Show issDiJHi THE SEA Big Battleship Glides Down Ways at Newport News LAUNCHING WAS A SUCCESS Daughter of Senator Cockrell Was Sponsor and She Performed Duty Assigned Her With the Traditional Bottle of Champagne Which in This Case Was a Missouri Product Ten Thousand People Witness the Launching the Banquet Secretary Long Talked of Navy Newport News Va Dec 2SThe battleship Missouri was launched at the shipyard here today at 1112 1 clock Fully 10000 people it Js estimated esti-mated saw the big defender go Into the woler The launching passed off without a hitch and none prettier or more successful was ever accomplished here Miss Marjoji Cockrell daughter of Senator FM Cockrell was sponsor for tho ship and she performed the duty assigned her with the traditional bottle of champagne using u bottle of Missouri product for the purpose The number of 1 guests gathered around the sponsor r the christening platform was larger than ever seen here MRS ROOSEVELT PRESENT Mrs Roosevelt wife of President Roosevelt came un from Old Point on toe dispatch boat Dolphin With her guests and viewed the launching from ithe steamers deck When tho big boat glided off the wayn into < the water < the crowd on the guests platform gave three cheers for Miss Cockrell three for tho army and navy three for Secretary Long and another three for the shipyard After inspecting the various departments depart-ments of the plant the guests repaired to tho shipyard wharf Io sblpnr whar where they boarded the steamer Washington going to Old Point AT THE BANQUET At the Chamberlain hotel this afternoon after-noon the customary postlaunching banquet was given Five hundred guests sat down to < the banquet Pres ident C 33 Orcutt of the Newport Ncwprt News Shipbuilding company acted as toastmaster Occupying sats of honor on either side of Mr Orcutt wero Secretaries Long and Hitchcock Senator Sen-ator Cockrell Gov Tyler of Virginia IileutGov Lee Missouri ReorAd mlrals Melville Cotton ONeill Capt Capt S C Lemly and C II Spencer first vicepresident of the Louisiana Purchase Pur-chase Exposition company A toast to < the President was drunk standing I was responded to by Sec retary Hitchcock who bore to the gathering the greetings of President oosevel and his regrets at not being r 0 QOCKRELL RESPONDS u Cockrell UO btcuica ouuuiur Francs iu Cockrel a he arose to respond to the toast Missouri illssourl The Senator said Missouris rank in the Union entitled me State to have a battleship named tfter herSho had batteshlp prominent > ant In every controversy civil and oreign thttt > has taken place since her admission Into the Union The Sena tar aroused enthusiasm when ho said Chat the State had sent 60000 men into into the Union the army and nearly a many Confederate arm Confederte army In the late war with Spain Missouri wih furnished Misouri funished her full quota and would have fur nished ful many more had they been ac cepted After Gov Tyler of Virginia had spoken VJrlnlaha the Secretary Long responded to part toat The Navy He sad in SECRETARY LONGS SPEECH r have signed been Interested in tho circular by many eminent clrcular loved friend citizens my be H JOO If which Hale at the head Irf hed they regret the estimate of siooi5oo Ir 00 for 100000 tho Co increase lo of Incrse tho navy Tho of tho size of navy if 1 there Is all Isa to bo a navy at ment rather question like tho tariff of adjust than oC rter principle It IB rather a oCprJnclple Of course mater of taking this thing circular to say nays as a oC 55 1000 for tho navy means a tax every family In the United States Andct yet on tho other Unie State hand of fact It that a n matter tha sum is spent there is ably not prob a family In tho United taml whoso future Income States could be JC less bo shown to alcs and there are a fainillca whoso Income would good many bo d and still moro more 8tl families would be whoso Income b many times 5G less many tmes If it were not qpcnl It is also rtl rather say for that 100009009 could a bo taking better thing to spent education beter eucaton SlOQOCQOOO or charily And yet on the ployment ot mbor la tho spent in tho em Which very best use it could bo put to GREAT QUESTION OF DAY wealth The great Is its question distribution of tho day as to could say that the wholo While few Hhould community bo taxed for communiy tho tribution purpose of dla ldbutan of tho It IH I proceeds of taxation yet 11 some comfort taxaton saro to know of when it Is laid on the a tax which again Into I t if 100000000 community shall returns 100 bo priated for tho shal appro navy by the gress a small present Con E slal part will go for the chase of raw material l pur salaries matcrlol and something for but slarIe the great bulk of it for In labor Grcat every part of the Union labr MORE PROSPERITY f Some how it juat larger now scorns that with in lime revenues of peace tlmn nnd we have had before pece therefore mpro direct and indirect with lg l moro taxation there If tlero pocket of prosperity tho citizen and more than money in tho over before Students may speculate booro over tho spcLlato causes