The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 27, 1916, Image 3
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SIX MILLION mERS ARE fiET-
UNO MORE MONEY
ALL INDUSTRY AFFECTED
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Striking Increases Throughout Entire
Country Shows That Workingmen
Are Receiving Higher Wages Than
When Protective Tariff Flourished.
The entire army of American
labor is sharing in the nation's pros
perity.
Information gathered by the De
partment of Labor shows a pro
nounced trend upward in the wages
of the men who work with their
hands in every industry and gainful
occhpation.
In every state of the union the
full dinner pail is a reality; there
are no “bread, lines;” the calamity
howlers are put to rout.
Government experts are of the
opinion that the general average
wage increase In the last year will
approximate 12 per cent.
An examination of 1,486 reports
indicates $300,000,000 added to the
annual pay checks of approximately
5,700,000 workmen.
Tabulating Wage Increases.
Secretary of Labor Wilson has had
compiled the wage announcements
and reports appearing in such news
papers as came to the Department,
and has summarized the interesting
result. The period covered was from
July 1, 1915, to May 15, 1016. The
publications examined included 18
dailies. 20 monthly and semi-weekly
trade Journals, and 100 weeklies—in
all 138 publications.
About 3,000 wage Increase articles
were tabulated, which by careful
checking to eliminate duplications
netted 1,486 wage increases reported
in the 138 publications.
Of the L486 wage
tablishments affected as 2,x47.*^Oa
a similar basis, the total number of
establishments affected by the 1,416
wage increases would approximate
4,206 establishments.
.* Near HU Million Wage Earners.
Again, only 498 of the total !,•
416 wage Increase art 1 else gate the
number of wage earners receiving
the Increased pay. But these 498
reported a total of 1,901,888 wage
earners affected. On a similar basis,
the total number of wage earners
affected by the 1,486 wage increases
would reach 1.700,660.
The number of wage Increases re
ported by these 188 newspapers and
trade Journals represent, of course,
only a partial story. It the Oles of
l.ooo. Instead of 188 publications
had been consulted, a far more near
ly complete review of the labor Oeld
of the 40 states would have result
ed. It Is trae.~UTewlee. that hun
dreds of wage Increases are made
which do not get press publicity.
All American Industries Affected.
The rate of Increase ranges all the
way from I per cent to SO per cent:
from S cents to 60 cents per hour;
from 25 cents to 10.00 per day;
from |1 up to $25 per week.
Here are a few of the Interesting
cases, showing how general the wage
movement has been both as to terri
tory and occupation.
Five thousand Arisona miners and
smelters get a flat raise of 20 per
cent; while 4.000 get 88 cents in
crease per day. and 4,000 more up to
60 rents per hour.
California printers and bookblnd
ers get raises running from 12 to
125 per weak^ while metal workers,
foundry and machine shop operators,
and the building trades get increases
of 50 cents to 84 per day.
In Connecticut there were 35 wage
Increase reports in foundry and ma
chine shops alone, the rate of in?
crease being from 10'per cent to 25
per cent. One of these increases, of
15 per cent, affected 19 establish
ments employing 23,000 wages earn
ers, and another 30,000 men.
Eight Colorado cases increased 10
per cent the pay of 24,000 miners
and metal workers.
Various Increases in Illinois.
Illinois Increases reported to the
number of 85 Included bakers, build
ing trades, clothing, foundry and ma-
chine shops, laborers, printers and
bookbinders, railroads, street rail
ways, stock yards and packing plants,
teamsters and theatres, affecting
hundreds of establishments and thou
sands of wage earners. Three wage
increases in packing houses reached
75,000 men.
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Ken
tucky wage increases reached a broad
list of Industries as in Illinois; the
principal increases being 10 per cent
to 20 per cent, or |1 to |5 per week.
In Maine the wage gains were
'largely in paper mills and textiles,
one raise reaching 7,000 textile work
ers; though the building trades,
printers and longshoremen also got
theirs. , *
Bay State's Good Fortune.
Over 200 wage increases were not
ed in Massachusetts, embracing prac
tically every industrial occupation.
Two cases covered 97 building trade
establishments. There were about 50
cases affecting foundry and machine
shops; the number of wage earners
"being from 50 to 5,000, and the rate
of Increase being commonly 10 per
cent to 15 per cent. There were also
50 or more wage increases in cotton,
wool and other textile establishments.
One 10 per cent raise went to 50,000
textile workers, and 20 other.raises
of 5 per cent to 16 per cent affected
1,000 to 80,000 wage earners each.
