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DECEMBER, 1915
The Commoner
not require a warship in the harbor.
The protection of the harbor itself
should be sufficient by forts, mines,
and submarines without the aid of
tho fleet."
So much for Admiral Fletcher.
Read tho questions put to and tho
answers of Admiral Fiske, another
of our highest naval authorities:
"Mr. Gray. What would you say,
without having any navy at all at the
mouth of the Panama canal, would
it be possible with those guns mount
ed there with longer range than the
guns on the ships, and with the mines
and the submarines, to prevent a hos
tile fleet coming into the canal, with
out any ships of the navy there to
defend it?
"The Chairman. They would not
try that.
"Admiral Fiske. No; they would
go to some other place to land and
make the attack.
"Mr. Gray. But would it be pos
sible, with those defenses I have
spoken of, for a hostile fleet to enter
the canal?
"Admiral Fiske. I think not.
"Mr. Gray You say we could de
fend the canal without any part of
our fleet at all, as against the ap
proach of a hostile fleet? Would you
say that?
"Admiral Fiske. Yes, sir; I should
say that." - '
Here we' hav'a the testimony, not
of a magazine writer, but of two
great AmeHcari naval authorities that
mines, submarines and land guris
could so nearly perfectly protect a
particular, spot, (the Panama canal)
that if no American dreadnaught
were near, it, no; navy would dare ap
proach it.
Get that fact in your mind.
Do not confuse it with the addi
tional statement that each of them
made that the attacking force would
go somewhere- klse and try to enter
by the back door.
Get the fact in your mind that
where mines and submarines are bat
tleships even of th'e biggest sort will
not go.
Then, suppose that instead of pro
tecting with mines and submarines
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BRfTf luavinB everything elao
safe for the approach of battleships
that wo were to protect with mines
ana submarines every part of our
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Mind you, every part of our coast
can not be landed upon. Some of it
is too rocky. Suppose wo anchor
mines that could be exploded from
shore at every place on our coasts
where an enemy could land and had
submarine bases so distributed that
a great number of such craft rmiifi
upon short notice bo concentrated at
any point of danger. Suppose every
possible landing place on our coasts
were as well protected as the en
trances of the Panama canal could
be protected. Suppose we had little
or no floating navy, but an enormous
submerged power. Should we be in
danger of attack? Would our defenses
be a menace to any other nation and
thus cause it to bankrupt itself to
become "prepared." If another nation
were to sink near it own shores
twice as many mines as wo might
have, would the foreign mines render
our mines less effective for defense?
Of course, our munitions patriots
will reply that it would cost an awful
lot of money to build enough mines
and submarines to make every part
of our coast a3 nearly impregnable
as mines and submarines could make
them.
These gentlemen do not seem to
consider mat meir piau 01 uuuiijul
itive preparedness costs anything. In
the last fifteen years, our naval ap
propriations have amounted to more
than one billion, six hundred and
twenty-nine millions of dollars, and
according to 'the dreadnaught gentle-
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must "prepare!" Look at the fig
ures: Amount of in
Years Appropriation crease, Navy
1900 .$65,140,910.67 $17,140,699.00
1901 78,101,791.00 25,400,000.00
1902 . 78,856,363.13 22,703,010.00
1903 . 81,876,791.43 25,925,632.00
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1905 .100,336,679.94 42,255,833.00
1906 ,10,091,670.27 33,475,829.00
1907 . 98,958,507.50 23,713,915.00
1908 .122,663,885.47 30,307,962.00
1909 .136,935,199.05 38,819.595.00
1910 .131,350,854.38 33,770,346.00
1911 .126,478,388.24 26,005,547.67
1912 .123,225,007.76 20,569,373.48
1913 .140,800,643.52 35,325,695.00
1914 .144,868,716.61 41,091,734.00
If the American people are fools
they will give ear to the munitions
patriots and plunge this nation into
the gigantic folly of "preparedness.
The munitions gentlemen are simply
trying to do business at the expense
of the public. They have enlarged
their factories to fill European war
orders and want to keep them busy
when European orders stop. Accord
ing to published reports, the du Pont
Powder company which, at tho begin
ning of the war, had but one plant
Sow has hree; Schwab has built
three additional factories for the
ma7 ifacture of shrapnel; the Atlas
Powder company has enormously
fncTeased its facilities and Bridgeport
has become tho "American Essen.
An exporter of shrapnel told me
one ev ning last summer that he was
selling for $16 a shell that cost him
but $2 to manufacture-and had or
ders for all he could make.
Do you wonder that these gentle
men want us to be "prepared"?
Tint when they clamor for battle-
w instead of mines can you be-
5? ffit are thinking only of
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nitions of war only by tho govern
ment itself.
Stand for mines and submarines as
tho best defensive naval armament.
Rvbuke, at every opportunity, tho
munitions patriots and tho dread
naughtcrs who seem to caro not what
happens to you, so long as they "get
theirs."
Express these sentiments at every
opportunity. Let the President, your
senators and members of tho house
of "presentatives know where you
stand. A respectful letter to each of
these would be thoughtfully read
and remembered. Politicians always
have their cars to tho ground. Give
them something to listen to.
.AXOTIlEIt CA8K OF PREPARED
NEgH
A Washington reader writes: "A
Seattle man last week was awakened -
in tho night by a notso in an adjoin-,
ing room. Thinking it was a burglar,
ho sang out 'Who's there?' Getting
no .ponno ho fired and killed hit
six-year-old daughter, who was walk
ing in her sloop. Tho daily paper re
porting tho incident was moved to
remark, 'We can not help thinking
this sad accident would not have
happened if there had not been a re
volver in the house.' Just another
ca80 of 'preparedness with tho al
most Inevltablo result."
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