Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-10-25
A now medical authority has arisen

A now medical authority has arisen
who declares there are no malaria hi
crobes in the blood, and that those " .ir
say there are merely mistake tho white
corpuscles Of the blood for bacteria.
Well, we do wish the doctors would
agree on something in tho mat ter OF
disease germs-something that, is final
and certain, that is We begin to sus.
pect they have got microbes Oh the brain,
and that the little 'beasties arc quito as
much subjective as objective :. y J.
Testimony in Rebuttal.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23.-At the
opening Of court the defense IN the trial
OF Theodore Durrant announced that it
had finished its case and the taking of
testimony in rebuttal was at once be.
gun by the prosecution. ..
So long as American citizens may
freely sell gunboats to Spain to whip
Cuba, the American government has lit.
tie to do to try to stop American citi-
zens from going over to try to help Cuba
whip Spain.
Do We Need Navy?
We certainly do, says Captain A. T.
Mahan in Harp,r's Magazine. he calls
attention to fact that all Americans
do not duly recognize today, and that is
the great changes, geographical and po-
litical, that have taken place in this ma
ton since the beginning Of the century
When Washington was president, the
strength of the republic lay largely in
its isolation from the rest of the world
1t was our wisest policy to stay at home
aud avoid disputes with other nations
Now all that has changed. Tho borders
Of the country have oStended from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and by the ces-
sion Of Louisiana and the acquisition Of
Texas have extended also around a large
portion Of tho gulf. This coast must be
protected.
At the beginning Of the century we
bad no foreign commerce to speak Of 1t
had not yet developed. Now much of
the living of our farmers and manufac-
turers comes from the export of their
products Even so years ago we shipped
TO foreign countries almost no meat,
breadstuffs or machinery, and no petro
leum, fruit or diary products at all. In
some dispute, which, it is to be hoped,
will
could be wiped off the earth in month
by nation with u powerful navy. AS
it is, even today, with so fine begin
ming of our new navy, England could
destroy it ali in short time.
To defend our fa1rcaching seaboard
and to protect our commerce, therefore,
Captain Mal1an argues that a thorough
ly equipped navy is a necessity But
there is something olse. The principle
Of tho Monroe doctrine is believed in by
every American as devoutly as no be-
lieves in the creed and confession of his
theology. All American would not be
IN American indeed who did not accept
that doctrine. 1t requires that we shall!
prevent any aggression by European
powers Oh any portion Of America, north
or south. 1t requires, for our own self
preservation. not as a matter of philan-
thropy, that WE shall protect the Central
and South American republics from Eu-
ropean powers in case Of difficulty. For
this navy is necessary, and good one
Every year our relations with the
lstA,Aus corntries and the islands Of the
Car lbbean sea become closer and more
involved our trade in that region be-.
Comes more important We must not
only have navy to defend our interests
there, but we must build that Mica
ragua canal and own and control it.
For this, too, we shall need navy, and
there is lot an American alive who
grudges the money to make and main
tain it.