Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-17
CANNON On NlnAR|SN
Speaker of the House Addresses
a Great Audience at Terre
Haute, Ind.
MILlTARlsM AS A BoGEY MAN
President He Declared Had Done
Nothing Worse in the Way of cae.
sar Than 10 Reduce the Army From
100000 to $4,000 - The Need of
Strong Navy.

Ieffe IiauCe, IND, zSoSpS. - 1''
so this president of outs IS
Caesar, dangerous man who vents 10
kill you both where YOU are and
where you amt" exclaimed Speahel
Cannon in his discussion here last
night. of the record of President Roose-
Welt. in connection with miltarsm, The
coast defenses and thu inc.ease OF The
navy The speaker arrived here at Z
O'clock in co,,tpluy with Congressman
uemenwsy. and last night adtir, $50 j
large and ate 1tive audience ut the
Coliseum.
Mlitarism he pronounced veritable
DOGGY man. The president lad, he de-
clared, done nothing worse in the way
of a Caesar than reduce the army FROM
100000 o $4,000 and III view OF the
fact that this nurlhcr g,9es only about
one soldier TO eac', i tao people IN the
country, he lid az ,ir- the out
lock dangerous III WAT direction. Re-
ferring to the coas. defenses he sad
that tie Spanish war hll demonstrat-
e4l ;heir necessity ana sn,kA II the fear
Boston might be attacked.
Boston, he said, and changing the
pronunciation, continued, great IS
Bostng, she is great on account OF
former generations and fairly yet. But
that is where the mugwumps live, you
know they were so afraid that poor old
Spain would send a warship into the
harbor and levy tribute on Boston that
the banks and the trrls companies ana
all the timid people of that good city
were in great distress. Well, Spain
could have done so if she had had one
good ship, so helpless was our north
east coast. In the face of this fact,
who can honestly denounce the policy
that would prepare our shores against
such danger in the future"
Makes instance of Japan.
In his consideration of the navy, the
speaker referred to the Russo-Japan>
csc war, saying that Japan is appar-
entity getting 1.-The best of it" on ac-
count of her navy, and because her
ships are manned by sailors who can
handle a gun. Japan's navy" he Went
on, sis very expensive, but it is an OBJ
iect lesson to the world" Concerns
ing the navy of the United States, he
recalled the fact that Terre Haute had
been the home of Secretary Thompson
and said: "They say, we are extrava-
CANT We We're spending between $780,
100000 and $40000,000 a year under
Cleveland, and he was supposed to be
economical. Our appropriations this
year for the navy are about $1O2,000,-
600. Do you know that a good navy
for the United States is the most &C.
onomical thing that we can have? IT
is equivalent to bond, because If we
have a navy that can protect the coast
line, it strengthens our diplomacy.
With the Philippines and with the
trouble in China-our navy was eff
cient in oriental waters as far as 1t
went But the United States has
grown to 100000 and has become tn.
strongest and greatest government on
earth Under the leadership of Theo~
dore Roosevelt and John Hay it is the
most potent power in the councils or
the governments of the civilized world,
and that China is not dismembered and
partitioned, and that she has the open
door, is due to the diplomacy of VIII
liam Mckinley, and Theodore Roose>
Welt, with the aid of John Hay. And
| the fact that we have S0,000,000 peo-
pie; the fact that we are the richest
country on earth; the fact that we
! make third of the products of the
earth; the fact that we have this navy
and that it is growing, strengthens our
diplomacy. would like Mr.. Parker
| to rise in his place and say whether, If
| he is president, he will favor policy
| that will dismantle the navy and dis
continue it's further construction. II
he does, the loyal and intelligent people
of our country will traup1e upon him.
If he does not mean to do that, what