Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-01-03
Successfully Newport shpard Saturday 49,
cheering; Rear Admiral o'Neil, u. S.

gineering; Rear Admiral O'Neil, U. S.
~, chief of ordnance; Judge Advocate
Lemly, U. S. N; Lieut.. Gov. j. A. Lee,
of Missouri, acting for Gov. Dockery;
Gov. Tyler, of Virginia.; Corwin II.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition COM
pany; Congressman RiXey. represent
ing the house committee on naval af-
fairs; Senator Cockrell and number
of army and navy officers. Mrs. Roose
welt. wife of President Roosevelt, came
up from Old Point on the United States
dispatch boat Dolphin, with her guests,
steamers deck.
Crowd Cheers.
When the big ship had glided off the
ways into the water, the crowd on the
guests platform gave three cheers for
Miss Cockre.l, three for the army and
the navy, three for Secretary Long,
then three for the shipyard.
After inspecting the various depart
ments of the plant, the guests re-
paired to the shipyard, where they
boarded the steamer Washington, 60
ing to Old Point. AT the Chamberlin
hotel Saturday afternoon the custom
airy post launching banquet was given,
the guests mentioned above being on
the programme as the principal speak
erS.
Secretary Longs Address.
Secretary Long. of the navy depart
ment, delivered the speech of the oc-
casion and spoke in part as follows:
1T have been interested in the circular
signed by many eminent citizens, my be-
loved friend E. E. Hale at the head. in
which they regret the estimate of 500, O00,-
600 for the increase of the navy. The size
of the navy, If there Is to be navy at all,
Is question like the tarff-of adjustment
rather than of principle. OF course, 1t Is
rather taking thing to say as a matter
of theory, as this circular says. that $780,
600, 900 for the navy means tax Of six dol
lars on every family in the United States.
And yet. on the other hand. as a matter
of practical fact If that sum is spent there
is probably not family in the United
States whose future income could be shown
to be six dollars less, and there are good
many families whose income would be
six dollars more and still more families
whose income would be many times six
dollars less If 1t were not spent 1t is
also rather a taking thing to say that $780,
900, 900 could be better spent for education
or charity. And yet, on the other hand,
500 900. 600 spent in the employment of labor
is the very best use to which it can be put.
"It is not true as suggested in the cir
cular that great navy necessarily in
flames the fighting spirit and leads to war.
II my recollection serves me right while
Great Britain has had troubles In Egypt
and Africa. elsewhere she has had no con-
nIct on sea for many years, and yet her
navy has been twice as large as that Of
any other power The recent increase In
our navy did not induce the war with
Spain, which, as things were, seems to
have been inevitable. On the other hand,
| 1t is more than likely that if in the begin
ming of 1898 we had even as large navy
| as we have now, certainly as large one as
now proposed, there would have been no
war with Spain, and that country would
| have come TO terms, as she was very near
coming, without battle AT that time, how.
ever, It was the general impression among
| foreign powers and probably in Spain, that
her navy would blow US out of the water.
Our world relations have expanded vast
l ly In the last three years in territorial ex-
| tent, and vastly more in International ex-
tent. 1t has not been an extension upon
the continent. but upon the ocean itself