Show THE NEW NAVi hero is no question but that tho navy baa been Retting into u sadly decrepit condition con-dition and when placed in charge of tho present Secretary was little better than a collection of wrecks Secretary Whitney has however directed every possible effort to its improvement and hix administration has already wrought many changes for tho better i 1lans for Iho new steel cruiser authorized by Congress are now made labIle When it is complete it will bo equal to any vessel of tho kind cheat It will be modeled in I part after some of the latest products of the Spanish navy fully armored and provided with every contrivance for speedy and effective oha if lye autlonOnnrahen Herald I These are tire true premises and a fair deduction therefrom nnd fiintularlj enough will inane more weight with the reading public than columns of partisan abuse plied dally against the Admlnielri Lien by Republican journals line miM partisan journal in tIne land vvliu u editor edi-tor understands tho subject does not deny tire worthless condition of tine Nayy when turned over to this Democrats Demo-crats and that it is host to proceed caro I fully in tire costly matter of rehabilitation r rehabilita-tion Let a United States citizen enter 0 any largo port of Europe Asia or South America where war vessels coiifcrcgato and sea the vast superiority of all foreign fleets compared with his own countryH ubipt and know that this has been jubt tho Kama for the just twenty years and ho will feel very like condemning tire f policy 01 u part that made such a thing I pobslblo Now that tho initiative has been taken to ro build tho navy tire Republican Re-publican party are seeking to throw odium on tire Democrats because of the Hinall amount appropriated for the purpose pur-pose and because the did lnot Bee fit to completo six of the worst naval frauds over foisted on tire country coun-try by Republican lawmakers The ship above alluded to will be of tho highest high-est attainable speed ansi bo for nil naval purposes in a timo of peace superexcellent superexcel-lent Others will follow nnd in a few years our turvy will ogam bo able to cope with foreign Powers To understand the objection made in3 the Republicans to hits non appropriation of funds for completing com-pleting tho Monitors it must be borne In mind 1 that ono ten ton torpedo boat of any nation could sink all six of them In six minutes nnd that they never wcro goad for an tiling but harbor defense The confidence exhibited by tho people in tho Democratic part is proof of that parlys good work rend soon n new navy will add to the honors now crowding to its standard stand-ard |