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Show WARSHIP UTAH I Declared Among Greatest of Uncle Sam's Fighting Craft; Naval Officer Addresses Bonneville Club. STORIES OF THE SEA I PROVE GREAT TREAT H Makes Appeal for Adequate Navy as Surety of Peace and Guarantee of Canal ' Neutrality. The battleship Utah is o'uo of the IH greatest of all fighting craft, and the lator dreadnoughts of tho American IH navy aro only larger Utahs. Tho sil-ver sil-ver service of the battleship Utah is tho very finest of any battleship in tho navy. jH With these statements Roar Admiral Uriel Sebrco enthused 200 guests at the monthly dinner of the Bonneville VM club at the Hotel Utah last night, be- IH fore whom the admiral made his pica for an adequate American navy. Admiral Sebree is more of a sailor than a speaker. However, his address waa listened to with great interest by tho mombers of tho club, and his sto-ries sto-ries of the sea woro a great treat. "For half a contury the admiral has been an officer of tho American navy, work-ing work-ing his way from ensign to rear ad-miral. ad-miral. The admiral appealed for an adc-quate adc-quate navy as the best possible peace insurance Peace would be absolutely certain, he caid, n'ust so long us Amori-ca Amori-ca had a navy adequate to protect tho American shores, to guarantee the ncu-trality ncu-trality of tho Panama canal, to aid and protect American commerce and to up- kH hold tho dignity of tho American flag. Unless wo had such a navy, the ad-miral ad-miral said, it would bo useless to have any navy at all, save a few small cruiserB to protect American shores from pirates and to attend to the rou-tine rou-tine of government business upon tho tM Defends Sailors. Admiral Sebrco denied tho stories frequently circulated as to the wild debauches of sailors and tho mistreat-incnt mistreat-incnt of the sailors by their officers. He said that 4000 or 5000 sailors turned IH loose in a soaport wero not as unruly as a similar number of college students under like conditions. As to the sto-ries sto-ries of tho mistreatment of the sailors by the of tic or ho declared they had ab-solutely ab-solutely no foundation. Judgo W. H. King, who acted as toastniaster, mado a brief but eloquent address of introduction. The judge pleasantly referred to his recent trip to Washington, to the scramble for fed-era! fed-era! appointments in Utah and to the approaching senatorial election in this stato. More than 200 members of tho Bon-nevillo Bon-nevillo club attended tho dinner. Tho JM army and naval officers stationed at Salt Lake woro among tho guests. A IH most excellent and palatable dinnor was served in tho main dining room of Hotol Utah. Plowere were on every table and behind the speaker an American flag was draped. Tho Hotol Utah orchestra furnished excellent mu-sic mu-sic and the Hotel Utah trio Bang a number of vooal selections. Refers to Politics. In introducing tho speaker of the fH evening Judge King said: ,H Wo aro told that those who speak beforo tho Bonnovillo club aro so-lected so-lected not for their oratorical ability, but because they bear a message to be delivorod. I don't IH know what message I am to deliver. IH Perhaps to tho .Democrats of Utah IH I may bear the message that Prosi- dent Wilson may givo them a fow IH federal appointments aftor a while. jH Perhaps I am expected to say to tho few Republican fcdoral office; IH holders that they aro not out of favor with Prcsidout Wilson, pnr-ticulnrly pnr-ticulnrly so long as they contmuo to give good service. IH Perhaps I am expected to say to you that former President Rooso- B'J velt is expected back in Washing- RJ ton from his South Amorican trip Efl and to decide whether he shall bo the candidate of tho Republicans. tho Progressives or tho Democrnts IH in 1016, or whothor ho shull ainalga-mato ainalga-mato nil three parties and then choose their joint candidate. Perhnps I am expected to bring you the message that Senator Bam- jH ' bergor at my right and Mr. AToylo IH at my left aro ensting envious eyes upon tho two senatorial Beats at Washington arid that the senior senator from Utah, who, from a Re- publican point of view has given IH such signal service, is ougorly plan- JM ning tho retention of hi.s seat. Taft Supports Wilson. PorhapH I am expected to toll you JH that at Washington wo have a president who is bunding every on- jH arcy toward tho solution of tho IH ercat problems that Ills administra- IH lion must solve. Perhaps I am ex- (Continued on Pago Four.) I IBITTLE1P UTAH IS PRfiiSED SEBFIEE (Continued from PaRo Ona.) pected to wiv that the great Rc-publiean, Rc-publiean, Mr. Taft, who was his pre-docoisor pre-docoisor in office, is loyally supporting sup-porting the administration m the big problems of the day. Perhaps I am expected also to boar this: message that Republican?, Bull Mooscrs or Democrats, wo aro all btanrh