The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-19

remedy than has yet BEEN used should be
uponhe destruction or defeat Of the submarines them
selves It should not in al reason, be our policy or
Enrlands policy to fight purely defensive warfare
against the submarine with such resources and suon
brains as we have for better plan.
This newspsper. submits that an aggressive and
offensive policy against submarine warfare mas eiIner
not been tested with sufficient vgor and ingenuity, or
that the public has not been cheered by any report OF
the success Of such endesyors.
The U-boat cannot remain above water, 30 the use
Of It's rapidhre guns Is reduced to minimum, a. also
Its overhaung boarding and getting supplies Its de-
termining weapon therefore must be It's torpedo 10
force the Uboat to depend entirely upon its torpedoes
viii necessarily hamper its operation.
THE LARGEST u-BoAT CARRIES ONLY IL ToE-
PEDoEs. AFTER THEY ARE USED THE U-BoAT
MUST RETURN 10 IT'S BASE FOR OTHER TOE
PEDoES AND AMMUNITION.
This Newspaper and the American people, and doubt
less the English people, would be greatly enlightened
and conferred they could know to what extent. Of
daring and ingenuity the effort has proceeded 70 guard
these U-boat chaser5 AND TO DESTROY As FAR AS
POSSIBLE THESE MURDERoUS MONSTERS OF
THE SEA AS THEY GO IN, EMPTY OF AMMUNI-
TON Or AS THEY COME OUT, LOADED WITH IT.
This Newspaper re0us TO the significant fact that
England through Its Premier, fnSptrng and urging our
people TO the construction Of wooden bosts 70 meet the
U-boat menace, herself CONTINUES MOS
STEADILY AND PERsIsTENTLY TO BUILD STEEL
SHIPS FOR her WARTIME POLICY, AND MORE
PARTICULARLY FOR her AFTERWAR POLICY
OF MARITIME AND COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY
THE WHOLE PROPOSITION RECURS TO THE
PATENT FACT THAT ENGLAND NATURALLY Is
LOOKING OUT FOR HER OWN DURABLE AND
ESSENTIAL INTERESTS FOR THE FUTURE MORE
THAN SHE Is FOR THOSE OF AMERICA.
Shortly after Lloyd George made the appeal for
ships that upset Government and revolutionIed
our naval policy, Earl Curzon 9 stalwsrt member Of
the English War Cabinet made the following remark
able statement In the House Of Parliament:
H.. L. e. IL . H.. IL
eE1dfng facilities of the United Kingdom, and at
the end Of the war the British navy will be found
TO possoss . tonnage greater than the navy Tonnage
Of al - rOst Of the world combined"
This statement made by an English Minister In the
English Parliament simply means that England has
changed her naval policy from that Of maintaining her
other nayies to A BASIS SUPERIOR TO THE COM
BINED NAVIEs OF THE WORLD.
Any thoughtful American, IN peace or war ought 70
Be seriously impressed with the significance Of this
astonishing statement.
England Is not to be blamed FOR taking care Of her
for providing for the future, and It Is NOT so
MUCH THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE TO
BLAME ENGLAND, EVEN FOR THE PATENT
SELFISHNEsS OF THIS POLICY as il Is the purpose
Of this article to try as best we can TO AWAKEN
AMERICA TO THE INDISPENSABLE NECESSITY
OF A SIMILAR POLICY ON THE PART or Our
OWN GOVERNMENT.
Commander Hobson, whose years Of consecutive
warning and eloquent plea for TINS nations prepared
have been solemny and emphsticay indicated
as to make him authority Of vsstimportancs on al
the public questions Of to-day CONSTITUTES this new
policy Of England to mean that ENGLAND EXPECTS
A NEGOTIATED PEACE, AND NOT A DICTATED
PEACE, AND IS DILIGENTLY PREPARING FOR
THAT PEACE CONFERENCE BY ESTABLISHING
MORE AND MORE her CONTROL OF THE HIGH
SEAS WHICH WOULD MAKE HER STILL TIL
DOMINATING POWER or ALL NATIONS.
Commander Robson also emphasized the STARTLING
fact thGt while England, with navy already twice
big a. any other navy, preparing TO mako hsr nav
twice or three times a. big ~ It now H. IN ouI
country NOT A SINGLE NEW !WARSHIP 'B TC
COME FROM THE VAST CREDIT OF 81, 900 000, 0o(
Just asked Of our Congress, although our navy Il
languish!ng low In the column Of the worlds nGViSG
Does 1t not seem fair that In our own colossal
period Of building should be allowed 70 give pre
oedence TO building warships and LET THE. MER
CHANT SHIPS WE DO BUILD FOR ENGLAND &
VITAL NECESSITY BE. BUILT SUITABLE FOB
OUR OWN LEGITIMATE PARTICIPATION IN TIKI
WARMTH TROOP SHIPS AND FUEL SHIPS
AND NAVAL AUXIARIES OF SUCH MATERIAL
THAT THEY WILL ALSO HAVE REAL VALUE TO
Us WHEN THE WAR IS DoNE7
PEOPLE OF AMERIoAt - THIS IS AT LAST
YOUR WAR-M MEN, IN MONEY AND IN RE-
SULTS-GooD OR BAD-IT Is YOUR WAR
Patient and faithful and loyal as you are, and q
we all are TO the Government and to'the Administer
lowed, AND WE MUST BE ALLOWED, TO TAKE
CARE OF OUR OWN INTERESTS AND TO CON-
sIDER OUR OWN FUTURE WELFARE AS OTHER
NATIONS DO.
General Goethals is right. He has always been
right He was right at Panama against criticism and
misrepresentation and opposition He is right now at
Washington, because he is, we are, and as every
good American ought 70 be-
FOR AMERICA FIRSTl