Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-09
METCALF Says CRUISE
IS ONLY FOR
PRACTICE
Secretary Of Navy DepreCates
Warlike Aspect Which
Maneuver Is
Assuming.
THIS VIEW IS NOT
JUSTIFIED BY FACTS
Fleet Needs Experience Such a
Voyage Affords and Therefore
Order Was Given" Saws
Head of Naval Depart
ment Today.

Oakland, Cal, July 9.-Secretary
Of the Navy Metcalf deprecating the
warlike aspect that has been given
to the order for a cruise of the
great battleship squadron from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast, said
last night that the proposed move
ment is merely a practice cruise and
that the fleet will not be kept per-
manently in the Pacific.
With considerable emphasis the
secretary voiced his opinion that the
warlike Interpretation given the
fleets movement, was not justified
by facts.
How Quickly?
Oyster Bay, l.. l., July 9.-The
significance of Rear Admiral Brown
sons addition to the somewhat
meager information which has come
from President Roosevelt regarding
the contemplated two-ocean man.
euver of the Atlantic battleship
fleet, is regarded here as having been
overlooked In the comment and 9TH
erwise, which has since been indul-
ged In on both continents.
Admiral Brownson came to oyster
Bay to take lunch with the presi-
dent, processing entire ignorance Of
the maneuver plans. When he left
oa6biiol Ilill W ldht Tile Train IOT
Washington the admiral had one
thought which he wished to empha-
size--that 1t was desirable aud i'm
portant to demonstrate to the world
how quickly the American navy
could transfer its fighting strength
from one ocean to the other.
This was distinctly an addition to
the presidents previous statement is
sued through Secretary Loeb, where
in the object OF the maneuver was
said to be an exercise movement for
the benefit of the navy, to permit its
training fleet exercises on an ex-
tended scale, the purpose and effect
of the plan being for the benefit of
the navy alone. What came from
President Roosevelt through Admiral
Brownson Is decidedly different
and a much broader design.
'To Show" Powers.
President Roosevelt has been con-
sistent In advocating a large navy as
the guarantee of peace between the
United States and all foreign powers.
Heretofore large navy has been
reckoned solely from the viewpoint
of the number of ships, their ton
| mage, armor. guns and fighting ca
pacity. With this idea the Ameri-
can navy has grown steadily, ship by
ship.
To the somewhat uninterestine
| array of ships and tonnage, Presi-
| dent Roosevelt now proposes to give
the world a somewhat startling dem
onstration of what the American
navy is capable of doing to protect
either or both of the extended shores
| of the United States. AS Admiral
| Brownson said "There is no time
| like the present for a demonstration;
| time when the United States is al
perfect peace with the world" ir
everything that has come from the
president regarding the movement II
| has been indicated that the fleet
wherever II. may go, is to be brought
back to the Atlantic, and that the re-
| turn Is to be as great n demonstra-
| ton of peace as the outward jour-
ney.
While II is asserted with all possi-
BILE emphasis that there is no founda.
| ton for apprehension of trouble, i'm
mediate or future, between the
United States and Japan, the pro-
l-posed demonstration with the flee
| can be looked upon in no other light
| than that President Roosevelt in
| tends to use the navy for exactly the
purpose that he has argued Its aug
| mentatlon, a guarantee of interna-
| tional peace.