Show WISE ADMIRAL EVANS When asked by a n newspaper correspondent correspondent corre what the arrival anival of the fleet fleetin in tho the Pacific means Admiral Evans Rans r replied 1 The gr greatest inter interest st of the United States today todar is in tho the Pacific coast Tho coming corning of the tho fl fleet et to th this s coast has bas not only demonstrated to the world that we have ha 16 battleships which c can n be brought together for a along along along long cruise at a n. moments moment's notice but hut it has called the att attention of or the tho people people peo pee pie of our country to the fact that we e have a 3 Pacific coast as well as an Atlantic coast a and d that it will be he defended defended de de- de fended just as much as every inch of lan land around New York and that our interests In the Pacific are today hotter bet hot ter ed than tho the Atlantic This is the short road to the countries countries coun coun- tri tries s of the Far East where the great commercial d development is to be he made V With th development will come war but it will be bo a commercial war ar fought with brains and anti dollars and amI not with guns It gratifies us to recall that The Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican has bas tried to express in sentences sentences sentences sen sen- of or like liko excellence the very same sentiment It means a great deal to tho the nation It m means ans more to the Pacific c coast st st. And Andl sharing in that benefit it m means ans a great deal dealto to Utah Hero is the region of ot wonderful natural resources re re- re- re sources of sources of iron an and coal and oil all and stone stono and man many precious minerals The Pacific coast will build because of or ortho tho advanced anc d national opinion of the coasts coast's importance Business with tb the Asiatic world will increase It means meana bigger cities down there below the mountains It means increased increase trade across tho the Pacific And all that means tho the enlarged demand for the tho Yer very materials in which Utah is rich In which Utah is richer than any other state or region in the world Wise Admiral Evans E knows what it means to the tho coast and to the tho nation and to the world The Tho advantage to our state is a a. logical sequence of or the i benefit he foresees |