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Show GREATEST NAVY. Secretary Daniel is authority for the t'ltement that "the. l'nited States will hao incomparably the greatest nny in the world. ' As the n.nnl strength of tlreat Britain nt the beginning of tin' ivur whs eiial to that of any two of the other ma ri I i mo pow er j, it e i'len t that this con nt ry will h-' com polled to cany out a very extensive prograuimc if IVeM-lent Wilson's SI. bonis dream is tt he fully realie'i. We tin not know what naval prog re, ha.s been made by (fenunnv iuce the beifin-fl'iiff beifin-fl'iiff of the uai, luit it is prohalde that tlte building of Miibinn fine lias been the chief iie en pa? ion nt the kaiser s jdiip-yaid, jdiip-yaid, for the (i-ruu'iis have little or no u e for luT ba 1 1 leshi ps anil eru iser an I never ill he able to eni;i;;e in h;;ttle upon the lii::h eas in a war in which the I'nilcd States ami iii.-at I'.iitiun are upon ihe opposing oe. l'nt hii'll.intl and Japan have been, and are, building more w a t -h i ps and w h ih we idiall no doubt outstrip the oriental cuuiitrv a a sea power, il will probably be i-.iuie lime hefoie we nre on an etpial fooling with our Hiiiiwh e u?in. Na ie a i e e pi n m v e to ma i u t ai n , how e er, and it may he thai nt the close of the war the l'nited Slates will bp the oulv eounlrv that tan afford (he outlav. |