Ita Michigan. Minnesota and Mis
souri, bakers, building trades, fonn
port two wage Increases reaching 20,-
000 workers In each case.
There are 130 wage increase re
ports for New Jersey, covering bak
ers, building trades, clothing, foun
dry and machine shops, Ip-on and
steel, miners, munitions, printers,
railroads, teamsters, textiles, and
common labor. Bakers got raises of
|1 to )2 per week; building trades,
40 cents to 60 cents per day.^JThere
were 16 foundry and machine shop
raises of 12 per cent to 30 per cent,
and nine texifie mill raises of 10 per
cent to 25 per cent.
New York Shares Prosperity.
Over 180 wage raises were listed
for New York. One clothing case
added 50 cents to $2.50 per week to
40?000 wage earners. Three build
ing-trade raises ran from 25 cents to
50 per day for 26,000 mechanics.
Fifty foundry and machine shop rais
es touched 400 to 3,000 men each,
and one common labor settlement
placed 10,600 men on a basis of $2
to $2.75 per day. There were seven
wage jumps for street railway oper
ators, and 15 for printers, in each
case affecting thousands of pay en
velopes.
It takes about 200 wage articles
to cover Ohio, and about the same for
Pennsylvania; and Ihe wage wave
water transportation raised wages in
Ohio, and two iron and steel raises
of 10 per cent each affected 60,000
men, while nine cases involving
thousands raised Ohio street railway
wages.
Oklahoma bakers, builders, print
ers and stonecutters got busy with
the pay envelope; and out in Oregon
the same industries plus railroads
and miscellaneous took wage liber
ties, in one case adding $2 per week
to 4,000 pickets.
Record of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania, which used to think
that high tariff was necessary to high
wages, gives 80 wage increase set
tlements in the iron and steel indus
tries and the foundry and machine
shops—38 of these wage increases
being from 10 per cent to 30 per
cent, and nine of them affecting 6,-
OOOto 24,000 men each—and all un
der a Democratic tariff law. Also,
without a tariff. Pennsylvania raised
the wages of coal miners as follows:
In two cases 30,000 each, unc case
49,000. UUS i:aS8 507U0O~an2 another
ITMOO.
Rhode Island presents 3 5 good
eases, la which textile workers take
the lead with an a verage of about
10 per cent wage Increase; Btt c
Involving 24,000 wage earners.
Mouth on Honor Roil.
Moet of the Southern states are
wise on the honor roll of Increased
wages; the big empire of Texas
showlag strong. Maryland and Went
Virginia make showings similar to
those of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin furnishes one case of
18,000 wage earners getting an In
crease of 10 per coat to 18 per coat.
Utah and Vermont, which endors
ed Taft and the Payne tariff, are
somewhat more modest la presenting
wage Increases under Democratic
aaspleeo. though Utah boasts one cat
where 8,000 miners were benefited.
Thea there are 38 wage reports oa
Interstate corporations, each as the
big stool companies and some of tho
tentiles. One textile raise affected
44 establishments and 86.000 hands.
One 10 per coat steel raise wont to
162.000 men, and another to 260,-
000.
Is creese Nrer 0300 OOO OOO.
By reason of the great variety of
ways In which wages have been rais
ed throughout the United Otat
sometimes by the day or week, and
again by hortsontal percentage or by
the piece—the Labor Department has
not attempted to strike an average
rate ef Increase.
It Is-quite probable that the aver
age raise throughout the United
States this year will approximate 12
per cent. But, to be conservative,
let us call It 10 per cent.
— The average annual wage will ap
proximate, say, $600 a year. This
would make $60 a year as the aver
age increase per hand. This increaso,
It has been shown, would certainly
affect 6,700,000 wage earners. But
apply this conservative estimate to
an army of even 5,000,000 wage
earners, and you have $300,000,000
as the volume of Increase in the pay
rolls of American labor during re
cent months, as approximately re
ported to the American press. Doubt
less this is only a small part of the
big story of this high-wage era, for
the tidal movement of good times for
American labor is still rolling up and
on. * »
DID GIUTDMGE
LATER NEWS FROM FLOODS
SHOWS ALARMIN0 LOSS
DEATH LIST REACHES 19
BRITISH ARE SEIZIN6
l). S. MAIL IN PACIFIC!
per cent Michigan raise hitting 14^
000, while la Miaeouri 81 per week
was added to 30.000 pay employees
at erne dip.
la Montana the befldlag trades get
a Jump ef II per day, and mlaan
tram 26 seats up U 86 Bar day.
