad a wholesome respect for the
American name and power, so that American
push and capital may have the less diff ,ulty
IL making hegdwsy in the new enterprise
He fekrs, indes d. that unless that is done,
Ame rcsn capitalists, IS tempting as the
new felds are, cannot be induced to enter
upon their cultivation. But give those cap
italisss the assurance of prote elton by tn, ir
ONE government and Mr.. Bisiae believes
that they will Il ck TO the new firlds, 81 d
thst by hse industry and enterprise, the
extension of the sale Of American products
abroad will exceed the calculation of the
most sanRniDe his own calculation even.
Mr.. Blaine looks with confidence TO the
present Congress for liberal support FIR
the Navy. The Naval Committees Of
both houses are composed of men whose
vo,es for naval supplies in past Congresses
have showed that they sy m psshize with the
desire for complete armament
at sea Mr.. Cameron is still
chairman OF the Senate committee and Mr..
He bert. of Alsbsms, is sgsin at the head
of the II luse c. mmirtze. Both were instrn-
sntal in securing isrge sppr0 9ristions for
new ships from both the T rty-n nth ard
Fitch Cor gfss'c and, although in the
minority in the last II 3use, Mr.. Herbert
a1hered to 8 liberal policy towards the navy.
Thst he will labor IS chairman to bring in
a liberal bill ills yesr is not to be q1e.-
toned