Show PEACE AND BATTLESHIPS The Tho Philadelphia Loo Ledger er comments on the fact that the president was cheered in his speech at the laying of the cornerstone corner cornerstone stone of tho the temple templo of peace when he pleaded for a n strong navy nav- This it thinks is proof that the practical has a stronger hold than the UlA theoretical and amI that also there is a belief in the old say sav tv ing a disarmed peace is weak It h thinks thinh-s moreover that there thero was no iu in- congruity in cheering this sentiment while whilo laying a corner stone stono in in a temple of P peace for wo we are ro yet far from being able to disprove the dictum of Tacitus that tho the peace of nations cannot be secured sc se cured without arms nor arms without pay nor pay without taxes The Ledger continues That the world at ot the tho bc beginning of the he hc twentieth century has bas formed high high- pr er fr ideals is is unquestionably true truo but it is isor or very far from the realization of its dreams of universal al peace Militarism is a factor to be reckoned with with- the tho advice Mice to 10 the peacefully inclined amen amon among the powers to C keep their powder dry dry is as sound as s when hen it was ori originally given And AnI tho the nation which would be bo secure from froni aggression must bo ho pr pro pre pared to resist aggression t Let the tho educational educational ed cd- ed- ed work of the bureaus of inter inter- trade ami anil of tho the palaces of p ni ace acc bo lo utilized to their full extent but butin in the thA meantime tho the practical aC agen IJ cies ales of defense are arc not to be forgotten forgot forgot- ten j |