The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-09
RODEREK 0. MATHESOS, EDITOR



dent Wilson. in hispreparedness tour, openedsth
campaign an enthusiastic gathering which packe,
Carnegie Hall, New York City, to- the dnorssfe
ports Leslie's Weekly of current issue Congress
man Galloway of the house committee on 1rava
affairs raised applause when he declared tina
since battle cruisers are the eyes OF the eetJ AN,
since our feet will do no hunting, it will need NJ
eyes. Mr. Galloway the defense OF this coun
try resting, not on trained armies but on red
blUoded Americans who would rally To- its defenss
over night, and quoted General Nelson \. Miles
who testified before the house military COMMITTEE,
that it foolish to consider the possibility of
foreign army landing our shores. Oscar j
Bolton of the New York State Federation q
Labor assured the audience that labor is againSI
preparedness, while James H. Maurcr, Presideia
OF the Pennsylvania State Federation ct LabfH
said the w0rkmen Of his State would neNer;Shgli)
for the military capitalists, and declared, Il posi-
tn ely refuse ia shed drop OF my own blood, Of
to advise any of my class to she'd theirs in fighting
anybody's battle but their own" go
Addressing the Connecticut Peace Society, Prof
William Lyon Phelps of Yale said. "I'hc common
idea that foreign insult to our flag should BE-
avenged is wrong. II foreigner should spit upon
our flag that would not disgrace us SO much. al
ii we dyed our flag in American blood in en-
deavOr to avenge the insult IA
The other side of the story is the agreement 81
over fifty banks, trust and insurance companies
and industrial corporations in New York, to give
their employees a full months leave with pay in
order that they may attend the summer camps
for military training at PlattSburg and elsewhere
This extra vacation time will cost the companies
about 100000 and the total expense to the men
will approximate the same amount ~.
The New York Tribune makes its contribution
to preparedness in a series of graphic articles un-
der the caption, Are We Prepared:" the accuracy
OF the statements being vouched for by ranking
officers in the army and navy.
The impression prevails that our munition plants
under the pressure of contracts are turning
out enormous quantities of munitions. AS matter
Of TACT after twenty months of industrial prepared
ness, our plants, both government owned and
private, turning out but 10000 rounds of artii-
lery ammunition day, while at the present time
England is using 10000 and France $4,000 Shells
daily. To make even this small Quantity Of shells
to fit American guns would demand new macRin-
cry which would require months to be manufac-
turcdS
Comparing our means Of defense with that of
hfth-rate powers have nothing of which to be
proud These countries all excel the United States
IN size of armies Sweden, Rumania, Serbia, Bull
ngaria. Switzerland, and Holland II our entire
mobile army and trained militia were called to
the defense of New YorA City, they could eStab-
fish single trench but two-thrds the way around
the city. Paris, only about one,haf the size OF
New York. ha, garrison force at the present
time greater than the entire force that could be
gathered by the United States.
Preparedness advocates contend that we have
years OF work ahead before our military prepare
tons would approach adequacy for defense, and
that there Is II" danger from aggressive mill
tarSm until we have reached the point when we
are able at least t" defend ourselves from inva
sion Even then the danger will be very small,
for there is but little military ardOr in the hearts
Of the American people,
In the same issue of Ie,lic's, Thomas f. Logan
touches some features Of naval unpreparedness
The powerful drcaduuught Butcher, he points
out, was destroyed in battle in the North Sea
during the present war, not because of lack of
armor or lack OF big guns, but because, when con
Tonted by superior number OF ships, she was
too slow to get away. Nevertheless, the Butcher
was able to make three knots more per hour than
the fastest armored ship in the American navy.
England has twenty battleships capable Of
making from twenty-three to twenty-nine knots
an hour Germany has fourteen and Japan has
four. The United States has none
The most powerful batteships for modern war
purposes are those which possess guns capable
of being elevated thirty degrees having armor
plate OF medium thickness and which are able to
speed from twenty-five to twenty-eight knots per
hour. There are no such ships in the American
navy.
The two new dreadnoughts which are about to
go into service, the Oklahoma and the Nevada
made about twenty-one knots in their speed tests
As against such ships. which are the latest product
of American ingenuity, Japan has three battle
ships which can make twenty seven knots. These
three ships are OF 68,OOO horsepower, while Japan
has one superdreadnought the last word in bat
tleships, which has 10000 horsepower and speed