but thla IB i tho demnltlon economic demnlton total UNCLE SAM IS WISE Undoubtedly Uqclo Sam ought to f l wherever other taxaton he can On tho hand it in shrewd I nnd wise to run things j > o as to keep business in him 0 good nnd If an a result his goot confers rlult Income ia large ho much than ho ucILmorQbanofl by spending It would by hiding It Whenever the It Interests l of the country of should reduce require ho his receipts but as they are now excessive the great ficema jo bo how ho Hliall question got the pro cceds back among tho people pr LABOR BENEFITS Another year he may not havo so much L money to spend But If this lvQ > year having le surplus ho spends IOOO haJI6 navy lot Talo ua remember that while It Is I spent under that mime It la t whIQ J met really spent as I Bald before In renly aldboLoro the tho employment ot peoples labolarul and in the purchase of the 01 purchae material niaterlol they havo to people sell and tho got rather moro out of It than the navy does for they got it all back again CONSERVATOR OF PEACE lar Nor that Ifj It u true groat a siigKcatod In the circa names the navy nccensarllv In fighting spirit and leads to war If my rvcollootlon IcalB t Hmyroolooton serves me right while < whlo Great Britain has had Engynt and Brllln hat troubles In Engnt Africa and elsewhere aho has hadno cllowherc end < conflict on HOA for many years et yet her navy has been twice nn as largo 03 that of any other power DID NOT INDUCE WAR Tho recent Increase in our navy VAR not Induco tho naV di war with to have wih Spain which seems hno been Inevitable On Srnll the Other hand beginning it Is of more JSIS than wo hail likely even that 113 it largo in tho navy aa Wo havo a nl Vlo now certainly a on JIB large ono as C now proposed Ihero would have been no war with Spain unit Unit try would havo come to terms lll aa she t camv wna very that time near coming without battle Al lmo however it was the Impression oC foreign powers and general proba bl bly In Spain thnjt her rrO navy would Ier blow us wouJ out oc tho water QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE All tho foregoing deals with quoallonn ot cxpcdlcluncy CUC310nJ which arc tho ani only > ques Lions raised Cues in the circular But I question of principle and that question this 15 queston jtrangcly tho circular docs not touch Tho not signers It jfcoma to mu IntUeud oC raising the quostlon of IUica quCUon O how big the navy ohould be nCV BHOUU have raised Bhol tho n1led es tion of whether ques ot an This I do there not Bhnll bo to any lnvJ not propose argue aa until tho world moves much farther toward to-ward tho minimum ILls harflly worthwhile worth-while to argue It SIZE OF OUR NAVY In determining question what shall bo the slzr of our navy there are a great many things to b4 J contldercil somo of whlpji I hoyercftJtTccl to For instance our world Velatloiis haVe expanded vastly In the Just thrco yetirs in territorial extent ex-tent anti vastly more jp International extent 1 has not Jjeea an extension upon tho continent but upon tho ocean Itself nnd the Islands of the sea In both hemispheres Our commerce has greatly Increased In volume and area and our American marine Is likely to follow suit As on land so on ocoan as you extend your commerce so you muM expand your pollcu force If lliort la to Jw a navy nt nil It should be commnnsuralo with all these extended relations and demands RICHEST NATJON IN WORLD Wo are tho richest nation of the world with L larger liicome than ony other l then the slse I Of our navy should correspond cor-respond to our national mid international size and we have the cash on hand It would scorn tho simplest good business sense tho simplest good business care ot our own Interests to Increase tho navy and wholhor this shall cost 520000000 or 715000000 or 100OW0 it In not an ex iravaKimco to cut our garment according to our cloth especially ng last year thoro was no appropriation for such an Increase in-crease It lo like the rich man grading his expenditures to his Income and thus making it servo the general welfare a well as his own It is like having pollca mon enough instead of having n number so limited that tho roughs nro tempted to rIot I MONEY IN THE TILL There certainly Is1 I f heap of comfort In fooling that 1C millions are now spent for tho navy tho t money Is In the till to spend I is a case whoro the peoplo can have their cake and eat It too they can have their ships and they can have In their pockets tub money paid for building build-ing them WHAT IT MEANS I will not pursue tho topic further but a Unlted States naval vesse I carrying our flag Into tho ports jiril harbors of the world Is something moro than u lighting machine JLt menus relations with thosp ports It means nn awakening and lively rcsppflt here for our country It moans recognition of the outreach of our civilization civili-zation commerce and Influence it rca 1S just what would be meant If n fine representative rep-resentative of Now York Boston carry ihg her prestige exploiting her Interests were In every other city of the Nation |