and patriotic citizeus of the same groat republic. Referring to the distinguished guest of- honor, .Judge King called attention to Admiral Sebree's great service for the government during fifty years of active life in the .navy on every $ca and in every part of the globe. As the admiral ad-miral nrofo to speak ho was given a groat ovation. Admiral Scbreo said: 1 acecpted with pleasure your In- -vltatlon to address you. In regnrd to tho nnvy. which Invitation waa received re-ceived by me early In January, through the . secretary of the Navy league, Tho Navy league Ih a nonpartiKan. patriotic organization, whose purposes pur-poses nre to acquire and spread be-foro be-foro th citizens of tho country in- formation as to tho condition of the United States naval forces and ships, and to awaken public intoreat and activity In all matters tending to aid. Improvo and dovelop the efficiency of the navy. Whllo eomo nRvnl officers arc members, the president General Horaco Porter and directors are clvlllnno. All reputable citizens, both nion und women, are eligible to membership. mem-bership. Germany has a Navy league with more than a million members. It Ih thought by tho members of the Navy Icagun that we should have a Htrons navy. Each of the three prcat parties, in their party platforms, a year nnd a half ago advocated an adequato navy. Favor Adequate Navy. About lmlf of our population aro either foreign born or are the children chil-dren of forelpn-born parents. Of these a larpo part arc of the Latin racesand the Latin races are not now, nnd never were. Peafarlng' people. peo-ple. Notwithstanding these facts, it Jh believed that the majority of our people, of all parties, aro In favor of an adequate na'vy. Somo of the arguments now used against an adequate nnvv aro the cunitt that wore used early In tho last century npnlnot establlHhliu; an organized or-ganized police force In "Now York City. It was argued that tho old watchman with his long r.taft nnd feeble light, was all tho protection needed, especially as he kopt watch only until decent citizens were In bed. and therefore did not coat much, nnd calculations wore made of the great good that could bo done in charities and public Improvements with the money that the organized police force would cost. Just Oie same nrgumcnts arc made now, by some of the penco advocates, against tho expense of tho navy. The cost of tho police force of the United Slates now la greater than the cost of the nnvy. Tho amount of money expended on the navy Is a queetlon for tho people to decide. Wc should either have an adequato navy or practically no navy. The expenditure of $140,000,000, or $200,000,000, a yoar on the navy, n very largo sum. Is for tho people to decide de-cide If tho people ns a whole think we should keep up an adequate navy, congress will authorize the money and tho executive officers of tho government gov-ernment will build and maintain the navy. Nonpartisan Question. It is not a question of party at all there should be only one party in rogard to tho navy. I bellevo If the people could be properly Informed a. large majority would bo In favor of an adequato navy for our country. It Is not a question for the people of tho seaboard states to decide. You people of Utah aro aB vitally interested inter-ested In thlB matter as are tho people peo-ple of Boston or San Francisco. Tho peace societies aro for peace. A. strong navy Is the very best guarantee guar-antee wo can have to Insuro peace. Business men tax themselves for protection against all kinds of possibilities possi-bilities against fire, against liability from injuries, and provide for their families ngalnst tho loss by death why not tax themselves ngalnst war? Anyone who tays there is no possibility possi-bility of our having war with one of the great military powers either In a deceiver or his Judgment is bad. Nations aro like tho Individuals composing them. Whllo we hope there has been an advauco In civilization, tho fact remains that human nature, with all its strength and weaknesses und passions, is the same now as It has been Always. Man Is now. and always has been, a fighting animal. And, bad as war Is. there ore worso things than war. Dr. Lyman Abbott says: "Christians have not stood, and ought not to stand, for peace at anv price. Tho history of tho world would be poorer If there wore no heroes that dared to fight for Justlco and liberty." Progress Is Made, More progress has been made toward world's peace in the fourteen years since the first Hagus conference than in nil tho timo before, because tho movement is ono not necessarily for jeaco, but for International Justice. Tho pence societies are for peace, and an adequate navy is the very best Insurance In-surance wo can tako out against war. Look at England, with her strong navy; sho has had no war with a military mili-tary nation in 100 years. Men insure