Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-19
e FOR PROBE OF NATIONAL DEFEES TOLD CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE

ddoCtrine unless We are prepared to
, fight for it? Then again, We have
, looked square in the eye OF the most
military nation which Asia has ever
| known. and We have said, We will
have none OF you within our borders
/ Do you suppose proud people like the
japanese will continue to listen with
| cQuanimi;y to a doctrine like that, I'M
| less behind that doctrine lies a force
which can put it into effect? Per
! haps men may say that the Monroe
! doctrine and the AsiatiC exclusion doc
| trine are prompted Ivy national selfish
ness So be it | concur in both doc
! trines am ready to battle for them
and | am ready To pay the bills for
enforcing them.
Possibly the world may think that
| this country is a dog in the manger
| in its attitude toward South America
and Mexico. At all events let us not
be toOthless dogs in the manger, who
bark noisily, but when it comes 70
biting are found wanting.
The Navy
| believe that our naval school at
! Annapolis leads the world. Ny. race
pre- judiCe leads me to believe that
| perhaps English-speaking men make
a lit lie the best sailors in the world
| There our advantages end Let US
try not TO fool ourselves. Competent
officers and brave men will not offset
the difference between a 6-inch gun
and a 12inch gun.
| How many men do you think we
need in order to man the modest navy
which we have? We need from 4, 900
to 100000 men. And how many do
you think that we have? We have
just about $4,000 men and some 5000
naval militia Before we can mobilize
our entire fleet if it is all worth mo-
bilizing, which it is not, we must en-
list approximately Al 600 raw recruits,
many of whom never s}w the sea in
their whole lives.
| We have been reading about the eX-
ploits of the submarine which the Ger
mans call U-9. We are told that she
sank three British cruisers by three
| successive torT&does. Perhaps you
think we might do the same thing. We
might if we had the torpedoes, but
! do you realize that we have on the
",
/ built or building, for each torpedo tube
with which our vessels are supplied?
| Mr.. Borland-Does the gentleman
care to yield?
Mr. Gardner-Certainiy.
Mr. Borland-My understanding is,
and | ask If it be correct, that the
1 United States has spent more on it's
I navy in recent years per year than
any nation except Great Britain; that
we have exceeded annually the naval
expenditure of Germany by twelve or
fifteen million dollars. Is not that
the fact?
Mr.. Gardner do not know. What
ieffect does that have on the argument?
Il Mr.. Borland-Onde those conditions
ought we not to have a better navy?
7 Mr.. Gardner can not tell the gen.
tleman. ] am talking about the re-
suits, not about the causes. do not
wish to go into. controversial, matters
of that sort know the answer and
SO does the gentleman who interrupted
me- Construction is expensive in this
country and our crews are highly paid.
The German crews are unpaid, think
az Mr.. Speaker, as I was saying, we
have only one long-range torpedo for
each torpedo tube. You might almost
as well have one projeetiIe for each
gun, except that torpedoes cost 5000
! each, and they are said to take nearly
one year to build.
K The plans Of modern warfare on the
sea require fast scouts to keep in
touch with the enemy and find out
where he is. These scouts must have
a minimum speed of 80 knots an hour.
How. many such scouts do you suppose
We have? Nh. Speaker, we have only
three Of these scouts with which to
obtain our Information Germany has
| IA fast scouts and Great Britain has
81. How about the great lighting
weapon. the ship which must lie across
the ocean paths and intercep. the enc
my? How about the dreadnought and
the dreadnought cruiser, the great,
strong lighting men-of.war? Let us
bseel how we stqnd in that respect.
Great Britain has AZ dreadnoughts and
dreadnought cruisers built and build
ing Germany has 2G We have only
II, and three just authorized oh"
Soii say, "the day of dreadnoughts, has
gone by; it is submarines which we
want. - do not agree with you that
! the dreadnought's day has passed, but
most certainly believe that we need
powerful fleet of submarines. Let
us see how we stand in that respect
Great Britain has GA submarines, and
we are fourth on the list So it goes
ave are short of nearly every kind of
vessel and nearly every kind of arma-
ment. The longer it takes to build
things, by some strange chance it
seems as if the shorter we were of
them
i Now. if we have not got a fleet,
shin for shin which matches the fleet