The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

| iili at tue SldFt ol Tdllh diIu iilIt oi order or maneuvers, of station and re- serve: with him it was all action and eagerneSs to get to the front. The | American ships went at the spanish fleet like eager hounds let out ot the leash in pursuit of an escaping fox. Only when he sang out 'hard port, " and the Brooklyn made the famous loop, Schley for the moment must have recalled to himself the fact that hc was in command of the fleet and that ! the order of battle was depending upon hIm: but while the Brooklyn swung around in he short circle he must have cltarly perceived and fally conceived thae While the actual fight i, on. the l rOnfnander of d modern fleet or squad ron can solely light his own slip. The loop of the Brooklyn at Santiago wlll serve, peihapS, 10 illustrate better and more plainly than anything else that warfare on the sea today Las degeEer- ated again into old-tine savage rough and-tumble, mass against mass. without organizatio nor general>hip. CiyiAzu. tiOn has long %ln,e tabOUed such War fare anI Will sCOn end 1t now on the caS.
 According to Ia est news L. $. Con eress ha, under consideration ship subsidy bill. The measure may be good or bad but in many instances it has been argued and based on wrong premises. The rroiuseiy lalHebted falling away of the AmerIcau merchant marlne Was first and foremost caused by American capital finding better and more profitable investments m other undertakings he money that prior a,ter that tune went largely into lall- roads, into the developments of the west iud into tHe creat on and building npuf Aahy other great and renuner- atlve indus, rle5 in the United States. N ho wi.lTouUl that cur surplu, cap ital Wa, not better invested in this
  property which We have been always able to hite ch,allA? talrUads are better anu more advantage currlera than ehIps any day and copier greater benefits on the country. To the nation that fosters it's internal development and draws it's parts more closely to- gelher by the building of railroads be- longs tEe race durn. he , 2lh century. The day of colonai rXploitdtjun> hy Europe of the other continents is nearly passed. All of EngIand'o powerful fleet, would be unab 6 today to prevent any of il, many cClonie, to form free and independent federation # It were held t0gpliIer ,:u cll bosdS by a mesh work of raiIr, ads. Powerful Wnl be those natiUn, that hold large areas of the surface of the earth inclosed by our boundaries in one compact mass. The greatest object lesson of the i'm potency of sea power will be given in the near iuture Lere at Borlng straits. When railroad, shall have been been built to meet there, the two greatest and mOSt compact powers of the world, and hlough them ail the continent, uf the world. will he able to interchange their goods without the largest navy or combination of navies beIns abe to interfere.
 It is worth while to travel the length of the world to look upon the great scene where the ferry between two worlds will soon run now uninterrupt- edly winter and summer. The right of way across Boring straits Is abse lately controlled by tLe United States and Russia. Seven natural Gibraltars. hIgh and steep, hold undsputed sway an uudcr their protection the large erly boats can as, to and fro without need of fear of the largest sea power.
 While during the long winter months the Beriny sea south of st. Lawrence island i> heavily blocked with ice and nearly impenetrable to the mt st power iul Dt dt, uOItll ti LblS I~Iitu tiit StcIVN back and forward flow between the Boring sea and Arctic oceGG iS the cau. of more or less open water and in his north water Of Ber.ny sea d pow elful terry boat, especially if tilt on the lines of the ice. breakers the Rus ,lan govern Lent i' periplentlng with now, can be operated the year arounl. When the railroad to lhe Bering straits shall have been cen -tructed and the ferry be in steady op- eration the influence of sea power will pass away and gi eat new era will be- gin. The millions upon millions of dollars now every year sunk and sQuandered into the Iattn's play thlng-, the modern battleshipS, will find investment lu making the earth d grander an better ahiIng place for man to live and grow in.
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