their lives, and their property, not because be-cause they expect to dio tomorrow, or their property will bo destroyed tomorrow; so. having a strong navy does not mean we may havo a war tomorrow. Having a strong nai-y will keep tho peace, not make war. Somo of the peace-at-any-prlco advocates ad-vocates wrongly accuse, or intimate, that naval officers want a strong navy because they wnnt a war. 1 know that officers of the nnvy want an adequato navy, because It Is tho surest and best means of keeping peace, and not for tho purpose of making war on some weaker nation. With an adequato navy, no nation Is Hablo to attack us. When differences differ-ences arise, they are much more apt tp be settled by diplomacy, or arbitration, arbitra-tion, when we have n strong navy, than If wo had a weak one. War and Peace. Until the strong nations become fo educated nhat they will carry out. In good faith, all treaties of arbitration, wars will not cease. Since our existence, exist-ence, a a nation, w have had one' year of war to about five years of peace. Since tho first Haguo conference, fourteen years ago. there has scarcely been a year without a war somewhere. some-where. And It Is very sad to know that toe horrors of war have not decreased. de-creased. If we can believe eome of tho things we hear In rogard to the war In tho Balkans last year and In Mexico now. If we Intend to carry out the Mon-,roe Mon-,roe doctrine, which Is Just as strong and no stronger than our navy; if we Intend to guarantee the neutrality of the Panama rana!; if wo Intend In protect our rUUens at homo and abroad; if wo intend to restrict I Asiatic immigration; if w Intend to do.,0r'r Rhare as one of tho big and enlightened nations of the earth In attempting to keep peace, wo raunt hP up an adentiate nary. What U an adequate navy? We bare in Washington a board of naval officers, with Admiral Dewey at tho heed of It. called the general ibowrd. Th personnel of the board, rrxrrpt I' admiral, changes. Tho boar1 wan t-H rn K-V) Three years afterward, in 1903, after making a thorough study of our needs and what other nations were doing, tho board reported to the secretary of tho navy that our ileet should In 1020 consist of forty-eight first-clans battleship?, bat-tleship?, with the necessary torpedo destroyers, submarines and oilier auxiliaries. Reported Annually. The board has reported annually since that time; tho reports wore filed away, und until quite recently they were not published. Socretury Daniels, Dan-iels, in his recent annual report lo tho prcsldont, published the report of tho general board and the great public now known what tho general hoard recommended. The board recommended in 190" a building pollcv of two bnttlcshlps a year, with an extra shin the third year. The number forty-eight was adopted, not hecauso there happens to bo forty-eight states at present, but 03 a result of a careful study of the whole question and our needs. Congress lins not kepi pace with this programme. Now wo aru building build-ing No. 39. A year ago congress appropriated ap-propriated for only one ship, notwithstanding not-withstanding the platforms of tho three parties declared for at least two ships a year. At that same session ses-sion the congross increased the pensions pen-sions from SlfiO.000,000 to $185,000.-000 $185,000.-000 a year. The general hoard recommended this year, as published in the report of the secretary of the navy, four battleships, sixteen destroyers, eight submarines, and transports, nupply vessels, etc. These four battleships, bat-tleships, if authorized, would tnke the places of the Oregon. Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Indiana and Iowa. Tho first thrco were authorized In 1S90, tho Iowa In 1S92, and they will havo to bo withdrawn even from tho resourco fleot. Programme Cut. The secretary In his recommendation recommenda-tion cut this building programme down to two battleships, eight destroyers, de-stroyers, three submarines and somo other auxiliaries. Congress is now considering this programme. The secretary's sec-retary's estimate for tho whole navy is about $144,000,000. This is a largo sum. but it la less than $1 50 for each Inhabitant, It is less cost to each person than the increase of n few cents in the price of grain would be. It Is about io per cent of the Internal revonuo tax on spirits and tobacco. About a year ago the first lord of the British admiralty, Winston Churchill, a grandson of our American Ameri-can Mr. Jerome, who was of New York, proposed lo stop building battleships bat-tleships for a year a naval holiday, as' it was called. This would bo very good for England, as her navy is larger than any other nation's. Germany Ger-many has not agreed to It, but is going on with her building programme to suit her needs. Germany would probably givo the same answer to us If we proposed a naval holiday to her. Wo