The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-20
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AGITATON.

Strike for the Atlantic fleets
coming staying gongor Hawaii join the loud chorus OF
the mainland calling for the retention of the great armada the Pa
pointed article in the San Francisco News Letter
asks for Hawa influence in favor that object Captain and Con
gresham his like syren keep the fleet in n
giving nation warning that until the Panama canal brings
about facility of concentrating protective strength either the
withdrawal the beshps from the Pacific will be fraugh witt
great peril Former Governor Padee California in
trbution THE Panama Canal Factor il
Peace and War" says:
the Pacific from lies Japan which, since it
whipped Russia almost all the time be beigerenty
disposed Should break between this
try and Japan (Which God forbdD this Of the
United States after the Philippines and Hawaii will be the
object of Npponese attack If time the Panama Canal
be open, it will be necessary send to the Pacific by
long and hazardous voyage through the Straits Of Magellan
those of warhips which in the Atlantic. With the
Canal OPEN navy may be concentrated the Pacific
onehrd of the time that would be required Under
conditions country requires order prevent
carry quick and successful ISSUE if be forced
upon great and powerful navy in the Atlantic and
other in the Pacific The opening of the canal will without
the building another ship virtually strength
navy three times because will permit quick
cenraion either the Atlantic or~he Pacific of the battle
ships may, at that time have One ship will, therefore
then be able to do three times the work do pre-
vent war or to defeat enemy in of
Another writer gives cogent leaving at the
protection of the vessels there together with those being added
right along their number Upon the Atlantic
ships Iowa Massachusetts,, Indiana IDAHO Mississippi New
the seaboard the mored cruisers New York
of old type and the big Montana North Carolina Improvements
on the Washington and Tennessee Then four baesp pow
eru than have aoat building
the Michigan and the South Carolina larger
the Pacific fleet and the other
and her sister ship Moreover Congress has provided
two baeshps of the Delaware type 1t further pointed
that in smaller craft torpedo is
better provided than the Pacific having
three single defense monitors.
From all this argued that the plain destiny the Atlantic
fleet rapidly with the addition most power
full warshps demosh the objection transferring the big fleet
which has arrived the Pacific the Atlantic
fleet The writer whose facts just quoted concludes his
article in the following strain:
Every military student every far-seeng statesman every
man OF common appreciates the need retaining the
present large fleet in the Pacific obviously to be the
scene OF the worlds great struggles Our inter
ests bound up with those European countries that
possibility of a with them extremely remote 1t is
not so in the Pacific. This bulwark of the white
race against the awakening Orient In the Pacific the To-
cation OF powerful fleet To withdraw the feet from the
Pacific any time in the future would be to commit
objectionable military bunder