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

Terre Haute, Ind, Sept. -. AIN
so this president of OUTS is
Caesar, a dangerous man who vents TO
where you amt exclaimed Speahei
Cannon in his discussion here last
night. of the record OF PresldeEr Roose-
Welt. in connection with miltarisn, the
coast defenses and thu inc.ease OF the
navy The speaker arrived here at I
o'clock. in cortplny with Congressman
Hemenwey, and last night addr' $50 a
a large and ate 1tlve audience ut the
Coliseum.
Militarism he pronounced a veritabe
DOGGY man. The president lad, he de-
clared, done nothing worse in the way
of a Caesar than reduce the army frofa
100, 900 10 $4,000, and ;n view of the
fact that this number sEes only about
one soldier 20 eac,, iao people IN the
country, he lid az i-r the out
lock dangerous III WAT direction. Re
ferring to the coas. iefenses, he sad
that tie Spanish war had demonstrate
el their necessity ana sp,x, # the fear
Boston might be attacked.
Boston" he said, and changing the
pronunciation, continued, great IS
Bosting, she is great on account or
former generations, and fairly yet. But
that is where the mugwumps live, you
know they were so afraid that poor old
Spain would send warship into the
harbor and levy tribute on Boston that
the banks and the trust companies and
all the timid people of that good city
were in great distress. Well, Spain
could have done so il 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 2
Makes Instance of Japan.
In his consideration of the navy, the
speaker referred to the RussoJapan>
csc war; saying that Japan is appar~
emily getting 1.-THE best of it" on ac-
count of her navy, and because her
ships are manned by sailors who CAN
handle gun. Japan's navy he Went
on, lis 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 eXtravss-
CANT. We We're spending between $780,
900 and $40,000,000 a year under
Cleveland and he was supposed to be
economical. Our appropriations this
year for the navy are about $l02,0OO,-
00O Do you know that a good navy
for the United States is the most ec-
onomical thing that we can have? IT
is equivalent to bond, because If we
have 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 II
went. But the United States has
grown to SO,000,000 and has become the
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 S00O0.0OO peo-
pie; the fact that we are the richest
country on earth; the fact that we
make one-t third of the products of the
earth; the fact that we have this navy
and that it is growing, strengthens our
diplomacy. 1 would like Mr.. Parker
to rise in his place and say whether, if
he is president, he will favor a policy
that will dismantle the navy and dis
continue it's further construction. Il
he does, the loyal and intelligent people
of our country will tramp1e upon him.
If he does not mean to do that, what
is he talking about extravaganza for"