The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-03

.st finish the actual digging within i've or six years; tl1nugh when we come to the great Gatun dam and locks, while there Is no question as to the work being feasible, there are several eie- which maksy t unwise to hazard . prophecy In reference thereto. 5i
 Now, gentlemen. this Heads me up to smother matter for national considera- tion.. and that is our navy. The navy to the eoast<reEfpns. It Is every bit al much the concern of the farmer who dwelis thousand miles from sea wa ter aS ox the Fisherman who makes his livinglen the ocean for 1t Is the con- Snows wfss the sa mssnins mea'can of the worS ad Ratriotism is; This country Is defnite. ly eommftted to certain Fundamental Rolicies-to the Monroe doctrine. for bndns sus when I anf 1t d is Suins ne' of gp poie ing and defending the 8anama Canal
 We have definitely taken our place among the great world powers, and it would be a sign of ignoble weakness. having taken such z. place to shirk fts responsibilities. Therefore. unless we are willing to abandon this place, to abandon our fnsistence upon the NMcn- sna6 cSs doctpins asS ta tS give do up the pansma tfon. we must steadily build up and maintain great lighting navy. -s*
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 our navy Is already 90 efiicient as te larger than at present, 1t must be S con. ne sidered as an elementary principle that the bulk TX Of our battle fleet must al- Panama Canal Is built 1t can be trans- ferred without difficulty from one part of our coast to the other; but even before that canal Is built 1t ought to tsns ps mus to .,frs ,trsnsferrsd to and fro from
 In . couple of months our fleet of great armored, ships starts for the Pa- cifc. California, Oregon and Washing coast line of New York and Maine. of voast line of New York and Maine. of LQufsiana and Texas. Our fleet Is go- iIag nsg to It's own home waters in the Pa- turn to It's. own home waters in the AtIanttc. The best place for a naval officer to learn his duties Is at sea, by performing them, and only by aatually ture, voyage longer than any ever before taken by as large a fleet of any nation. can we find out just exaatfy what is necessary for us to know as officers and enlisted mensiH the highest duties of their profession.
 Among all our citizens there is no body of equal size to whom we owe enlisted mon of the army and navy of the United States, and I hespeak from you the-fullert and heartfest support In the name of, our nation and of our nag. for the services to which these
 In conclusion I wish to say a word to this body, containing as It does SO many business men. upon what is pre- eminentiy business and and control of corporations. At the meeting of the American Bar Assoei- atiop in this last August. Judge Charles F. Amidon. of North. Dakota, read a paper on the nation and the Constitu- tfon so admirable that it Is deserving of very wide study; for what he said was. as all studies of law fin It's figh- est form ought to be, contribution to constructive jurisprudence as 1t should De De pndsrs,cod .ss not etiy by judges but interpret and decide the law, but by those who make it and who administer or execute It. He quoted from the late Justice Miller of the Supreme Court. of the Constitution by thia. the highest authority of the land, the courts sue. cesstve decisions must be tested by the way they work in actual application to the national life; the court adding to experience and observation until the true solution is evolved by A process both of inclusion and exclusion
 Said Justice Mfllei 'srhe meaning of much in, Ire national lite as in the dic- .tionary:" for, as has been well said. government purely out of law library can never be really good government
 New Conditions Arise.
 Now that the questions, of govern. n1ent are becoming so largely economic. the majority of our so-called constf-