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Show Admiral Mahan. jvtired. lias ;j cominunir.jtii.n in the Sun of New York in which he r.imhjit th theory that our ioveninient ouirht to srnd three battleships to Manila, and thinks the result w.mld hp. in case of war. that we would l,o in the sjone fix as Russia was when she divided h r fleet, h h -1 n -r one part at FV.rt Arthur and another t meet Admiral Toco, and pot whipped in detail, and he reaches the conclusion that almost any level-headed man would reach, that the only safe thine to dn is to have a sufficient fleet in both the Pacific aiK (nP Atlantic. It seems to us that we either oucrht to prepare to maintain our country as a world power or to take the same position as does Switzerland arm-tie the European nations have the world guarantee that they shall not attack because we are so weak. i |