The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-23
POOR SEIZURE!
His Ridiculous and Fortunately Rejected
Views on Army and Navy.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: Reading
the editorial article THE Presidents War" In
Wednesdays Sun was reminded OF a speech
delivered by Carl Schurz at the Conference on
International Arbitration held I'm this oIty in
lnriI 1901 ,ror, ,vhi,h 7 ya,tura m nuota on a
rtvo s,troots ehoviry tho yalue NJ his iudo-
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which h. npnroacbes tbe con siderntion Of pub.
lie oues,ions
On that occnsion Mr. sclurz ,rhiis advocating
the Arbitration treaty negotiated with Eng
land no Tho ,,IavaIa,d administration and sub-
seopen,lv rsi.o,ad NV tbe Sonata exnres.ed
htn,saif unon tho .ubiaot NJ Increasing our
navy in tho fo,,ov,ng words.
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alton, N. hohosnr - ,sh,ch in ,c,n,i co,aict ,ny
Admiral q, tho ,vor,d ,.r s.,e,y Snrst.u moder,
yarsbin 1. so comnllca,ed niece of machinery that
the bursting Of pipe inside Of II will disable it for
action The practical experience with our great bat
teshp 50 far has been that when two Of these ships
belonging to the same Government touch, one tho
other goes down. The great naval powers OF tho
world are now engaged in one OF the most gigantic
experiments OF all the ages That's to say. by tho
expenditure OF untoid m>iiiohs OF money ana oSth"
eie,.,on vi ''h'eAsuaoie Worship power. 'hey ",'
o'liuinS up h'acuno'F 'on'ern'hR "h''n hoo"us
80, W.. W. "''''' u ""' 'e'' ''''' :"
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W. 500 VIA, III. sxnorimont ~ char. cor.s IN,
whit not he wise 70 withhold our lions upon mil
lions until we know that the sbip, built will bs
good for something our experience so far goes TO
show that when baleship has lived Ave years Is
dscredited az an obsolete hulk.
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nj tho rise couns,,s n, Mr. sobn,z IN xb.t
condition would tho s,on;sb ,-,r have found
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'"o ooko" '''o n.ooA .'' anu ''''
io"a war III eoutse vi e".'s' rue'ion OF ",na-
inen'' we shouiu nave stoppeu the Work on
them ana wlthheiu our mllhons' ana When
Cerreras Meet arrived at santiago. those
vessels Instead OF being availablefo Sampson 8
eo' "ou'u ',"'. Dee' ins "''i'e'' a'iu "ai VI
oee a. w. uo,A' "'u' od nen' "ta,'' ,ne We"
~, n'i,%, "a 80, CO.. co. VI. oo'un' VI"
Gnu t"e ,"''sEn III ~ ,,'a'. 'neas
80 y, ~ ~ :. ',,o,,., .o" N, 80
"tu,' an We ~" e' ,u'e" 10 o'aoo'o
"un1' " iue' ~ wi u,N 90
na'"' eNpe''' ~" ie' us see now ITO
loonls up as "a mii'tary expert IL VIII DO re-
ae'u eieu ''at at .''e .'iiie Vi 'n's coh'ere"ce
.ne 9uoler. Oh coast uelehces was oe'hg urged
u ,,' .he government Dy our engineer oncers.
my WI ''e eNpohu''''oe VI ihiu'""se SUM
OF money TOT 'nis purpose. congress hes'taten
o"' M ochurH was elual 10 inc OCCASION ana
Nv a9'on's"eu anu e"En'eo MS 'oi'eaRues Vi
.'o conference Wy o'ier'ne as suost'.u'e 'or
NV eN' ia'akan' Pans VI '''e arm, o''cers .
sy9'e''i VI cn'eap a"u e,ise,Ne eoaS. ue'enosS o'
''is own '"'eh''oh' "h'c" ITO 'h''S ueScripeu
We hear much OF the necessity OF an elsbo ate
system OF coast to protect our 'eaports
lFo" assault. no" iar such system may be ne'ir.
Nole WI no' mere dasousS hnl am conndtnt
o ,s.is''' ino,' 'no'' tiue.~or'ny
st,, - ro,t Ius,,n" w.. Cos, c.. III ~ so,t
p,snec, For, Coo, WI, and !, ,,..rn.t,o,., ais.r
.r,nce, really do arise Fort Arb;tr,tion LOT M
on. sccu,. mo OF re,ortipp to IN. eap.trap Of Tn.
stump speech in discussing this grave subject T
mean exactly what I say and am soIemnly in
earnest.