Mew Hampshire textile mills re-
WILL NOT DRAFT MEN
War Department Issues Denial of
Widespread Report.
Published stories that use of
general draft was being considered
to fill the National Gurrrd ranks
were denied by the war department.
The following statement was issued
by the official press bureau:
"The statement that tho war de
partment is contemplating the draft
system to recruit the National Guard
is nonsense. Statements to that ef
fect are purely speculative and have
no basis in fact.”
Reports that National Guard units
ate being supplied poor and insuf
ficient food are not borno out in pre
liminary telegraphic reports received
from all tho department command
ers./ _ _
WANT TO GO TO BORDER
Many Bridges Destroyed—Railways
Suffer Heavily—Some Towns are
Still Cut Off and No Word of
Their Loss is Known—Cotton Mills
Damaged and Bridges are Wiped
Away
Flood waters thrsughout the
stricken districts of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee and Vir
ginia were receding Tuesday. Later
reports increased the death list to
19.
The property loss continues to
grow and when towns and counties
now cut off from communication are
heard from the first estimates of
from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000
damage probably will be increased.
Railroads apparently have suffer
ed far more tban wai at first real
ized.: Reports from Western North
Carolina are that some lines there
will have to be almast entirely re
built, while bridges wero carried
away at many points in U1 four
states and serious washouts and
landslides occurred along the roads.
Cotton mills in North and South
Carolina have been heavy sufferers
from the flood and thousands of
workers have been thrown out of
employment. In many Instances mills
will have to be entirely rebuilt and
it will be months before these are
put into operation
Reports of damage along tho Ca
tawba river in North Carolina con
tinue to come in and several cities
aloag that stream. Including Hickory
and Lenoir, still are cut off from
commuolcation. Great damage has
been done all along tho waterway
and tba same Is trna -Jong the Yad
kin.
In eantml South Carolina tka flood
waters did not ronch tho crests pre
dicted snd nil fears of more damage
had paaaad. That and the Piedmont
sections of tho state suffered heavily
however, la dassaga to mllU. rail
roads and crepe.
Ashovlllr Is getting to something
Ilka aormai. with gangs of workmen
busy robulldtsg plants and clearing
debris. Thera was limited electric
power and health actkorltlaa
taking stringent measures to prevent
any disease epidemic. Latest re
ports there made It certain that tba
Lake Tosaway dam had held against
the flood waters.
la Toasecsee tka flood waters wore
about stationary and wore expected
to begin falling later la tba day.
Great damage was dona to crepe,
railroads, mills and wareho
throughout tho flooded area la tba
•astern part of the state. Maay
towns and villages there ware yet to
report.
Conditions In southwest Virginia
ware rapidly approaching aorc.al
and work of repairing railway
bridges and tracks was prorecdmit
rapidly. Considerable damage to In
dustrial pleats sad trops In ti.ai
tloa ware reported in latest dis
patches.
Although damage to property ta
South Carolina Is reported to
heavy Interrupted commnnlcatlon
and transportation prevent anything
like an accurate estimate.
Highway and railway bridges
washed away, power plants under
water, railway tracks submerged
snd largo loss to llvectock, crops
snd farm property In tho lowlands
are some of tho toll recorded from
the flood.
Railway transportr.tlon In every
part of the state is severely crippled
and It will be several weeks before
anythli g like normal conditions are
restored.
Fears are fell for Lockhart mill
where the river has broken Its banks
and established a new channel. The
reported floating down Catawba
river of a, number of b;.les of cotton
leads rise to the supposition that
two large cotton mills at Bolaont,
N. C., have been damaged.
Chester reports that the stool
trestle of the Seaboa'-d crooning the.
Catawba rivor between Chester and
Waxhaw, the Southern railway
bridge over the Catawba between
Rock Hill ...d Fort Mill, and the
Carolina and Northwestern trootle
at Cliffs crossing the samo waterway
also are gone.
Thi.e is not a bridge of any kind
on the Catawba river. The Wateree,
which is tho Catawba bolow the
Great Falls, may get by without such
serious loss. The loss on tho Ca
tawba was caused principally by the
breaking of a dam in North Caro
lina.
The Southern railway bridges
north and east of Rock Hill and the
Seaboard bridge east of that city,
wero carried away by a sudden tor
rent caused by the giving way
part of the earth dam at the Ca
tawba river power plant between
Rock Hill and Fort Mill. Here tht
water «.te oat the sido of a hill.
