Show THE THE AMERICAN AMERICA Burton of Ohio made madea a strong fight against the Uie appropriation In Jn the naval bill for an American n bat battleship of the type of o D Great but he lost 1051 The big fighting f machine Is Ie to be built buil and it itis i itIs is easy ea to believe beleve that tt a great get majority of the American people will be glad of ofIL It IL None one of or us likes the idea Idea of or Great Grel Britain being ahead of us on any prop proposition proposition The Tho Te fact ta t that the thE efficiency of ot ota ofa a battleship such as us the has never neer been b en tasted tet d does doe riot not coUnt for foe fOI anything We e will wf proceed to invest nV st ten or pr r eleven eleen millions of t dollars Jr in a vessel emel esel that that may go gOto to the bottom like ke a astone stone through the explosion of ot a sneaking little lUe torpedo toredo And with her may go g to watery graves sOme thousands of ot American sailors and marines J But wo o 0 oare are not looking forwar forward J to any such catastrophe By jai all means let us have hav havethe h vb the big big fighting ni to the end that we may proudly point to It and say th thore re ii Is none bigger or better beter In the wide aide wide ide world Also Als lQ to the end nd that we emy may use s it I to frighten the nation of or the earth eart out oat of any notion nation they may mayen entertain en ef at their ability to whip Ue te Mr Button Burton spoke of ottle the Increased Inc cost cst of t our navy n nav an increase Int that thai th makes the t total ltd annual expenditure x five itie rEsl as ret l aa as lt H it WM twenty t years ears ago st o He lie H th there is it ita tret a acl a ar cl elated 4 ea a the that t t C CJ the mod m J ern era tendency Is not toward Increased armament but toward disarmament He pointed out the fact fat that the senti sentiment ment mont for arbitration of or International disputes has grown tremendously t In Incent recent cent years and that tha the t e tn seems seel l near ar now noW when war w and lie its attendant horrors will be but out an nn unpleasant I st memory f ff ff f It wa wai waa a good go talk that Mr r Burton Buron made but the house of o representatives was Ws not convinced by bY It President Roosevelt t must mut have O his big stick eUck WIthout it tt he would vo ld riot te the pic plc picturesque character he hei I Roosevelt without the the big stick would would be like a capitalist without capital c He would be like a a leading I actor with a thinking part part His HH chest measurement would shrink terribly and ad his strut would de do degenerate generate rl Into t A a sh shamble f j thought though 1 the there ther ls Is a about ti navy that makes makers mak nil all Amer Americans AmerIcans mer want to see I It maintained at thi highest standard td of efficiency ef regard regardless less les of the tM cost c st The Tho history of ot the navy naY forms ono one on of the chap chapters In a all our our history hl tor From John ohn JohnPaul Pau Paul Patti Jones to George Dewey from the Richard Rihard to the Oregon nil all nI nf of our Ur fighting nen men and fighting ships have risen grandly to their need ned More 1010 power p to the navy nav May a aIt It always alwa be e for tp peace acc I but may m It tt always lW s be ready for tor or war |