Weekly journal-miner., 1915-06-02
NO TIME FOR TWADDLE

news dispatch tells Secretary Daniels much per turbed the fact that six the twelve submarines of the At anc fleet became disabled during the few days of off the All of which proof enough the truth Admiral Knights before the house naval committee last fall that the American fleet would break down under the strain of actual
 The torpedong of the British warsps Triumph and
 Majestic by German submarines in the vicinity of the Dardanees but further startling illustration of the of underwater craft both defensive and offensive warfare and of the their activities Those submarines had make journey of roXmate three thousand miles, threading their through the Straits of Dover the English channel around the Of Spain and Portugal through the Straits of Gbe penetrating the Mediterranean where the fleets of the allies attacking the Dardane forts There they got their deadly work the big British batleshps and the end yet Not of the sub marines has been touched by the of torpedo boats that
 trying guard the big floating orresses from the submesbes
 series of articles in the form of story, appearing in McClures under the title, The Invasion of America and has attracted wide attention these days The story pure fiction of course but nowhere is impossible In view of the developments of the hardly call improbable
 In of preparedness of Germany of ambitions known be baked by crup would be quite possible for the kaiser to land army the American New York Boston, Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington city, and tine lesser cities between Augusta Me- and the national capital collect billions of loot and sail away without running of siderable oss then in the future This country could punish Germany through her army navy whatever she might do eventually commercially.
 What is of Germany should she succeed this nearly true Of Japan The Philippines the Hawaiian islands and the Pacific would be prizes nearly rich the financial and manufacturing ceners of the Atlantic seaboad anal in the of time this country could and would by way prsa, destroy the commerce of the Japs
 is without certain degree mpatience therefore that read of Mr. Byan latest declaration should do instead O preparing love The best that hope for from that policy o cultivate in Germany and Japan the wolf has for the lamb coupled contempt for the lambs ability defend itself.
 When instead of appropang vast of money for the of paying the expenses of foreign while they their education this country suggested Mr.
 Bryan at least hundred million dollars should appropriated for the construction of the latest types submarines sixty million dollars for the building of battle cruisers having both the range and the speed lacked syanla and enough additional money torpedo col1ers hydroaerOplane and give that would not break down should great war come That would give first line of defense To the navy every strategic point on both should be defended powerful as to make successful attack from impossible
 The land forces the United should less than five hundred thousand thoroughly trained and equipped necessary accessories of aeropane automobiles wagons Tor rapid transport and adequate corps dtcn there should be well trained guard least million and there should be military drill in every high school and college of the nation.
 The money expended would give security now lacking 1t would be well placed insurance against umlaon 1t would not be approximation of the mtar ism which has burdened Germany Russia Austria and la zens for the training and have the respect of other nations There is love having that not coupled with respect
 Mr. Bryans talk of making love us before we have respect the sIe twadd and provokes disgust.
 We still think that juror who wanted the colonel pay