Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-20

ident Roosevelt was to declare that he
very greatly resembled the emperor OF
Germany,
"If the prevailing belief is justified
and II the president is TO be given -four
years Of power In his own right now
that the great representative OF the
conservative force In the Republican
party, the late senator from Ohio (Mr
HANNAH, is gone to his reward, It may
be wise for us 10 Guido even Great
Britain in our naval program, Is II
the part of wisdom to encourage an un-
safe and impetuous and adverture-lov-
ing executive by loose talk and with
big appropriations should he not be
made TO feel that the sentiment Of this
country Is for peace, not strifGY II al
ways has been so and IL always should
be.
Since the Spanish American war II
Is true the people seem to have beer
carried away with the glamour of mil
itary achievements. So stupendou'
have the expenditures for the naval
and military become that important In
ternal improvements have been lndef'
initely deferred
Dewey that the sea force should con-
sist Of IS battleshps, Mr.. Fitzgerald
said that confirmed his assertion that
the naval program was based on the
theory that our navy should be larger
than that OF Germany. II was time tc
call a halt on much talk Of an innam-
matory character that was heard
throughout this land, declared Mr. Fitz'
gerald, adding.
public officers are the chief often
ders by loose, indefinite and bombastc
statements. The naval committee IN
its report Is not entirely free from the
disease
Referring to the speech by Secy
Moody and that of Mr.. Bede Of Min
neapolis, concerning the Monroe doc
trine, Mr.. Fitzgerald said President
Cleveland never would have issued his
universally praised Venezuelan mes
sage" Il he had stopped to measure
the relative strength OF the navies OF
the two countries, In conclusion, he
asked
"Are we to have a great navy merely
to furnish summer holidays that high
officers may play al warp
peal for the tobacco grower, contend
ing for the removal Of the tax imposed
on stemmed leaf tobacco when stem
med by the farmer Mr. Gaines said
the law evidently had been written by
some skillful lawyer for the trusts and
passed without Congress knowing what
1t was,
Mr.. Liverdash Of California asserted
that this country could not become d
great sea power unless the laws sur
rounding the toilers Of the sea were
changed. His great concern, he said
was for the men in the stokehole While
not opposed to an effective navy III
opposed a large standing army, which
no declared to be an effective menace
10 democracy. He said he did not be-
lIeve In looking to The Hague for adj
Indication Of differences, calling at.
tentlon to the war in the far east and
the cars relation to the international
peace conference
Speaking Of American seamen, he
complained OF the conditions surround
ing them and asserted that 10 per
cent of the sailors on American ships
were foreigners. He declared that the
administration was not proposing any
thing to restore the merchant marine
and to put American sailors back on tht
decks.
He complained Of the employment OF
Chinese on the Pacific He said when
the measure proposing the creation OF
a commission to investigate the mer-
chant marine came up for consldera-
ton he would insist that the inquiry
extend TO the condition Of the Ameri'
can seamen,