The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-10-03
WORLD CRUISE OF
OUR RATTLE.SH|P5
A Significant History-Mal>ing Move
ment by the United States.
Pacific Ocean Saved to America by
Robust Policy of Republican
Party.


can warships is one Of the most inter.
esting, important and far reaching per
formances Of any administration since
the Civil War. History rides upon the
prov Of the 6agships Of this feet.
Eishty-hye millions Of people have for
months been attempting 70 interpret
the movement and solve the problem
our government is attempting TO prop
erIy adjust by this circumnavigation Of
the globe When President Roosevelt
first announced that the fleet Of battle
ships was TO make the long journey
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean,
the Democrats turned prophets OF evil
and predicted many disastrous things
would follow as a consequence Of this
unprecedented move
Armada and World Cruise.
The armada took its departure from
Hampton Roads Dec rs, 1907, and
after a wholly successful voyage around
the Horn of abont twelve thousand
miles, II dropped anchor in San Fran
cisco Harbor May 6, 1908, The ships
that form the four divisions Of the fleet
In this record making cruise are: The
Connecticut. Louisiana, Maine, Mis-
souri,, Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode Isl
and, Virginia, Alabama, Illinois, kear.
sarge, Kentucky, ONO, Minnesota, Kan
sas and Vermont To which were add,
ed the Nebraska aud the Wisconsin, al.
ready in Puget Sound thus making A
fleet Of eighteen frst-class modern
| battlcships in perfect condition.
There were already in the Pacific
and Oriental waters the fine armored
! cruisers West Virginia, Colorado, Ma.
rylaud ana Pennsylvania. Their two
I sister ships, the California and South
! Dakota were also on the Pacific and
/ the powerful Washington and Tonnes
/ see went from the Atlantic to join the
armada, thus making eight armored
| cruisers to be added to the eighteen
| battlcships In addition there were in
/ the Pacific several protected cruisers,
/ -unhoats and other lesser craft All
tod there we're ten hundred and fifty
| officers and nineteen thousand I'VE Euh'
dred men
In due time the main heet OF war
/ ships resumed its western course ana
will touch at the leading ports of China
and Australia, passing on east hy way
of the west. and coming finally to Nal
| IA and Gibraltar where II VIII coai
and ultimately return TO us starting
point at Hampton Roads some time
early next February.
In this expedition the kepabiisat'
party has a policy which projects itSeH
! far into the future. but 1t IS an entire
misunderstanding Of the whole scheme
to suppose that 1t IS aimed ha'r"".F
or definitely at any single power. II Is
one Of those robust constructive pom
clcS OF the party gagged on WoFId mes
It IS more OF q notification than a
threat TO all existing governments.
welding North nnd south America.
The eyes of the world have followed
our feet with absorbing interest One
If the great Advantages gained by this
cruise IS the cordial welcome and close
acquaintance which it has evoked from
/ the governments and peoples Of the
/ chief republics OF Latin America. To
/ rue h'Al'''ai.>. we Ni-'Hl'"oH' 'ie III
/ lidIN al'h iN# i'FdN cams, Tue A''-hlF "
! public OF the north had been merely n
! name or a dim figure. powerful and