Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-03-13
S FAVORED.
-.s SEEMS LIKELY TO
S'0- ,op,zE BUILDING OF
s' TWO BATTLEsHiPs.
.n,,rc ARE INTERESTING
This Country and Others Are
~ .tioa for Fighting Vessels
va o.ooIe Always Approve OF
the Expenditure.
GEORGE CLINTON.

,sstpd that congress at this session
', " rote money for the building of
w s5ditiOnal dreadnaughts for the
... + navy. The fact that the
cOmmittee on military affairs re-
!. cnt down some of the army es-
~ ", aDparently has made many
~ think the battleship building
'r rsm will be foregone. If the coun-
n risbps to keep the navy at its
..nt strength the ships must be
n and il seems certain today, even
40 face of recent events, that con-
- will approve of the building
NE navy is the sister service OF the
nv Naturally what is done for one
5sr Il is expected will be done for
/. dher. Unless two battleships a
N are added to the navy our sea de-
r,ps will be weakened. Navy Off
J, want the present strength to be
-,htaiued and would like it immense
\ tbe lawmakers could be led to
D tbe virtue Of an increase. Two
linz this year seem to be assured.
Navles Are Kept Up.
/ may be that the worlds thought
increasing to a point which will
MA full stop to the whole business of
m but until some more definite
nnise is forthcoming than that
r5ch is held out today, war craft will
launched and put to sea, and regi-
u1ts will be enlisted and sent to the
bnters. Great Britain, Germany, the
ted States, France, Japan, Russia,
hJ and Austria have more or less
bnidable navies and are keeping at
be work of making them more
hnidable.
Bsttleship figures, because of their
ihtng significance, seem to have in
E@t for all people. The battleships
commission or building are: Great
nhin, Y; Germany, 80; United
sates Sc; France, 20; Japan, 10:
ay II; Russia. Is, and Austro-Hun-
py 10. Of armored cruisers, Great
Atain has As, Germany 16, United
Mates II France 20. These are the
ina figures and they show the COM
native strengths of the great navies
1.-The world as they stand today.
What America Has Spent.
Twas not many years ago that the
Elited States began building what is
hoVn as the new navy. Up to the
resent time ships Of the new or COM
Hatvely new type, have cost the
AIle Of the United States for con-
tnctOn alone $477,872,952. The
niger part of this money has been
gent since the year 1900, though the
Agnnings of the new navy are to be
stOack as far as 1890. The people of
aR country have approved this ex-
Rldlture. Members of congress al
5B have found that their constitu-
as are perfectly willing that money
aal be spen! for warships and the
.llaer inland the district from which
-e congressman comes the greater
@mlngly the willingness that the
money should be put into torpedo
@S' cruisers or dreadnaughts. Naval
%pOpriations always have been popu-
al and in order to find the reason
"ls0ody must get into the inner con-
moaSness Of the American people.
why is it necessary to build new
@ps every year in order to keep the
1F at its present standard Of eff
l'ucy Time knocks the battleship
!" Without extending itself to any
: ra'Aeo degree, There is now In the
~ OF really serviceable American
,s'.ueSnlpS only ole vessel that was
'4A prior to the year 1900. The one
~'epuOn is the battleship Iowa, which
! '@ completed in 1897. The Indiana,
%''SSachusetts and Oregon, built
'''u' The same time as the Iowa, are
!. !, "nger regarded as fighters. They
y ! not Included in the total of So bat
s ~ accredited to the United
y; ,@'5S' and yet it seems only yester-
y mat these vessels were carrying
aatago.
Railroads and Canal Tolls.
!, - certainly one-half of the legisla-
~. enacted or proposed for enact
1; W congress during the last IL or
!. ears the railroads have entered
! wv as the angelic Little Eva or as
49,. @u'alized Legree. The carrier cor
S ;r''OnS cast themselves as the angel
,sS r while some gentlemanly law
AN with mean dispositions cast
Il as the slave driver.
.n.S sumo inspired one could take a
A | a, ana paper, do a little figuring
i. Suuace proof that American coast
,oon, SAILING ships can pay tolls
,ma sa the Panama canal and yet
~ e with the railroads for traffic
asrs @ld West, there would be less
,os ~ congress today of the iniquity
Tb S;saiing the tolls exemption clause.
i - railroad matter is entering into
: nn asSent trouble in congress over
Iao 1aesuon of the repeal of the tolls
bsrap 'oh clause of the canal act.
,ar,. are men ready to say that the
ON ~ snlpS can carry their cargoes
we East coast to the West coast
i 81, The Panama canal and beat
bs, .a'ifoads on cost and on charges.