The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-14
WORLD CRUISE OF
OUR BATTLE-SH|PS
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A Significant History-Making Move.
ment by the United States.
Pacific Ocean Saved to America by
Robust Policy of Republican
Party.

The present world cruise of Ameri-
can warships is one of the most inter
estlng important and far reaching per-
1ormances of any administration since
tue Civil War. History rides upon the
prov of the fagships of this fleet.
Elghty-hve millions of people have for
months been attempting to interpret
the movement and solve the problem
our government is attempting to prop
erly adjust by this decentralization of
the globe. When President Roosevelt
nrst 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
unprecedented move.
Armada and World Cruise.
The armada took its departure from
Hampton Roads, Dee. 16, 1907, and
after Il wholly successfulvoyage around
the Horn, of about twelve thousand
miles. it dropped anchor in San Fran
cisco Iarbor May 6, 1908. The ships
that form the four divisions of the feet
In this RECOMMENDING cruise are: The
Connecticut louisiana Maine Mis-
souri,, Georgia, New Jersey Rhode Isl
and. Virginia. Alabama, Illinois, Rear
sarge Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota. Kan
sas and Vermont To which We're add
ed the Nebraska and the Wisconsin. al
ready in Puget Sound. thus making a
fleet of eighteen first-class modern
battleships in perfect condition.
There We're already in the Pacific
and Oriental waters the fine armored
cruisers West Virginia, Colorado. Ma
ryland and Pennsylvania. Their two
sister ships, the California and South
Dakota. We're also on the Pacific. and
the powerful Washington and Tennes-
see went from the Atlantic to join the
armada, thus making eight armored
cruisers to be added to the eighteen
batteships. In addition there We're in
the Pacific several protected cruisers,
gunboats and other lesser craft. All
told there were ten hundred and fifty
officers and nineteen thousand five hun
dred men.
In due time the main fleet of war
ships resumed its western course and
will touch at the leading ports of China
and Australia, passing on east by Way
of the west and coming finally to Mall
ia and Gibraltar. where it will coal
and ultimately return to its starting
point at Hampton Roads, some time
early next February.
In this expedition the Republican
party has a policy which projects Itself
far into the future but it is an entire
Observation-Disclosures of the whole scheme
to suppose that 1t is aimed narrowly
or definitely al any single power. 1t is
one of those robust constructive poll
cies OF the party gagged on world lines.
1t is more of a notification than a
threat to all existing governments.
Welding North and South A!fie:icii
The eyes of the world have followed
our fleet with absorbing interest. 0ic
of the great advantages gained BY this
cruise is the cordial welcome and close
acquaintance which # has evoked from
the governments and peoples of the
chief republics of Latin America. i,
the BraZii;lns. the Argentimes the Chi
ians and Tie Peruyans, the mighty re
public of the north had been merely q
name or a dim figure, powerful and
honorcd perhaps, but nor actually
known. For Years there had been ii
tie or no visible evidence o. The wealth
OF authority on the yaitel States III