Show THE BIG FLEET kansas city times perhaps it Is the american familiarity with big undertakings der takings that makes the sailing or the great atlantic fleet to the pacific an object of more interested wonder to europe than ito america but not the roost pardonable spirit of national self confluence hides the fact that this Is a great big thine intense in its dramatic interest and both emblematic and prophetic of this count rys manifest destiny the business capacity of the amort can people has gotten into their government at least into the executive branch of ii alij tae assembling of this fleet its preparation coaling and the enlistment for it and all other incidents testify to the efficiency to say nothing or the resources of the big ic public this greatest fleet ever assembled for business for business of peace but still business since uie almaria has occasioned practically no jingoism in tho country responsible for 1 the war talk has coad from surope this of the Ajner ican people is alt themore the more remarkable ina conn try of tree talk and free writing aal on the ere of a political canvass cheni almost any pretext might have served for misinterpretations that the united states is the second naval power of the world developed almost aa an unsuspected tact to most of its people and still this too was accepted as an ordinary thing and gave no text for boasting in a provocative boue the sailing of the fleet as a practice cruise or as a permanent adjunct to our life an fn tho pacific ordinates coordinates co with a greater commerce a greater potency in world affairs than has yet dawned upon us aad in all theao several reflections there Is not a call to vain glory or su pern cial exaltation but rather for a patriotic and prideful recognition that with the early years of the twentieth century this vast peoples domain Is swinging into its larger destiny and encountering new missions new perils new responsibilities bili ties with a spirit that prophesies equitable mastery |