The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-17
WITTY SlEEcH
BY mr.. WILLIAMS
democratic kader ConyuIses
the Houst in Debate on !.
NHa! Bill.
FROM CANOES TO AlRsHlPs
hoosEvE{r's .pgAcEr POLICY
suH5EcT OF SARCASM.

,,.e q H. April 1G.-Just before the
Re s.s5s e he, naval appropriation today.
tire <l,[5,ss I've John Sharp Williams got
|tiesf 7snes nd delivered one of the wit
her szs9i les eSer heard in that cham
49, .aliou+1lg himself OF the twenty min
ID for discussing a point of or
fdstf MF>4sl htiams said it was never out
ef9place - read lessons upon civic right
eesisness no the Republican party. He
] tl1en proceeded, amid general laughter. to
declare that wood pulp and print paper
were germane to the bill, because it was
4 ffhe highest necessity to the mainte
ancei OF the navy to spread intelligence
among the people so that they might know
4 now much OF navy Is necessary for ma
tional. defense.
Back to Canoe Days.
9e traced the history of naval construc-
IN of the world, beginning with bat
< IN canoes and declared that from that
y to this the genius of mankind in war
re, in the management OF ships, has
zen directed to getting away from one
another when they were fleeing. or catch
ing one another when they We're DESTROYS
Of fighting. He convulsed the house when
he said that the question was whether an
american navy in the present day can get
away frOm an enemy as rapidly as one
cuid in the distant day to which he had
cen referring or whether the American
4 aVy today could get at an enemy as eff
4 ectively as in those remote periods ''for
l.
\ p. Il see by the expression of the cOun-
\ enance of the gentleman from New York
Nr. Payne), he has the utmost con-
empt"
He spoke of ships being at one time
juilt of iron and said it would have been
foolish to have built too much of a navy
plated with railroad IRON for fear an
Improvement might make the ships obSo-
flete. Therefore, he said, our wise ances-
Tors built only "A few of them, about
two at time, so they could keep up with
new types as new types arose.
At this point Mr.. HObson interrupted
Mr. Williams with the inquiry whether
in run consideration of all The history of
naval architecture the gentleman from
Mississippi finally finds himself on the
side of the Merrimac or the Monitor
Case of the Monitor.
Replying Mr. Williams said amid
laughter, that "a little cheese box upon
a raft referring to the Monitor. "had
the lesson was taught of not making an
appropriation for too many battleships at
the same time. He was, he said, amid
more laughter, solemnly declaring upon
his legislative responsibility my idea Of
what is good for the American navy
When Mr.. Williams touched upon air
ships pandemOnium reigned. when ships
begin TO sail through the air., he said,
''it will not be long before we are equip
ping. perhaps, armorinS and differing
and manning dirigible balloons for the
purpose of destroying-nOt TO destroy any
thing. nor for making war at all-but
for the purpose OF preparing for peace
filling the minds of the world with the
idea that it is the urgent desire of the
American people to go armed in order
that they MAY have no occasion or OPP
portunity TO attack anybody