The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-01-21
,,...... PROTECTION
REPUBLICANS AIM
.Borah Would Test SINGER
ity Of Europe's Plans
To Disarm.
tBy Smell Smith)

-armam ents, which is now agitating
European governments as well as the
capital of this nation, it is already de-
termined that the Republican major
ity in Congress will stand for nothing
less than a naval force sufficient to
meet any emergency that may arise
in the future.
1t has been proposed by Senator
Borah that the United States and
Great Britain agree to fifty per cent
redu ctien in their naval building pro-
grams for the next five years. Sem
-ator Walsh, of Wyoming, a peace
loving Democrat, is attempting to
turn this idea to the benefit of the
Wilson administration by suggesting
that the United States participate in
the disarmament commission of the
League of Nations, using that as an
opening wedge to participation in the
whole general scheme which was re-
pudiated at the polls in November by
n majority of seven millions of votes.
England i'm the Lead.
Senator Borah's plan is really an
attempt to sift out just how much
sincerity there may be in the disarm-
zsment pretences of the European and
lAsiatic states which are members of
che League. He wants to know
whether Great Britain, which sent
Representatives to the conference at
Geneva, intends to suit it's action to
Ethe word and actually disarm to any
extent agreed upon by the United
States That Empire is today mis-
gIress of the seas, as it has been since
the days of Drake, and most Republic
sEans in Congress do not believe it in
tends to relinquish that position ex-
s@ept by force.
However, there has been much talk
of disarmament. The Hague confer
ences discussed it.. The peace confer
-sncgs which assembled yearly at
14Rhenk discussed it. But nobody
did anything in the way of disarming.
statesmen met and talked, but the
aruining went right on. The greatest
aVar in history came along and even
that did not feaze those who sought
20 do away with war by making no
preparation for it. The League of
Nations, conceived by the British in
yor1er TO maintain territorial integrity,
sSas also to take up the disarmament
question. And it likewise met re-
GENTLY and discussed it, but no action
1Sas taken. Not battleship was dis
nantled. Not a regiment was dis
= handed.
What America Must Protect.
- So Senator Borah means to put
all this pretense to the test of sin
cerity. He aims to find out whether
Great Britain means business. Other
wise, he refers the inquirer to his
speech advocating big navy. Sena-
s1Or Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey,
sides with him in this stand. He is
a member of the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs. Assured that within two
years the United States will have the
largest navy in the world, because Of
ships now in process of building, he
seeks to bring about reduction OF
armament on the basis of that time.
His figures were admitted recently in
the House of Commons. 1t has been
rumored that the British government
would yield to a proposal to reduce
the two greatest navies OF the world
and maintain them on an even basis.
But this is only rumor. Frelinghuy-
sen Joint Borah in declaring that UNI
less England and Japan also agrees
10 disarm this country must maintain
the greatest navy on the globe. This
is what he says. \
New York has replaced London as
abe banking center of the world. We
have supplanted England as the first
trading nation of the earth. Our
ocean carriers have grown in three
short years so that we now are with
in striking distance Of her tonnage.
We are the greatest producing nation
ON the globe. BY training 100000
men and sending 900 across the
sea to win every battle in which they
were engaged and turn the tide, we
nave made Washington the capital
of the world. Our wealth, which be-
fore the war exceeded the combined
opulence of the British and German
Empires, has gone on by leaps and
Iaoands. The ROmanoff, Hapsburg
and Hohenzollern lynasties, which oy-
-eraged weak nations for centuries
have disappeared and !Geas OF repub'
sican government ara permeating the
world
May Built 10y Hpubiicpns.
An this, he goes on mea'4s some
t6mg worthy of protection by big
.-,azyv And This. unless Great Britain