An Expanding Navy

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 17, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 29.

An Expanding Navy.

In 1883, hardly twenty-five years ago, the appropriation for the United States Navy was not quite fifteen million dollars a year. The appropriation at the present time is one hundred five million dollars, or an annual expenditure that is sevenfold greater than it was a quarter of a century ago. About a billion and a quarter of dollars have been expended on naval equipment since the foundation of the "new navy" in Mr. Cleveland's administration, and a good deal of this expenditure is represented by scrap-iron at the present time. For the progress in instruments of destruction and death has been so great that it has been necessary to keep turning into the junk heap the up-to-date equipment of yesterday to make place for the more highly improved armaments of to-day, or else be left wholly behind in the furious madness of preparing for some conflict that it is thought may arise.

There is indeed a conflict coming on hastily, and it is to be the last battle of earth's history. The prophecies of the Bible make it plain what these developments signify. Have you studied these prophecies, and do you know what they mean? There is no necessity for being left in doubt and uncertainty. The Guide Book gives perfectly definite information, and it is ours for the effort of studying this Book.