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Show jj Edwin Donby was only coven hours as Sceretar.v flH; of (b nay when ho Bald: '! wnnt a fighting navy, u flBJ ' 1 navy piepared for any contingency, a navy as largo BBB. ;' ' nfi that of any other country In the world." Bflfljj Theodore Roosevelt had not boon assistant scero- H, ?tary of the navy very lone when he said: "Wo aic faced by a critical period and alt of us flBflj must make mi oui minds to urcept certain rcsponslbll- Bflflj' lties and do certain things. There are people who, Bflflji for ono reason or another, are talking against tin H navy, raying tho country Bhould disarm. Some aro H! perfectly sincere pacifists, name aro perfectly sincere H! ' fools, and, Incidentally, they aro tho Mine thing." H, ' Secretin)- Weeks disagreed with Secretary Dcnby Bflflji i . nnd declared that our navy should only bo as largo as BflBJ -any country with which wo might be engaged In waiv BBHJI Piealdent Hnrdlng has declated lor a government aaaa i . by conmiltution, a govQrnmf-nt of the pcoplo, by the " aaaVi flflflj' " pcoplo nnd fui the people, nnd not u government of Wm . t''o president, bj the president and for tho 'president. ' 1 -.-"" rne discussion Ib on nnJ from hj Piesldent'a olllclal BBHw family It will sptead throughout the country, and BBBYi I during tho next administration the desires or the flfll pepoln may be expected to be pii Into law and action. fll ' Naies are needed because neighbors cannot bu BIS' . trusted, and just as lon,' as neighbors cannot be trust- HPl ed just so Iuur will navies bo needed. Such nelgh- BBBfl, born may not bu naturally bad, but oftlmes they bc- flfll conic overburdened with Imperialistic tendencies and HHb other bad habits that make thwn dangerous. flflfl Under existing conditions the United States must flflfl maintain In our opinion a navy "prepared for any con BH tlngcncy" as Scctctary Dcnby Fays. And )iiBt so long us ollr neighbors Continue to bo expansionists, annc-S- flflfl i ntlonlsts, just so Ions as they love power at the ex- flflfl pense of their neighbors, a pacifist Is just what J Theodoio Roopoelt sas hu Is, nnd the sooner he be- I " conies aware of It the better It will be- for the country. flHHB1 |