| Show PERKINS ARGUES UES fOR GREAT NAVY Effect of ci Expansive Policy on La Labor Labor Labor bor Conditions a Sufficient dent Warrant PROTECTS OUR INTERESTS ll III t la Equal to All An Enter 1 Idl H LI Achieve Achievement ment Wilt III In Nn aL Affairs Feb 21 Senator Per of oC toty spoke In ji the tho ot of expenditures 1 In Justification fur tor the thC of ot tho the American navy and ana of at tho the polio policy of ot sending thu tho 1 iL t Into tho t Pacific ocean Ho lie reviewed tho the achievement of ot o tile the navy and ile lle dared cI red that thit It was wae tho the most moet popular ot of tho Ihu government When tho tID Sleet fleet now on HB Its way to tonn nn Francisco Is 1 Joined by the other effective vessels on the tho Pacific he ha haIM heald IM ald l We 11 lu 11 havo a II fleet Heet of ot 18 IS lint bat bIS eight armored cruisers 13 i pro crul rs 13 destroyers detroyer lve tor and two tw submarines The Tho battleships and cruisers alone alono agre agreate rate gate tone tons while the tho other naval power Ower on or the Pacific Japan lias only tons Ions In all nil classes of or The Tha Il et will bo be b o amply amilly able to pro our Interests In that ocean VItA RECORD UNBROKEN Attention was called to the unbroken record rl ord of ot bra van which the tha navy pre pro jents int from Ha Its earliest beginning and andon on the tho the Pacific those who man the vessels will have the tho examples of ot Com Corn Commodore Commodore Sloat Admiral KImberly and Admiral Dewoy for or Inspiration The Tho senator sketched the growth of at the new navy from to the present day when tile the United States has hM become tho sec eec second secund ond und sea sen power In tho the world surpassing Franco France by a small margin In the tha strength of ot our fighting force and ona far outstripping Germany Russia Rusala and Ja Japan Japan Japan pan And nd this thia lead ho said eald the tho United States Is easily able ablo to maintain By Dy authorizing only two more moro battleships of o the tho big gun typo type this title nation would sill tn lead France by tons in sea aea force LESSONS OF WARS W was waa made nade to the tho change chango In th Ih character of which ro re suIted from the tha lessons of the tha naval en engagements during the tho nr which taught the importance of big ships carrying big guns so BO that a greater weight of metal can con bo be 1 0 brought within a I shorter battle line Hence fleece nit all aUthe the naval powers are building ships carrying only rifles for offensive purposes and a comparatively few tow small guns for defense against tor 01 oot attacks Tho cost of or tho the vessels of ot tho now no noa ravy a built building or authorized Is while the tho total expenditures on CI account of naval establishment since I 1113 is 19 1 said Mr Perkins But this vast expenditure is not as ns may nay ho claimed by some unproductive The construction of or the ships of our navy gave such much stimulus to tho iron trall trade that moro more Iron mills wore ero established established better bettor material was wa produced prices s were lowered and iron and steel came caine Into jute general use In nil all kinds oC ot construction constriction go so that now wo we tire are the greatest Iron and steel manufacturers In the tha world EFFECT ON LABOR LABORIn In 1880 1580 thoro there were only wago wage earners rameN In tho the iron and anil steel Industry i of oC the country earning and I turning oat out products worth In 1905 there thero were wage earners earning cUlling and anti turning out pro products products ducts worth The average avera e wage Increased from too to OO The Tho average vage of at workmen in tho the Iron and tat steel Industries Ind will today more mOIa than thin w sty y the tho cost of or all the vessels of or our cur new now navy nn built building or nu flu am nail the tha value of the theIron theIron Iron and ami steel product for tor a n single year 11 pay tho the entire cost coat of or the naval nB val establishment since 1553 That the tho en given this industry by the th of or ships of at war wal had hod a I very or potent in bringing about this result cannot be bo doubted And AmI there thero is h hardly hanily an nn industry In tho the land that ha has baa not been benefited in a n similar may ay a The money m ney expended on the tho ships hip of or war was wall not therefore an economic loss los Judged by b a single Bingle trade alone Tie Re adopted the Tillman Tiliman res roe resolution authorizing tho the attorney general to prosecute the tho transportation com corn of ot Oregon that have received public lands lunds and aud have violated tho tl terms of ot the tho grant The senate adjourned at p 1 in iii until tomorrow when whon Senator ber of North Dakota will rend read Wash h farewell address |
