Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-13

solutely t%errorized with the fear OF
bombardment by Spanish warships
and If they lose sight of the big bat
tleships of the navy for a year or two
the president expects them to be WILL
ing 20 vote plenty of money to guar
antee their prompt return and and
continued presence. Senator Hale. OF
Maine, chairman of the senate COM
mittee on naval affairs, has always
been the bulwark in that body against
appropriations for a large increase In
the navy.
BY sending a fleet 10 the Pacific
coast, the proper sentiment. Of course,
win be stimulated. Once having a
taste Of the navy and witnessing the
magnifcence of the ships, the mem
bers from that section. backed by
public sentiment will vote as the adj
m~inistration may ask up to any cas-
enable amount. The speeches of the
president during his trip down the
Mississippi river constitute the educa-
ton of the inland inhabitants. The
need of a navy as the guarantor of
peace and the strong arm of the ma
ton in time of war, the need of pre-
paredness in advance, the inability to
build ships quickly when wanted. all
are the arguments favOring appro-
p%riations by the coming congress that
the president has been driving home
to his auditors. The reception given
the speeches shows that the president
has not engaged in this propaganda
in vain. His addresses have been
cheered to an echo and there Is lite
tie doubt but hat under the impetus
given by the president and the gem
eral popular approval of everything
the president so far has advocated, he
will win in this fight which marks the
commencement of the construction Of
the more modern and greater Ameri-
avy
The sentiment for a large nav also
has been fostered by the jamestown
exposition. So far as has been
practicable the ships have been kept
In Hampton Roads as exhibits for the
visitors to this exposition. Nine-tenths
Of the visitors to jamestown are from
interior states where ships of var
are never seen and where the navy il
only to read about. These
have been open to public in
spection; in fact the public has been
urged to go aboard and see what a
modern warship is like. and officers
have Wed with each other in explain
ing the operations of q big fighting
machine. Enthused over these men
and prouder than ever of the
lag which they are intended to pro-
.ect, every one of these visitors re-
to his inland home an advocate
IF the American hay and ready to
support his member when he votes
sums of money for its construc-
ion and maintenance.
Thus, i'm divers ways is the policy
IF the president being bolstered and
public opinion accelerated along this
particular line. 1t costs enormous
ums OF money to build and maintain
/ navy, and sums more huge than
inything the American people have
yet been asked TO approve will be re-
luired If the nation Is to have a two
ocean fleet. This money cannot be
without popular public approval
the presidents recent speeches
ire the big guns of the opening cam
to obtain this approval. A mod
I'm battleship is valued at about ten
dollars completed and ready
% go into action. -Four such ships
authorized BY congress means an X
,enditure then of upwards of $40
100. 600. There probably would be a