The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-03
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luctant to disavow our government.
We have an Illustration Of this in the
history OF the Panama canal, il being
very doubtful whether congress. even
- the Republican part of it. would have
approved the policy pursued by the adj
lrinistratioh. While the accomplished
TACT easily commanded the acceptance
OF the majority This power of the
executive is evidently a very dangerous
one-dangerous to the peace Of the
counery as Well as to the integrity of
our instftutiOns-lnless the president
cnerlshes a conscientious respect for
the constitutional limitations of his
power and an overruling desire relig-
lousiy to observe the spirit and intent
az well as the letter of the cOnstitu-
ton, as well as an innate love of peace
and fair dealing You may judge for
yourselves now dangerous is such a
power under the influence of the impe-
rialistic tendency with the lust of con-
quest and dominion, its love of adven-
ture and military achievement and its
progress TO impulsive action and dra-
matte display.
Military Spirit Rampant.
The imperialistic tendency. armed with
thst power. will be ali tie more danger
olis when II is at the same time armed
WIN an ample supply Of fighting material
ready Tor action. Until very recent
period we enjoyed the priceless blessing
or living IN perfect peace and security
without bearing the burden of a large
army and navy costing untold millions a
year-a unique privilege of which other
nations. grooming under heavy. military
ana naval expenditures, enVied US most
heartily. Our imperialists now tell us that
ms must cease to be so. According TO
them. we must have much larger army
IN proportion than before and our sec
rotary OF the navy assures US that We
must have the biggest navy in the world,
whatever the cost.
Have you ever seen anybody able to
give YOU an intelligent and satisfactory
reason why we must have those things?
some say we must have them TO protect
our commerce 1 ask. then, has there
ever been a single moment since the year
1910 when our commerce seuffered in the
least from the want of a bic navy to
protect it? Others say we must have it
70 enforce the Monroe doctrine. Was
there ever. before or since our Civil war
a single occasion when the Monroe doc
trlne was, so to speak, to enforce itself
without big army or navy?
Answer to Taft
"Our worthy secretary Of war in a re-
cent speech before the Union League club
Observation-Disclosures thinking Of it-how
unnecessary a big army and navy are 10
us for any of these purposes. He said;
70 Under the second Cleveland admins
tration we were, by President CIeveland's
message on the Venezuelan boundary
with Great Britain Now, how many
guns do YOU think there were on the
coast? There was just one modern gun
mounted
After the laughter called forth bv that
remark had subsidized, Secretary Taft con-
/" That taught the Republicans a les
Now. what was that lesson? That
more guns, should be mounted? But did il
not occur to the secretary that the real
and far more important lesson was very
dltterent one? Only recall the circum-
stances under which the incident took
place. Great Britain. engaged in boun-
Diary dispute with Venezuela urged her
contention with characteristic positive
ness. The president of the United States
stepped In and substantially said TO Great
Britain: Stop. You will not be permit
ted TO impose your will upon the little
American republic by main strength
without a word from this republic This
matter will have TO be arbitrated.'
Not Through Fear.
Great Britain. the mistress OF the
seas. by far the greatest naval power of
the world, proud and touchy, with a tory
government supposed TO be the special
champion OF that pride. was certainly not
used TO that sort of treatment She prob
ably knew, too, that we had only one gun
mounted on a coast several thousand
miles long. No wonder that a good many
people expected the British lion TO break
Out in a WarlilSe roar. But what did
Great Britain do The tory government
took President Cleveland's remonstrance
into respectful consideration and with
graceful Kindness assented to the arbi-
tration asked for.
Now what is the lesson Of this? Not
that we need biz armies and naVies for
the defense of our rights and the enforce
ment Of our Just demands. but that.
whether we are armed or unarmed. every
European power. even the greatest and
pToudest viii go TO the very extreme Of
possible concession 10 avoid a serious
sibe man knows that there is not one of
those powers which entertainS the slight
est idea OF attacking US that they will
readily comply with whatever we can de-
Gently ask for and that il we are TO have
any conflict with any one Of them we
shall have to bring it on ourselves by
uncomfortable orovoeation The simple
reason is that aside from what moral
love of peace they may cherish. they can
hardly afford 10 have a serious struggle
with so reSOurceful and DertinaciOuS an
antagonist as this republic. IN view of the
possibility OF dangerous complications at
home
Big Army Not Necessary.
"Our absolute safety from foreign az
gression, as every reasonable person VIII
admit, being thus assured may ask my
SGber-minded cOuntrymen for what pur-
pose large armies and big naNieS-the
characteristic tool and faVOrite Orua ment
OF empires-may be wanted by us. Being
entirely unnecessary Of defense, is the
greatest navy in the world, or any big
navy. the cost of construction and main
tcnance of which will run into the hum
dreds of millions needed or intended for
any other purpose? If not. then the
building and maintenance thereof Is
Wanton waste of the peoples money.
wicked and objectionable. But If il is
designed for any other purpose. what is
that purDose2 The worlds abroad win
but too plainly see in it a design of ag-
gressive movements on our part
'HThis would have q most unfOrtunate