The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-14

lin the system of promotions in the navy.
We want also to have created a Boarq OF
Naval and Military Defence. composed OF
the flower of our Army and Navy, so
tina we win have some system and there
will not be two calibre of rifles, one in
the Army and one in the Navy"
Mr.. McAdoo showed how under Chand-'
Ter, Whitney and Tracy the navy I'M
proved and how the United States learned
the art of building war ships. manufae-
turing arnor plates, which are unsur-
passed by any nation, and making modern
guns. He showed what has been accom-
plished and pointed out what more should
lave been accomplished. Continuing, he
said
IF we a started ten or fifteen years
ago in an orderly manner, to build for
ourselves a navy, expending S4,Uog,o Vo or
5000, 600 a year, we would now pc IN q
condition of perfect security. We would
be prepared. A programme was laid out
for the building of a navy and 1t ought
to have been carried out in a reasonable
While we could n~ot~earry it out because
of opposition, we got a good deal out Oh
it. We got so much that we ought 10
get down Oh our knees and thank GOD
that we got as much as we did England,
with the finest navy in the world, is
spending millions to improve her navy,
and France, with a thousand burdens, is
spending 5000, COO for a similar purpose:
q hope that out of this trouble,
whether it is for peace or war-and peace
I hope for-that we will get the people to
consider this matter as they consider the
currency or any other important TOPIC.
We want a better public policy. We want
tho people to know that a strong navy
on the sea is for peace. not for war. We
want them to realize that We as a ma
ton. are out of SWaddling clothes n
have obligations to other nations to pay
and rights to enforce and moral response
bilities to assume. We cannot maintain
our power on the Western hemisphere
unless we pay our obligations to other
r1tiNpS and we cannot Keen our DOWer
unless we have a sufficient navy to en-
force our demands. We want a thoroughly
American policy. We wouldn't take
Canada from Great Britain by force; we
will take her when she wants to come in.
We are powerful tonight. Our friendship
is coveted, cur enmity is feared. There
is not q nation but would be glad If we
would descend from our traditional policy
and form an alliance with them"
The Rev. w. S. Grove was the next
speaker. He said that his conversion to
the necessity of building a navy had been
very slow, indeed, as he was essentially
a man of peace. ssThe protection of our
commerce. he said, requires that this
nation should be represented throughout
the world. No money expended Tor an Ell
fective navy can be wasted. Nothing has
ever happened to give me such confidence
in the American people as the silent vote
in the United States Senate which gave
$40, 900. 600 to the President to expend for
the defence of our country"
Major Pangborn said a few words along
the same line. and then introduced Su-
preme Court Justice Jonathan Dixon, who
introduced his brief remarks with the
Statement that the only ships he knew
anything about were courtship and the
yacht in which he cruises about Barnegat
Bay. He said
..Whatever we need in the future for
national defense lies in the depart
ment with which Mr.. McAdoo has been
connected. Our borders are not subject
to attack, but we have several thousand
miles of coast line where there are thou
sands of citizens and millions of property
exposed to attack. Our land forces are
will not do to trust to the spontaneous
patriotism of the American people. We
cannot build fighting ships in a day and
scientific education is required to manage
our great guns. Let us be prepared to
practice war in order that we may bet
ter practice the arts of peace"