Show THE ENGLISH NAVY AND TRADE tho the old question mon cornea coic up lit in the liollia house of commons ul whether lether or rot the th navy of 0 great eritt shall be increased it la is much greater in ton ase age und and effectiveness now than the combined heets beets of 0 france and russia it la is ficai ly y us its powerful ns no all the navies of europe but the tact act was stated by ba balfour I 1 four when nhen he be said bald that in future in naval combats england would have to meet opponents who stake slake nothing on the result adlle england stakes all first her wooden walls later lier her iron walls now her steel walls wall are arc En glands defense against attack are En glands against conquest and so the matter of 0 a navy Is 13 always a sensitive one to the british people that Is not lot all england lives by trade iier her statesmen learned years aro that no nation could successfully treat and d trado with feint barbarous peoples or tor for that matter alth civilized peoples unless it had behind its merchant marine a powerful war or navy the example of 0 a squadron in EL a foreign port part coming at intervals has its effect et it if once a nation can attain the position alch the he british nation has just by the example ot of her ships ship and her marines in foreign ports if 1 the impression can be but once given out that it Is s a dangerous thing thine to insult or even attack it a solitary englishman because of the power behind him it Is easy enough to control the trade of such a country the half hak civilized man respects re colb ing so much as force great britain haa ban played that card for many ft A long year yar y ar played it successfully find and only the united states ignores all the los les ong bons s aich the experience of tile wc ld trachea teaches and coen on refusing to subsidize ships and talking the idiotic talk that nil all our trade needs in ili order to be extended Is perfect freedom that 14 it a majority of the statesmen so called who flit fill the louse house of if congress A us well as an that other great statesman who fills the executive chair to overflowing long ions ago settled down to tile the that it if we make our raw matei material tal and our manufactured goods aa dentI destitute tute of 0 protection as are arc those or of great britain we aro can make them and sell bell them in foreign landu against the competition of 0 great britain that works pauper labor in its ita and that sends lines 0 of subsidized steamers to all the important ports ot of the he world with sith as much regularity as 1 Is the motion of the stara while that theory prevails in our country we shall never be a dangerous competitor to any other nation on earth and such beems to be the desire of tho the party parly now in power |