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The Waste of Warships

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 9.

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The Waste of Warships

W. Bourke Cockran, in a speech before the Commercial Club in Chicago recently, re-asserted that "every dollar put into battle-ships is criminal waste. A battle-ship to be least costly must be idle. When it is in action it is adding cruelty and misery to expense." He believes that expenditures for army and naval armaments are pauperizing the nation, and would like to see more merchant ships and fewer war-ships.