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Show power sufficient to make it troublesome for any other power or combination of powers to enforce 'that claim.' " We do not need any larger army, just large enough for a nucleus around which a strong army could be gathered and trained, but on the sea is where the fighting would come, and so long as the United States cannot make a masterful showing on the water, so long there will be an incentive for outside out-side powers to attack us. All south Brazil, all Argentina Ar-gentina and north and west Mexico are comparative- ly unsettled, while there are a great many millions of people in Europe that want homes, and when Japan gets Manchuria secure, and her trade relations rela-tions with China are established, she will then want more land. We ought to have more railroads in South America. We ought to have regular lines of steamers running to both coasts, and behind the steamers there ought to be a navy sufficiently strong to be a proper notice to all foreign powers that the United States is not a good country to try to coerce, j BUILD A BIG UNITED STATES NAVY. Gen. Ainsworth has filed a report in Washington which shows that the country has 13.000.000 men available for military duty. That is a good showing for the land, but there J never will be any fighting on our shores, unless near gome of our seaports. There is no trouble about the men to fight, but the fighting will come on the sea, and there is where our country is not nearly so 6trong as it ought to he. Looking at the forecast a man would naturally make, it would be that our first trouble will come, probably, through the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine. It would be easy for a European power to make an alliance with Japan and determine that there ia a great deal of land in Mexico and South America which is not being properly tilled, and that they would be good places for colonies, and that the principle which the United States knows as the Monroe doctrine ought to be put down. That would Jppt tjie. United &ateg in a fix, unless ghe had & naval i v 9 v |