Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — FOR A GREATER NAVY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR A GREATER NAVY.

President Says It’s Necessary to Us as a World Power. The speech delivered at Logansport by President Roosevelt was the one he was to have given in Milwaukee. On learning that he would have to go to a hospital and abandon his tour he concluded to use tlie speech prepared for the Cream City. It is in part as follows: - The question of combining such fixedness of economic policy as regards the tariff, while at the same time allowing for a necessary and proper readjustment of duties In particular schedules, as such readjustment becomes a matter of pressing Importance. Is not an easy one. It Is perhaps too much to expect that from the discussion of such a question It would be possible wholly to eliminate political partisanship. Yet those who believe, as we all must when we think seriously of the subject, that the proper alm of the party system Is after all simply to subserve the public good, cannot but hope that where such partisanship on a matter of this kind conflicts with the public good, It shall nt least be minimized. What we really need In this country Is to treat the tariff as a business proposition, not from the standpoint of the temporary needs of any political party. It surely ought not to be necessary to dwell upon the extreme unwisdom, from a business standpoint, from the standpoint of national prosperity, of violent and radical tariff changes amounting to the direct upsetting of tariff policies at intervals of every few years. It is on every account most earnestly to be hoped that this problem can be solved In some manner into which partisanship shall enter as a purely secondary consideration, if at all; that Is, in some manner which will provide for an earnest effort by nonpartisan Inquiry and action to secure any changes the need of which is Indicated by the effect to Issue from a given rate of duty on a given article; its effect. If any. as regards the creation of a substantial monopoly; its effect upon domestic prices, upon the revenue of the government, upon importations from abroad, upon home production and upon consumption. In his speech at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, the President said in part: As a result of the Spanish war we took a world position which had never hitherto been ours. We now have before us a destiny must i>e one of great failure or great success. We cannot play a small part In the world no matter bow much we might wish to. We shall be obliged, willingly or unwillingly, to play

a Inrge part; all that we cun determine Is whether we will play that large part well or 111. Owing to our position, we do not need a large regular army. Our army la small, but the individual units composing it we believe to be not Inferior to the liest of those of any foreign nation. And It la our purpose, beginning with the present year, to Institute a series of maneuvers which shall offer some opportunity for training our officers to handle their men In masses. But as regards the navy there is no chance of doing what cau be done In the army. The average American Is, we believe, a man offering unusually good material out of which to make a soldier—a man who already possesses the fighting edge and ueeds only to have It developed and who really learns how to march, to shoot and to take care of himself In the open. But no man can In a short time lenrn such highly specialised work us that aboard our great modern warships. One of these ships cannot be built under three years and the officers and enlisted men aboard her would be absolutely helpless to make use of the formidable engines of destruction ready to their bands unless they had enjoyed periods of training ranging In accordance to the station of the man from n dosen months to twice ns many years. No powerful fighting vessel and still less an effective fighting crew can be Improvised after the outbreak of a war. Therefore any wnr In which we could possibly be eugaged-nnd I earnestly hope and believe that there is not the slightest chance of our being engaged In such n wnr—would probably be determined mainly by the navy, and what the navy could do would depend absolutely upon the condition In which It was at the outbreak of the wnr. The fighting units would be the war craft already In existence and the crews which had already been carefully trained. As to the Monroe doctrine, the Presi-, dent said: If we are not prepared to back up words by deeds. It Is far l>etter to omit the words. 1 believe In the Monroe doctrine with all my heart. I believe In asserting, because I believe the American people are willing to back It up. But It never cau be backed up by words alone. A good navy In absolutely essential if we Intend to treat the Monroe doctrine as we should treat it, that Is, as a cardinal feature of our foreign policy.

WHERE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS OPERATED UPON.