Show DANGER OF A NAVY In alls on the Baltimore Incident Inci-dent The Suppositions Trouble With Chill Manu factured bj People Who Hare a Direct In terest In Securing a Big Appropriation Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch CHICAGO Fob 4The Chilian im broglio is an illustration on the danger of our having a navy said exSenator John J Ingalls at the Grand Pacific today The Baltimore was in the harbor of Valparaiso Val-paraiso where she had m business to be She had a right to bo there to be sure and being there our flag and uniform were entitled to respect but she had no business busi-ness there Her sailors went on shore and got into an altercation The Chilians toll a different story as to the row but some of our men were hurt Had they and their ship been where they ought to have been in the harbor of San Francisco New York Boston or some other American Ameri-can seaport they would not have been hurt The Baltimore and all other warships war-ships of our navy were built for the al leged purpose of protecting our maritime cities from assault by other powers She couldnt do that lying in the harbor of Valparaiso but the officials wanted to make a show of action and they sent the Baltimore to Valparaiso where she had no business as they sent the rest of the fleet to other places where they have no basl nessThe The suppositions trouble with Chili was manufactured by people who have a direct te interest P in securing t a big appropria useless unnecessary navy It was the an nual war seare which is gotten up by these same people just about the beginning of every Congress Do we not need a navy No sir A navy will only get us into trouble just as the Baltimore did There is no necessity for this country sending a lot of warships swatrgering around the earth saying The United States must be respected D it the United States are respected without any bullying of that sort The United States do not need to play the role of bad a man We no more need a big navy than we need a big army Without a navy what could be done la case of trouble In sixty or ninety days wo would improvise im-provise a navy that would astonish the world and defeat anything that could be sent against us We did in 1S61 before the civil war began The rebels dispersed the navy to the four quarters of the globe We had not a ship worth damning Yet we blockaded COOO miles of sea coast closed the Mississippi to incursion and opened it to commerce and created a navy surpassing surpass-ing anything in the world Wo can do it again We can buy the navy of any coun try in the world Great Britain Germany Ger-many France Italy at 50 cents on the dollar We should protect our own coun try there should be great guns on every headaad the torpedoboat system should bo extended and improved Turn Edison loose on that idea for a month and see if he doesnt invent a balloon whence dynamite dyna-mite could be dropped on the decks of hos tile vessels Powerful coast defenses good torpeeo boats practicable war balloons and minding our own business and cease from a policy what excels in building navies where the impenetrable armor of today is met with the irreslstable projectile of tomorrow to-morrow |