With the washing away of :a sec
tion of the Seaboard’s t-estlc at Cam
den Tuesday afternoon the Catawba
Manning Writes War Department
Urging Early Movement.
Gov. Manning Tuesday took up
the matter of moving the South
Carolina Guards to the Mexican bor
der with the Washington govern
mentT
Letters, urging that an early move
ment be ordered, were addressed by
drymen and machinists, printers aif ypnn^-g ^ ‘ ■— 1 i
HMWBJ'^Nrpioyeea get ra/M*. one 10 war and the president. It was point
president,
ed out that a refusal to move the
troops will dampen their spirits. It
Is also urged that service on
border will arouse latereot la the
Guards.
No weed has hew received at
Cassp ttys oe la whea the Oea
win ha meeed. a. 4ft.*
Authorities at Manila Fine Steamer
$25,000 for Missing Packages.
Other Ships Bothered.
The British steamship Chinese
Prince has finally filed P|bond and
sailed from Manila Tuesday. The
amount of the bond, twenty-live
thousand dollars, covers the fine of
fifty thousand pesos, which the col
lector of the customs imposed when
it was discovered that two thousand
packages were missing from he-
cargo upon her arrival in Mani
from New York via Peking.
These packages had been confis
cated by the British authorities at
Peking because some of the con
signees had. It was reported, been
blacklisted by the British. After the
vessel’s departure court proceedings
were begun in connection with an
appeal mpde by her agents against
the payment of the fine. ,
The .Spanish vessel Elzagulrre,
which reported upon arrival a$ lUolo
on Sunday that the British authori
ties at Singapore had taken off five
hundred packages of «cargo bound
for Manila, reached Manila Tuesday.
Her officers report that they filed a
protest wlttt the Spanish consul at
Singapore, who in turn communi
cated thle protest to the American
consul, and that the latter declared
he was not authorized to accept the
protest.
The dead: Stuurt Doan, policeman;
also that the British seized one hun
dred and four sacks of Manila mail,
returning them to the vessel after
eight hours. The local postal au
thorities are unable to state at this
time whether any packages were
confiscated from the sacks.
This is the first report of Manila
mail being tampered with oe a
through voyage, although at Hong
Kong mall to and from Manila has
repeatedly been seized when trans
shipped there.
FOR COASTDEFENCEI
BATTLE CRUISERS WILL DO Tffi
WORK SAFELY
TO SINK
river, known farther along ita course
as the Watcree, lx sweeping nil be
fore It
Railroad officials stated Tuesday
that nothing short of a miracle could
save the Atlantic Coast Line trestle
near Eastover.
The flTst trestle carried away by
the Catawba was that on tho South
ern’s main line between Charlotte
And Atlanta, Tho river
wS %WXJ ■tB"YtirTg*~YtrgCOs«lo
Rock Hill
board
tn Ttpig^Yrr
Southern’s trestle botw
and Charlotte end th
trestle at Catawba Junction on the
line between Hamlet and Atlanta.
The pad rank ef the river kj
ried away the lee beard's tra
Camdea aad the Cues* Use’s
Is
PEARY ASKS TWO FLEETS
MUST BE EQUIPPED
National Guardsmen Not to be Rush
ed to Mexican Frontier.
Apartment commmders of Na
tional Guardsmen now mobilising
for service on the Mexican border,
have boon Instructed by the war de
partment to defer transportation to
ths frontlsr until the militiamen
have been thoroughly equipped end
organised. This order revokej n rul
ing Issued by the department whea
the Mexican situation was acute,
which waived certain requirements.
About twenty-five thousand msn are
affected.
The latest Information of tho de
partment Is that about one hundred
thousand National Guardsmen now
are at the border. With the fifty
thousand regulars there and five
thousand additional men called from
the reserves, officials estimate that
the American strength on border
service within a tew weeks will ha
ad squats to cope with aay present
emergency sad will maks unneces
sary the dlspotch of aay more
Guardsmen nntll they are completely
equipped and organised.
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Famous Roar Admiral, Chairman of
Aerial Coast Patrol Commission,
Writes New York Times, Urging
Construction of Sixteen Ships for
Atlantic and Pacific.
Until we have at least eight
thirty-five knot battle cruisers—
two divisions of four each, armed
with sixteen-inch guns—in the
Atlantic, aad an equal fleet in the
Pacific, our coasts and coastal
cities will not be safe from attack
and raid, almost at will, by the
swift battle cruiser divisions of a
hostile power, no matter how many
battle ships we may have.