cannot afford to stop building build-ing battleships if Germany and other nations keep on. In addition to the building programme, pro-gramme, other legislation has been proposed, and is needed, such as a council of defense, to consist of the president of the United States, tho secretaries of state, war and nnvv. tho chairmen of tho Fenate and ' house committees on foreign affairs, appropriations, appro-priations, war and navy, presidents of war and naval colleges, chief of staff of tho army and a naval ofl-cer, ofl-cer, four executives, eight legislators, four exports, sixteen in all. Also legislation as to ncrsonnel. which 1b much needed. Navy in the Past. From the first of our colonial days. . especially in. Now Kngland. the demands de-mands of tho life made travel and traffic by water a necessity, nnd tho arts of building and handling vessels were among the first pursued bv our forefathers, and our vessels of "commerce "com-merce soon began to appear In tho ports of the world. Our merchant marine reached Its zenith In 1S50-1SGO. when about every other vessel met at sea bore the American flag. In the early days, nearly all merchant vessels went armed; then nearly all of our lmporta and exports wore carried by our own vessels. 'Now wo pay million a vear In freight to foreigners, mostly English Eng-lish and German. One of the first things Washington Washing-ton did after assuming command at Cambridge soon after the battle of Bunkor Hill, was to get out letters of marque for boats manned bv New England eailors. They soon captured Borne British transports laden with much needed ammunition and stores. John Paul Jones ndvocated a navy. Finally the continental congress authorized tho building of thirteen men-of-war (one for each colony), and authorized many letters of marque. John Paul Jones was commissioned com-missioned a lieutenant In December, 1775. and was the first offlcor to receive re-ceive his commission In anv navy. Captain Esek Hopkins: was the first commander-in-chief. Dut Adams ami Franklin wero the rJ founders of our navy. It was stated by the late Senator Hoar thnt the peace at the end of our Revolutionary war was wrung from the British by tlit rise in marino Insurance; It was us high as 22 per cent. This whs caused by Paul Jones and others. War of 1S12. After ths Revolution we had no navy until the commercial war with France in 1797. when congrcat, authorized au-thorized tho building of fc!x frigates, among them the Constitution and Constellation, whlrh are in exixtnnce today. Th war of 1S12 with Graat Britain would nave been prevented if. In tho decade bforc. wo had built twenty ships of the line. Fifty more year aftef that war we were pylnr yearly $2,200,000 In pensions caused by that war. After the war of 1312. although our merchant marine Increased by leaps nnd bounds, our navy was neglectod. Tt was so smalt, ani what littlo there was wax so scattered, thnt Mr. Lincoln Lin-coln could not relieve Fort Sumptcr. While. I do not think the civil war could havo bn prevented, I do believe be-lieve that if wc had had an adequato nsvy In 154$ ami 1M1 that war could have been harterwd to stx months by promptly closing the southern ports. In 189S. the war with Spain lasted mly six months, on account of tho naval victories at Manila, and Santiago. San-tiago. I believe we .should have a navy strong enough to prevent any military mili-tary patlon from attacking us. That means wo fhoukl have a navy stronger and better than any nation except England. We were until recently re-cently No. 2 In naval strength; now we aro No. 3 and nre going down fast. It is not at all probable that wq will havo a war with England. Tho camo cannot bo said of Germany, France or Japan. dn 1S91, when cur m' nan ( m- paratlvely small, we came near going to war with Chile. At that time wo were In a position to bo attacked by at least eight or ten nations. Now wo am In no danger dan-ger of having a war with more than four or five nations. If tho mlstakon pcaco advocates, und tho Gmall or no-navy men huve their way for four or five years, our great big, ncn country will bo lluble to bo attacked and humiliated by at least six to eight nations. , , Battleships cannot bo Improvised. Tt takes at least two and a half years or more to build and equip a battleship battle-ship and get ready for action. It Is tho duty of the naval gonoral board, through tho secretary of the naw. to keep tho president informed of tho needs of the navy. It la ono of the duties of tho president to keep tho congress, and through them tho people, informed of the needs of tho countrv in these matters. If tho people, when they nro informed, in-formed, do not wlHh nn adequate navy and we should havo an adequato ade-quato navy, or practically none then, in caso of disaster and humiliation to our country, wo will know where tho blarno belongs. If, when Informed of tho