The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-08
COST OF A NAVY.

Mr.. GOschen's statement on Monday was
| Of a kind 10 show how very elaborate an
! instrument a large navy is, and how many
preparations we must make in a consid-
cradle number of different directions be-
fore we can satisfy ourselves that a great
commerce distributed widely over the
whole globe can be satisfactorily protect
ed. First, we must have a great supply
Of well-disciplined and well-taught men
and boys, and that is no small matter
for it implies early training, naval classes
at the great schools, colleges on shore,
and training ships at sea--a considerable
fund for paying the service, even when 1t
is not a work; also similar arrangements
for the engineers, without whom now the
ships cannot be managed; similar arrange
ments, too, even for the stOkers, who are
absolutely essential for providing our
ships with motive power, and who are
class Of skilled, not of unskilled worl1men>
Then, again, a large navy means provi-
sions all over the world or docking and
repairing our ships. The new iron ship,
says Mr.. Goschen, requires a good deal
more docking than the old wooden ships.
Hence We are not only making extensive
and very expensive arrangements at Do
yer and Gibraltar or the docking of ships
but We are proposing to make them in the
Cape and in the Mauritius, though all
such arrangements involve a large amount
of capital as well as a great expenditure
in annual income. Then, again, II the new
ships are 10 be of any use, there must be
a new expenditure on storehouses as well
as stores. We do not have useful ships
without guns, nor useful guns without
large reserves OF shot and cartridges, and
plenty of safe receptacles for them. Then,
again, the great ships need great cOalinS
stations. and great coahng stations wide
" distributed, for even the first-ciass bat
tleships cannot come back 20 England
whenever their coal is exhausted without
wasting half their power.
In one word, a great navy such as
England has now, means most elaborate
provision, in a vast number OF different
and widely scattered places. FOR supply
ing. restoring, and defending most delicate
and elaborate machines Of very different
kinds. not only mechanical but electric,
not only electro but chemical II you
begin 20 spend extra on ships. you have
10 spend in proportion on schools and
training, as Wen as On pensions and p1o-
visions for hospitals. And u 5 no use
spending on ships without spending IN the
same proportion on guns. a new =
inch wlre-g7In,' said Mr. Goshen IN
c.lentaIly. contains 10S miles OF wire"
and that is the kind Of elaborate machine
which must be provided with a certain
munihceZce II the ships are 20 be effective.
No one can read Mr.. GosEheu's speech
without feeling quite a new sense Of the
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