Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-09-16
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In our national policy found Its origin
in a speech made by. President Roose-
welt in Chicago April >. 1850. At this
time the president felt it necessary to
explain to people why vast sums
were expended annually III the building
up ui II naval force which surpassed
the navies OF foreign countries in time
Of war, He said:
There is a homely old adage which
runs, Speak softly md carry II BIG
STICK; you will go far"
This statement taken in conjunction
with the fact that American warships
were rushed all over the world soon
caused European nations to regard the
great republic us I'm overIrown bully.
Later President Roosevelt at lI%averhill,
Mass. said: The good work " build.
ing up the navy must go on withou.
ceasing. Tho modern war5hIp cannot
with advantage be allowed tn rust III
disuse. 1t must be used up III active
service, ever III time OF peace"
Thinking men do not relish the idea
OF warships being sent ON missions that
might result i'll their no. rns::ng liz
disuse. Among them Is Joseph pulitzer,
vino says To President Roosevelt: -Wrs
preserve them from rustinr that you
kept the Muchias, the Iowa, the Con
ord and the Philadelphia busy at
Panama and Colon for the first six
months ~ your term, and tina you bad
the Iowa. marines at Panama two
months after you took Office? Was 1t
for the same purpose that you sent the
Philadelphia to Gu%ayaquil, Ecuador,
in March, 1902, when your keen scent
detected ii threatened revolution. and
that soon afterward you dispatched the
battIeship Wisconsin and the gunboat
Ranger to Panama and the cruiser CIn-
cinnati to the lsthmus with Il battalion
OF manues, landed 1900 men and took
fusmg 20 allow the Colombian troops to
ride without giving up their arms?
WAS it to keep the navy from rust
ing that You ordered the MachIas and
Cincinnati to land marines i'll Hayti in
1902, that you sent the Marietta to over
w Venezuela about the same time,
that yun despatched the Boston, FOL.
lowed by the entire Pacific squadron to
the Enst Coast on the outbreak @; the
regular spring revolution ;he ext year;
that you had the Atlanta, tho San Fran.
cisco and the Detroit take turns in
worrying the Dominicans i'll the same
season; that You simultaneously directed
the gunhout Callao to patrol a Chinese
river, and that !ou sen the Helena to
stir up the Russians at Newchwang and
the N~IckGburg at ChemulpO?
"Was it t" use the ships up in time
Of peace and incidentally MAKE more
rushed a squadron to Beirut when yas
heard that the American consul had
becn killed, and did not recall orders
when you learned the next day that
the story WIS false; that You sent
the Baltimore and Newport to SantO
Domingo in the fall when the country
~ i'll the enjoy meut Of its normal
state Of revolution; that you started Il
whole fleet toward Panama on Il teie-
pathic impression that the lsthmus
might secede from C%olnmbia; that you
sent Admiral Wise to Snnto Domingo
last February to over zee another rev
o%lution. despatched II lice: to TangicI
to get Pcrdicnris alive or Raisuli dead
ordered the European squadron Ia
Smyrna to secure school privileges for
American missionaries, sent the Detroit
back to Santo Domingo last May, and
nave just hurried the Denver and Ban
croft tO the scene Of the latest revolution
AIRY eruption in lIdytI. aud why you
have at this moment eight warships al
Shanghai against seven from all Other
nations cUmhincd?"