needs of the country, tho people wish It, and for any reason congress falls to provldo tho means to keep up tho nnvy. the fault la with the congress. The executive, officers, of-ficers, the president, tho socrctnry, tho naval officers and the ship builders build-ers mav bo depended on to build and maintain an adequate navy if tho money Is voted. Can Command Sea. And the navy muy bo depended on, If tho means are given, to hold command com-mand of the sea ugainst any military nation that may attack uh, until wo can raise, equip and drill nn army largo enough to whip anv forco that might bo landing on our shores. During Dur-ing our civil war it took about two years, or until about tho time of the battle of Gettysburg, to make veterans vet-erans of tho soldiers on both sides. I think now tho army could bo raised and made Into an efficient fighting machine in a year or a year and a half, but somo army mon think It would take longer. In our navy now there are, including includ-ing 10.000 marines, about G5.000 men. They are voung, vigorous men, about 9S per cent of them American cltlzons, about 90 per cent nutlvo born. They are kept busy. Thoy aro taught various vari-ous trades, in addition to learning how to light for their country. Those who do not re-onllst. and return to civil life, arc better citizens from having passed four years In tho navy. The men aro well treated by tho officers, offi-cers, but they arc not coddled. Tho secrotary of tho navy has recently Issued Is-sued orders giving more time to instructing in-structing the men. but '.lelplng enlisted enlist-ed men. who wish to study and Improve Im-prove themsolvos. Is no new thing to naval officers. Tn accordance with a law passed a dozen years ago. as many a8 twclvo enlisted men may become commissioned commis-sioned officers, if thoy pass the examination. exam-ination. There are about thirty-throe of thorn in the navy now, two of them commanding ships. I practically ordered or-dered one of theso officers to tako the examination when I was a captain. cap-tain. Vrecland and Sutherland, noxt In rank to Admiral Dewey now, were enlisted men. Battleship "Utah." Among the best of our largest battleships bat-tleships is the Utah. When I found I was coming here to make this talk. I wrote to Captain Benson, tho Utah's first captain, nnd asked him to toll me about the Utah Benson was tho captain 1 selected to be my chief of staff when I was commandor-ln-chief of tho Pacific fleet. Ho Is one of tho very best captains wo have. I will read you what Captain Bon-son Bon-son wrote me concerning tho Utah: "The Utah, as you know, was built at the Now York Ship Building company's com-pany's plant at Soutli Camden. N. J., Just across tho Delawaro rlvor from Phllacdlphla. She la 521 foot long and, ns I remember. SSI feet beam, with a mean draft of about twenty-eight foot six inches. I havo known her to draw thirty feet. She carries ten twelvo-inch twelvo-inch B. L. R. .45-ca.llbor rifles and sixteen .51-callbcr B. L. R. for torpedo tor-pedo defense. Sho also has two submerged sub-merged torpedo tubes. "Tho Utah Is heavily armored for practically tho entlro length and from below the water lino to tho edgo of tho main deck. Sho Is fitted with Parson's Par-son's turbines, capablo of driving tho ship at twenty-two knots extreme speed. Sho carrlos 2500 tons of coal and -100 tons of fuel oil. She is manned by a crewof SS8 men nnd sixty officers. of-ficers. "The Utah was commissioned at this yard, August 31, 1911, and in flvo and one-half working days had taken on board all stores, coal and oil and left for New York. The captain rc- ae,ved and good luck follmv.i I took her ?hu time I had command, kookwood. into ncAriv Bvcry Port Wim no tl)i. Me., to Galveston. 1 "Nl3inv,'lrins H first battlofhlp lo b r!n.Bnd she nlon. During m ' (ler on steamed about p0mts In the alone and many '""'rtad out. uso of .Me ; oil wen. rllcc phe led "In tho. first nfef "Ilvldim! Hcores, ,h enUra noet n W mov. steaming nt l",0,,' ,ui twenty ing target sixty feet jo"11" nls dia. feet high m.rB ".ViilJi t ha targets on taut. She JcmollsUed the tor.. tho third (SL.eU-c-lnch puns recall It. of lno .cruise "in tho second car ui the Utah led the navy In ateanfing competition J'SSM eofiS efficiency. At t wn" tho latest missioned tjjo JJtah flhsiand one handsomest sliver service of ei Fel H th?n,"l VtT? st two-thirds of ?. 'flO OuTwhicn X,HW -Cn" trAM affi ffifj wish to repeat, an ndequnj o nn . J l he very best Insurance . we ,uJ f0.pSr il Nearlv "ll H 'costs goes . BKfctho 'of the worltmen it The officers and men as a who e are sober" industrious patrio c citizens. citi-zens. I hope you will take an intet est In tho navy and wilt aid in overy way you can to keep it up. ou can help ty to-lng to have your reprcscn- ta lives vote monov to wH quate navy. Come to thaUM see your uhlps whea through the -canal next ruTH |
