Show THE NAVY An Eastern paper tells us that in the last seventeen years the Untied SLat has spent 101100122 on the new navy and the paper adds Everyone Every-one Is satisfied that Uncle Sam has got his moneys worth Ve should say so Because of that expenditure the United States happens today to stand the foremost nation of this earth Because Be-cause of that expenditure the world Is more anxious to do what this whot 111s country thinks and what It would do In a great a gleat emergency than It Is anxious to know what any other power on earth might think or do Because of it new markets have been opened for I our products Because of I new respect Is I felt through all the semibarbarous nations of the earth for the flag of the United State and for the country that the laS I represents And It Is clear enough too that had those appropriations been doubled we should have had no war with Spain because the demands of this country would have been heeded As It was Spain had an idea that in a sea fight she could whip the United States and she was encouraged in that belief by oll the fool journals and fool military authorities of Austria and Franco and was greatly encouraged by the same agencies in Germany 1 was not to be be But fortunately Cortun3eb enough work had been done on thenavy to I make It the most effective machine of Its slzp In all the world I al and Its achievements off Santiago and in Manila Ma-nila bay and the performance of the Oregon in going from Seattle to Jupiter inlet and then without repair taking her place In the fleet of Admiral Ad-miral nmpsol and then when the crisis came her achievements which established that had she been there alone she would have sunk Cerveras whole fleet Just the same all this made an impression on the mind of the world even more than that which was made when the little Monitor ltte gave notice through her guns at Hampton Roads that the fleets of the world feets were prac I prc tically useless for fighting purposes and that the nations must begin to create fleets on a new model If they would be of any ofllcacy in any future war |