Show IF THERE is that great danger to our country from lack of sea coast defenses de-fenses that many say there is to extend ex-tend the construction of them over tenor r ten-or twelve years as provided ftr by Senator SQuires bill is a folly that invites thosa from whom we nay expect ex-pect danger whoever or wherever they may be to make their attack immediately immedi-ately before we are prepared to repel it The country will be as much exposed ex-posed to danger in the next ten or twelve years as in the next twenty or thirty If we are to have an elaborate elabo-rate system of coast defenses we Should have it immediately V |