Recent, occurrences on our south
ern border have awakehed the coun
try with a shock to the valuo of
aeroplanes and our utter deficiency
in that line. The inauguration of
hostilities by a first class naval power
will awaken us with a ruder and
thousand times more serious yhock
to the value of battle cruisers, and
our deficiency In them. If we are
caught with less than two divisions
In each ocean—sixteen ships in all
—of this Indispensable weapon for
safeguarding our coasts from con
tinuous harassment by tho enemy’s
battle cruiser divisions.
The House naval committee’ pro
vided for five battle crulaefs In this
year’s building program. The Sen
ate Naval Committee, it Is said on
good authority. Increased this pro
gram to six battle cruisers and two
hattu ahjpa I^tar on the news Of
the NoHFSea flj _
on four hnttlf
cruisers and foir battleships.
The battle ci nlser question for the
United States navy, as revised by the
Senate navel committee, has yet to
be ratified by the Senate as a whole,
and thea to be accepted by the
Houee. It teems permissible, there
fore, to note certain facte and Infer
ences tn rsgard to battle cruisers.
To aoasme from n single bottle in
which, from the exigencies of tfce
occasion, tks battle ernleers en both
sides bora tbs brant of the fight, and
consequently suffered the moet seri
ous losses, that the bettleehlp lo the
one end only fundamental element
ef the navy, and that the battle
cruiser Is merely a secondary or ter
tiary proposition, seems ss prama-
ture aa It wee la the early stages of
the protont struggle to assume that
the submarine woald supplant all
other forme of naval warfare.
The story of the recast Norm Bee
Allies Have Two,
to Rms Her Dowb.
Naval officers believe
tain and France have issued 1
tlons to their naval comma
close to Amerlmn waters not to !
the Deutschland get out of
sight after sho leaves the Uni
States. They believe r. decorOt
awaits the gunner who sends her
the bottom or the commander who
captures her.
The alUed naval officers. It !e
lleved, have received
already to follow the undersea
•cross the Atlantic and at leant two
British vessels, it was said, havo
been ordered to devote their en. . o
efforts to the destruction of the mer
chantman.
They will be used in no other smv
▼Ice, It was said, until tho Deutsch
land either is destroyed or her safe
return to Germany has been ro-
ported.
INDIANA POET DIES
James Whitcomb Riley Passes Away
Suddenly at His Home.
The body of James Whitcomb
Riley, the Indiana poet, who died
unexpectedly at his home In Indian
apolis, In., lay in state at the In
diana state capitol from three p. m.
until nine p. m. Monday. The hoars
were fixed especially with the view
of providing n time when the work
ing people and children might view
the body.
wifh twenty-two knots speeJ, even
though she carries twelve powerful
guns, would protect our Atlantic
Coast from a division of four thirty
to thirty-five knot buttle cruisers?
Would such a division of hostile
battle cruisers, choosing their own
time, kept informed ef the lotatlo.i
eT our ships by spltoe ashore, play
hide and seek with any number ef
our bettleshlpa, strike and raid nay
TTTw sr.-.xrriu M'nr 1
URGE WORK AGAINST BANDITS
Prean Approves Action ef
Carranza Autixorittos.
A message from Gen. Funston
Monday reported that Oea. Trevino
had sent many troops south with
ths Intention of occupying the Guer-
rero-Snn Barja-Snnta Rosalia Urn
against any possible northward ad
vance oi bandits. The dispatch add
ed that newspapers In Chihuahua
ware urging the necesJty of an ac
tive campaign against bandits “to
provent their reaching United States
forces and border.”
I
FIRST BALE IN GE0R 7 IA
Negro Farmer Raises Crop Abes
Again This Year.
Raised by Ned Sanders, a negro, [
of Pelham, Mitchell county, Ga. r the
first bale of the 1916 cotton crop!
arrived In Savannah Sunday. It was |
auctioned off In front of the cotton
exchange Monday morning. It is I
shipped from ThomasviUe, Ga„ to a
local cotton factor. A year ago the[
1915 first bale arrived and was sold
for eight and one-sixteenth cents aj
pound.
RETIRE TO MOUNTAINS
Vienna admits Retreat into Fast
nesses of Carpathians.
tinder the menace of a heavy Rus
sian assault, the Austrians in the Car
pathian region of southern Buko-
wina southeast of Tatarow, have
withdrawn toward the main ridge of
the Carpathians, the Vienna war of
fice officially announced Sunday.
