Unique in the Annals of the Navy
“Unique in the Annals of the Navy.”—Says the San Francisco Chronicle, the ambulance ship comes now to carry the ministering succor of the Red Cross upon a blood-stained sea. Would that men’s hearts might so change that no such vessels would ever be needed. But with the great object lesson before us, of the destructive energy of “high explosives” in the wrecking of the Maine, and the consequent awful disaster to human life, let us say, Speed on the ambulance ship. It is easy to see how men could become interested in building and operating an ambulance ship. But why do not their hearts turn with horror and disgust from the thought of building the awful implements of modern warfare with which to slaughter their fellow-men?