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Show ; THE MIGHTY LITTLE SUBMARINE. HI The mighty little submarine, an American invention, ' at is holding practically powerless the greatest sea l Power of the world today, will yet protect America from , K.1011 from without according to Senator Smith of ' Michigan, who recently made this significant statement . in the U. S. Senate: M j The greatest sea power in the world lies dormant 1 i and inactive today because she can not get at her H . enemy, forsooth, on account of this little weapon B so much despised a few years ago. 1 f "We have decried in this chamber, over and over ' , the submarine. We have denounced it upon both P',; Sldcs- We Jmye denounced it as an inhuman wea- Pn uszd to the detriment of mankind; but I pro- f ! Pnef.y that, the time may come when that little in- , vention, which sprang like magic from the brain of an American, may protect our country from invas- I . i f ro,m without. One hundred and fifty million ! , .d0"ars. worth of submarines would make it abso-H abso-H lutely impossible for a foreign foe to land trans- , ; P.01'4? of soldiers upon our coasts, and I am not ' , finding any fault with it. I saw it put to its practi- 8 , Faltest the first time it appeared in the river and H I in Uiespoak bay, and I went down in one of the first 1 . ones evei' perfected; but we haymen, whose iudg- 1 i ment was negligible, were brushed aside, anil the H experts determined that that was not a matter to M be reckoned with at all. |