Show S CANADA AND A NAVY It seems seem that in Canada parties are dividing i hI n whether the time Dominion shall have a local na navy oi or ori i ot Yh When n the tile threat came a year ear ago of a war between Germany ermany and Great Grent Britain almost all tit tim statesmen of Canada of-Canada Cnn da were anxious for a navy but the time scare has passed by We Ve really cannot see sec what Canada canada wants a anay Y na navy for unless it be on the west cost coast CO and amid then we suspect she had better hetter trust st to Great Britain She Site cannot at present have any war that will not involve great Britain and if she should separate from the mother country and become an independent ent power she would not have very cry much need for fora a n navy wJ And then again small again small osman navies do no not count for much an any aim more The great powers arc are ex exhausting exhausting ex- ex x- x themselves in building navies and the best that Canada Canad could do would be to provoke some hostile power to attack her and she is as a's safe from attack as ns Mexico is No power would think of f it unless it would be Japan and amid Japan is shrewd She does docs not not- wish not wish to use up her warships warships' and lur hr men of war men unless she can make an acquisition si- si tion of money 1 or or territory tha will will materially r help her er and were she site to storm alj all the ports of British Columbia it would be a barren victory because she would not get much and if she site tried invade the time interior the Canadians would we weir 11 her out in a week I |