Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-03-25 | Page 4 | What the President Might Do

' a tnire on warship construction after say 1913 for fifteen year and suggest ' that an agreement to that effect might be spread on the records of The Hague tribunal f A battleship's ordinary life is twenty-live years; those completed by the -end of lOl.'l mould answer all purposes for the succeeding fifteen years; it would leave, all nations of the same relative strength on the ocean for those years; and ecu Id the money which is being spent now on warship' war-ship' construction be diverted for fifteen years into in-to the ehannela of peace, what triumphs might be wrought by it. In our country it .would reclaim sll the arid lands; drain all, the swamp lands; build a great merchant fleet; on shore make homes, and employment for thousands of families; on the sea make our flag familiar to the eyes of nations to which it is strange now; help to divert the thoughts of men from possible war; which would exalt mankind change the use of uncounted milt linns from creating things to destroy, to wideniug the sphere of the industries and the reign of peace. . . - . . ... x WHAT THE PRESIDENT MIGHT DO. Austm-llnncsry has voted to rxpnd $50,000,. 000 during thf next six years in build ins; warships . halUeKhips, cruisers, lorpe1o boats, tde. France haa provided for the laying down this year ten bat-. bat-. tletihipst, eai-h of 2'J..r)(10 tons. Turkey has oon-. oon-. trailed with the Armstrongs (English) for the immediate im-mediate const met ion of two first class battleships. Great Britain's admiralty recommend the build-in build-in K of five battleships. Oermsny is btiilding two' or three; exinptrena authorized tba building of two monsters at once in onr country; Japan always has at least two under construction. China ia pro. paring to build two first c&sa fiirhtinir ships; two or three arc under construction for Smith American Ameri-can states; Russia is quietly creatine a new navy; Italy is hopini? to soon build "a torpedo battleship battle-ship which will mHke the wry best in other notions no-tions second class by comparison; and so it rocs." Karl Orcy in the commons the other day expressed ex-pressed the wish that President Taft would propose arbitrstion for the settlement of differences between be-tween nut ions. It wss a jrood idea ;. treaties be-tni be-tni i-n nations su'reeing to thst principle would be ' . in advance on the way to peace; but ' I" a kI'.II greater 'stroke to prvpoKeJi