Show We e Told o You So o It is said that President Wilson Vilson favors building three dread- dread na a n year and the smaller maller ships to keep the harmony so for to fo r s ak of the fleets perfect We Ve told you so When the Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- were fighting in congress so 50 bitterly all appropriations for more ships THE TELEGRAM l recalled the fact that it was the s same me way just prior to Mr 1 Cleveland's first election Secret Secretary ry of the thc Navy Chandler by the hardest kind of work ork could only get appropriations for four little ships and the dispatch boat boal Dol Dol- phin But when Mr 1 Whitney became secretary of the navy he first financially broke the pocket and with it the heart of John I Roach by refusing to pay the thc bills as they came due on the three little cruisers then under raider construction tried his best to have the Dolphin condemned then sent to England i for or battleship plans from one of them when sufficiently changed to make sure she would not sink when launched built the old Texas which always had nd a list the Maine l and ad others Congress freely appropriated all an the needed funds and his friends now claim that he and Secretary Sec Sec- retal Herbert who came four years later were the real fathers father 8 of the modern navy We suspect that it is up the sleeves of th the e president Secretary Daniels Daniela and the majority in congress to repeat repeat repeat re re- peat that history We Ve really hope that hat it is for we all want a navy nary sufficiently powerful to command the peace All the same ae e we told you so |