PREPARE WAR by Springfield Republican

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 29.

PREPARE WAR.

By Springfield Republican

How many battle-ships will eventually satisfy the navy? was the question recently put to a naval officer by the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post. "Seventy," was the answer, and the necessary disposition of 72 battle-ships was detailed as 16 on the Atlantic Coast, 24 on the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, 16 on the Pacific Coast, and 16 in the Philippines. Seventy battle-ships would cost at prevailing figures about 550,000,000, more, rather than less. It is interesting to note that before we went a-world-powering, a naval board laid down a comprehensive plan of our desirable naval strength, and placed our needs at just 10 battle-ships. Times have changed since then, and the contrast is striking.—Springfield Republican.