The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-10-22
WORLD CRUISE or
OUR BATTLE1SHIPS
4 Significant history-Maklns Meys-
nient BY the United States.
Pacific oeesn Saved to America hx
Robust Policy Of Republican
PaFty.

AN win AAuNNr 81 AuNrIH
can Warships is n Of the most inter-
esting, important and far reaching per-
formances Of any administration since
the Civil War. History rides npou The
PROV Of the hagships OF this beet
kiEhty-nye millions OF people have FOR
menths been attempting to interpret
the movement and solve the problem
our government is attempting TO prop
cry adjust hy this Recommendation OF
the globe. When President Roosevelt
FIRST announced that the feet Of battle
ships was to make the long Journey
from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
the Demoerafs turned prophets of evil
and predicted many disastrous things
world follow as a consequence Of this
unprecedented move.
Armada sad world Cruise.
The armada took It's departure from
Hampton Roads. Dec. 16. 1907. and
sitter a wholly successful voyage around
the Horn. o. about twelve thousand
miles- It dropped anchor in San Fran
cisco Harbot Aiay c. 1905. The ships
that form the fou divisions of the feet
IN this accommodating 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 were add
cd the Nebraska and the Wisconsin. Al
ready IN Puget sound. thu making a
feet Of eighteen hrst-class modern
battleshlps in perfect condition.
There were 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 n Tcnnes-
zee went from the Atlantic 10 Join the
armada. thus making eight armored
cruisers 10 be added to the eighteen
battleships. In addition there were In
the Pacific several protected cruisers.
~gunboats aud sther lesser craft. All
told thore we're 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 aisd
viii touch at the leading ports Of China
and Australia, passing on east by way
Of the west. and coming finally 10 Nal
IA and Gibraltar. where IL viii coal
and ultimately return 10 fits starting
point at Hampton Roads. some time
early next February.
In his expedition the Republican
party has a policy which projects itself
far into the future, but II is an entire
MISUNDERSTANDING OF the whole scheme
70 suppose that It is aimed narrowly
OF definitely al any single power. II Is
cae OF those robust constructive poll
cies OF the party gauged on world lines
u II more OF a notification than a
threat, 10 an existing governments.
WefdInR North aud south America.
The eyes ~ the world have followed
our feet with absorbing interest. One
OF the great advantages gained by this
cruise r. the cordial welcome and close
acquaintance which Il has evoked from
the governments and peoples Of the
chief republics OF Latin America. To
the Brazilians. the Argentines. the Chi
Hans and the ~Peruyians, the mighty re-
public Of the north had bsen merely q
name or a dim figure. powerful and
honored perhaps. but not actually
known. For years there had been 1T
lie or no visible evidence Of the wealth.
Or authority Of the United stntes. IN
the chief South American ports hut
they were ali visited By swift and
stately liners. hyinE the Gags Of the
mariiime powers Of Europe,
At every South American port the
feet, onr navy, 40 government, our Ia
siitutions. our people. our aims. our
industries, our t~rade-every conceivable
thing that Is ours, have been discussed
AZ they never were before. and that
without suspicion Of our political and
diplomatic intentions. One business
house IN New York states that 80
South American correspondence has IN
creased fourfold since the fleet visited
RIO 5aneiro. In this ease II seems that
trade may follow the battleshlps.
President Roosevelt Explaias Move
menA.
Ia a statement insa speech he made
IN ST. Louis. President Roosevelt took
the public into his confidence 10 a de-
gree when be said "California, ore.
son and Washington have a coast line
which Is y coast line Just as emphat-
icaliy AZ the eoast line OF New York and
Maine. Of Louisiana and Texas. Our
neet u going 10 its own home waters
Ia the Pacific and after a stay there q
Will return 10 les own home waters
IL tho Atlantic. The best place for the
psval cheer 70 learn his duties - n
sea. By performing them, and only BY
actually putting through a voyage ~
this nature a voyage longer than any
one before undertaken BY - large q
heel 0f any nation, can We ind out
Srst exactly what Is necessary Tor % 10
..r naval naada aud nrac-