Arizona republican., 1904-12-07

against which we are entitled to pro test to refuse him his passport 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 are sometimes treated than from the indig- nation inevitably excited in seeing such feaI ful misrule as has been witnessed both in Armenia and Macedonia.
 THE NAVY.
 The strong arm of the government in enforcing respect for it's just rights in international matters is the navy of the United tates. I most earnestly recommend that there se no halt in the work of upbuilding the American navy. There is no more patriotic duty before us as a people than to keep the navy adequate to the e'needs of this country's position. We have undertaken to build the Isthmian Canal. We have under taken to secure for ourselves our just share in the trade of the orient. W nave undertaken to protect our citizens from improper treatment in foreign lands. We continue steadily to insist on the application of the Monroe Doc urine tc the western hemisphere. Unless our attitude in these and all similar matters is a mere boastful sham we can rot afford to abandon our naval pTCgrG nme. Our voice is now potent for peace. and is so potent because we are not afraid of war. But our protes- tations on behalf of peace would nei- ther receive nor deserve the slightest attention if we were impotent to make them good.
 The war which now unfortunately rages in the far east has emphasized in striking fashion the new possibilities of naval warfare. The lessons taught are both strategic and tactical and are political as well as military. The ex- periences of the war have saown in conclusive fashion tha1 while sea going and sea-keping torpedo destroyers are indispensable, and fast lightly armed and armored cruisers very useful, yet the main reliance. the main standby, in any navy worthy the name must be the great batleships. heavily armored ar heavily gunned. Not a Russian or Japanese battleship has been sunk by a tofpedo boat, or by gunfre, while among the less protected ships, cruiser after cruiser has been destroyed when ever the hostile squadrons have gotten within range Of one another's weapons. There will be n large field of usefulness for cruisers, especially of the more for midable type. We need to increase the number of torpedo-bo destroyers, paying less heed to their having a knot or two extra speed than to their ca racity to keep the seas for weeks and. if necessary, for months at a time. T. is wise to build submarine torpedo boats, as under certain conditions they might be very useful. But most of all We need to continue building our fleet of battle ships, or ships so powerfully armed that they gan inflict the maxi mum of damage upon our opponents, and so well protected that they can suffer a sever hammering in return without fatal impairment of their abil- ity to fight and maneuver. Of course ample means must be provided for en- abling the personnel of the nevy to be brought to the highest point of effici- ency. Our great fighting ships and tor pedo boats must be ceaselessly trained and unanswered in squadrons. The officers and men can only learn their trade thoroughly by ceaseless practice on the high seas. In the event Of war it would be far better to have no ships at all than to have ships of poor and ineffective type ,or ships which, how ever good, Were yet manned by un- trained and unskillful crews The best officers and men in poor ship could