The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-12-10

UssfuIneas for cruisers, especially OF ths
more formidable type; we we H dsstroyera paw
ing less heed to their having a knot or two
extra speed than to their capacity 70 keep
months at a time. It is wise to build sub
marine torpedo-boats, as under certain CIT
cumstances they might be very nse5ni: 5u ,s
most of all we need to continue building our
fleet of battle ships or ships SO powerkutly
armed that they can inf1ict the maximum OF
damage upon our opponents am1 SO 49, VI
mering in return without fatal impairment
Of their ability to fight and maneuver.
OF course ample means must be PROVIDED
for enabling the personnel of the Navy to
be brought to the highest point OF emctency.
Our great fghting ships ana torpeuo,Doa1Ss
in sGuadrons. The officers and men can
only learn their trade thoroughly by cease
less practice on the high seas IN the h eSe mt
ships at all than to have ships OF poor
and ineffective type, or ships which, now
ana unskilled crews The best officers and
men in a poor ship could do nothing against
fairly good opponents; and on the other hand
a modern warship is useless unless the ON
GERS and men aboard her have become
adopts in their duties The understanding
in our Navy has improved In an extraor-
binary degree during the last three years,
and on the whole the types OK our pattIe-
ships are Improving: but much remains to
be done Sooner or later we snsli nave III, 20
be promotions for merit as well as for SEMI
GRITTY, or else retirement Of all those who
after certain age have not advanced be-
yond q certain grade; while no effort must
be spared to make the service attractive to
the enlisted men in order that they may
be kept as long as possible In II. Reservation
public schools should be provided wherever
there are navy-yards
Even where it Is not possible to secure in
other nations the observance OF the prin-
ciples which We accept as automatic, 1t Is
necessary for US firm
p,.St. ~ Ar,.-a..n ly to insist upon the
rights of our own clti-
Citizens Abroad gems without regard to
their creed race;
without regard to whether they were born
here or born abroad. 1t has proved very
dificult to secure from Russia the right for
our Jewish low-citizens to receive pass
ports and travel through Russian territory
Such conduct Is not only unjust and trrl-
tating toward us. but 1t is dihicult to see
its wisdom from Russia's standpoint. No
conceivable good Is accomplished by 1t. If
an American Jew an American Christian
misbehaves himself in Russia he can at
once be driven out; but the ordinary Ameri-
can Jew. like the ordinary American Chris
tian, would behave just about as he behaves
here, that Is. behave any good citizen
ought to behave; and where this is the
it Is wrong against which we are
entitled to protest to refuse him his pass
port without regard to his conduct and
character, merely on racial and religious
grounds. In Turkey our difficulties arise
less from the way in which our citizens
sometimes treated than from the indig-
nation inevitably excited in seeing such
fearful misrule has been witnessed both
in Armenia and Macedonia.
Within the last three years the United
States has set an example in disarmament
where disarmament was properly. By
law our Army Is fixed at a maximum Of
100, 900 and a mini
The Army. mum of 10000 men,
When there was in
surrecton in the Philippines we kept the
Army at the maximum. Peace came in the
irwin ND 100
reduced to the minimum at which it Is pos
sibe to keep 1t with due regard to Its eff
cheney. The guns now mounted require 2S,-
900 men, if the coast Qualifications are to be
adequately manned Relatively to the Ma
ton, 1t Is not now large the police
force of New York Chicago relatively to
the population of either city. We need more
officers; there not enough to peform
the regular Army work. 1t Is very important
that the officers Of the Army should be ac-
customed to handle their men in masses,
as 1t is also important that the National
Guard Of the several states should be ac-
customed to actual field maneuvering, es-
pecially in connection with the regulars. For
this reason we are to be congratulated upon
the success of the field maneuvers at Man
assas last Fall. maneuVers in which a larg-
er number of regulars and National Guard
took part than ever before assembled
together in time of peace. No other civil
lied Nation has, relatively to its populat ton,
such a diminutive Army ours: and while
the Army Is small we are not to be ex-
cused II we fail to keep 1t at a very high
grade Of proficiency. 1t must be necessarily
practiced; the standard for the enlisted men
should be kept very high. while at the same
time the service should be made as attrac-
tive as possible; and the standard for the
officers should be kept even hiEher-which
as regards the upper ranks, can best be done
by introducing some system OF selection and
rejection into the promotions. We should be
able. in the event OF some sudden emerg-
ency. to put into the field one first class
Army CORDS which should he uba
least the equal of any body OF troops OF like
number belonging to any other nation
Great progress has been made in protecting
our coasts BY adequate TortiHcations with
SUFFICIENT guns. We should, however pay
much more heed than at present to the de-
Velopment of an extensive system Of floating
harbors These mines have been proved to
be most formidable safeguard against hos
tile fleets.
l earnestly call the attention of the Con-
ing law relating to the award of Conpras-
sional medals of honor in the Navy SO az
to provide that they
Medals of Honor may be awarded to
IN The Mo- commissioned officers
and warrant officers
as well to enlisted
men. These justly priced medals are given
In the Army alike to the officers and the en-
hsted men. and 1t is most unjust that the
commissioned officers and warrant of1cers Of
the Navy should not in this respect have the
same rlghts as their brethren in the Army
and as the enlisted men of the Navy
In the Philippine Islands there has been
curing the past year continuation of the
steady progress which has obtained ever
since our troops definitely got the unner
MANU- oL the insurgents. The Philippine peo-
~ pie. or, to speak more
o AAAAPplnes. accurately, the many
tribes, and even races
sunoered from one another more OF less
Sharply, who go to make up the people of
lne Fhiiippine Islands. contain many ele-
menus OF good, and some elements which we
nave right to hope stand for proRress At
present they are utterly incapable of exist
ing IN Independence at all or of building
up civilization Of their own. / firmly be-
heVe that we can help them to rise higher
ana higher In the scale of civilization and Of
capaclty Tor self-government. and l most
earnestly hope that in the end they will hn
aOIe TO stand. II not entirely alone VET In
some such relation to the United States as
Suoa now stands. This end Is not vet in
sIsht' and 1t may be indefinitely postponed
II our people are foolish enough to turn tbs
attention OF the Filipinos away from the
PlopIems or achieving moral and material
PROSPERITY or working for stable. orderly
anu just government, and toward foolish ana
dangerous intrigues for comnlete md
Pendence for which they are as vet tntoI,
unfit. q" yet lotalIy
On the other hand our people rnust ,oo,,
9atay oelore their minds the fact that the
SuSa!Acattoh 1or our stay in the Philipnines
uSt ultimately rest chiefly upon the GOOD