The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-25
HOLLAND PRAISES
ROOSEVELT FOR
WARSH|P STAND
Uncomfortable That Congress
Can Throw Away Money on
Submarines" He Says.
MILLIONS ABSOLUTELY
WASTED, SAYS JERSEYMAN
Our Boats Menace to Men
Who Run Them, He Says.
Lauds Japs.

Jehn p. Holland, inventor of the
who has done more to revolutionize the
navy than any other man since Erics-
sons invention of the ironclad Monitor,
today sent kilograms both to President
Roosevelt and United States Senator
Beveridge.
In his telegram to the President Mr..
Holland says:
Your position is unassailable,
right and patriotic. 1t is almost in
conceivable that intelligent Amer
lean Congressman can have the
conscience to throw away the price
of battleship OH useless submarine
boats that were designed to prevent
close blockades and are useless for
coast defense. Those now in use
are proportionately less effective
than the first one built in 1881"
His telegram to Beveridge Is practi-
cally in the same wording.
1.-THE submarine boats of today, with
the possible exception of those of Japan
are absolutely useless in modern war
fare, being nothing more than tubs and
ance of naval men in handling the sub
marine has retarded the perfecting of
the invention said John p. Holland.
Mr.. Holland, in discussing its future.
added that the boats for which this
government had paid many millions
were absolutely of no use, and he said
that additional appropriations for the
construction of more of these boats as
priation bill, would be criminal waste
of public money.
1.-The appropriation, instead of being
wasted, should go for the erection of
battleships," declared the inventor.
Mr.. Holland spoke bitterly of the
naval authorities. saying that they were
hidebound and that an American in
ventor could not get hearing at the
capitol. "They will not adopt new
ideas first hand" he said. "They wait
and borrow the ideas from foreign gov
ernments, ideas which. in many in
stances. are those of Americans who
have been turned down by their own
Mr.. Holland then detailed some of his
with the government, ana
then brought up the case of the Monitor
and the Merrimac." Ericsson, when
he invented the Monitor, which sent
the old navies to the scrap heap,
couldn't get a hearing at Washington"
declared Mr.. Holland.
"Ie was not an Annapolis man, and
it was only after the Merrimac carried
obstruction among the Union feet that
the Monitor was given a chance, and
that little boat did what the crusta-
ceans of the Navy Department failed
to do-saved the day, and but for that
our modern navy might not have ex-
isted"
The inventor of the first practical
submarine then stated that the boat he
had designed was for coast and har-
Dor defense, and that since then the in
stallation of the heavy coast defense
guns removed the necessity of this
class of coast defense.
In speaking of the Japanese sub
MIR. Holland said that they
were a different type, and that Japan
could soon send her submarines across
the ocean with her fleet. they being a
most valuable auxiliary to the huge
lighting machines. 1t was in comBar-
ing the Japanese with the submarines
Of other nations that Mr. Holland de-
clared that all but the Japanese boats
were tubs and a menace to the men
who run them.
Concerning naval authorities opinions
On the submarine. the inventor declared
that tho majority of the principal au-
on naval affairs have shown a
surprising ignorance of the principles
Of the submarine boat, and he cited a
number of instances where the opin-
ions expressed by men high in marine
lore have been ridiculous.