SWAP FIRE ON THE BORDER
force ef the mama. Hiring a
number of ships tn so *oln|
causing equal damage to the s
It Is probable that bad the same
number of bettleehipe engaged an
equally superior fores tbs 1 oases
would have been Just ns great
One thing appears to be clear; bad
tbe British poBssessd no battle cruis
ers. hsd their first division been com
posed of battleships, the enemy might
not have been engaged at all; and
one thing Is entirely clear, that the
battle cruiser division accomplished
Its purpose. Intercepted and held tbe
German fleet nntll rmnrvso arrived,
which Inflicted serious damage, and
drove the German fleet to tbe shelter
of Its mine fields and harbors.
The hardest fighting fell to the
battle cruiser fleet.—Report of
. Admiral Jelllcod.
Had our battle cruisers not fol
lowed the enemy to the southward
the main fleets would never have
been in contact.—Report of Ad
miral Jelllcoe.
Being between the enemy and
his base, our situation was both
tactically and strategically good.—
Report of ’Vice Admiral Beatty,
Commanding BnttlO Cruiser Fleet.
In the present war, geographical
conditions of inclosed seas of com
paratively contracted area, together
with the close proximity of the con
testants, and the enforced concentra
tion of nafies, have resulted In naval
conditions, as regards both subma
rines aad main fleets, snch ns will
probably never occur again.
Certainly it seems difficult, if not
Impossible, to conceive of any cir
cumstances In which the navy of the
United States would meet the navy
of another power under conditions
approaching those of the recent
North Sea naval battle.
Let any reader who wishes to get
my meaning clear look at a globe
and compare the little southeast cor
ner of the North Sea where the Ger
man fleet is concentrated- with our
open and far-stretching coasts.
For the United States more
than any other naval power a
■wirt, powerful, and homogeneous
battle cruiser fleet in each ocean is
n sine qua non for our naval
supremacy, and for the safeguard
ing of omr extended coasts from
rninoux and humiliating
and raids.
Mexicans aqd Massachusetts Guards-1
men in Clash.
A party of mounted Mexicans ex-1 I think it will be generally accept-
changed fire with L Company, of the that, no matter how many droad-
Ninth Massachusetts Infantry near noughts and superdreadnoughts
El Paso Tuesday. According to re- Groat Britain possesccs, had she been
ports the Guardsmen were doing out- lacking In swift battle cruisers the
post duty when the Mexicans rode up »Quadron of von Spee might atlll be
on the opposite bank of the Rio harassing British shipping in any or
all of the teas of the globe. It Is
Grande snd opened fire. The Guards
men suffered no cssusltlee, bat re
ported they believed they had killed
one Mexican.
Thirty Homea
Thirty homes is Bat Cave
Chimney Rock. N. C . hav* I
washed away. Tba death Hot
aad
children.
Miss Hill, M.
1 Holey aad tw
v Hin,
also a self-evident feet that la spite
of Great Britain’s many dread-
no ■' JUH|
ittle cruisers have raid
ed the asst coast of England almost
at will.
If this eaa he doaa on n lew ko-
dned arilee ef eoast. In epiOe ef Oman
long-range guns enabling them to
Isugh st destroyers and submarines?
•oppose there wore only two—to
my nothing of fonr—hostile thirty-
knot battle crulsors In the Pad fin.
How many battleahl. a of tho Penn
sylvania type woald be necessary to
Insure tbe Pad fie Coast f.om bring
raided at will ty these swift, power
ful ships?
No number of battleships within
reason will protect car covets from
raid aad damage by aa
tie cruisers unless we have
dent number of battle
enlvea.
As bearing on tho
which » swift battle cruiser
under aa alert comm:ader
evade onr scouts aad
reach the most Important
oar coasts, lot mo recall that,
tho.last sight months, throe
tho Kronprtns WUhoCx tho
Friedrich, and tho Ag|
aad foal, oat of eoadittoa
speed greatly radaead by
lag at eon. eaters*
with ao hint or sasptdoa of
approach bolag known an*
poked their noses Inside the
The only aakwer vo battle <
Is battls cruisers.
At present, after dadi
ported losses la the North
Uo. Groat Britain bag at
of these ships aad tlx ‘
many has at least six end «
building; Japan has four aad fomr
authorised.
By tho ftmo tho
shall have <
ships, while each of at leoet three
other powers will have Own er
three dl virions or mom
* Is this a safe ratio? Can n single
division of these ships properly pro
tect even one of our long coasts?
▲re two divisions on each coast—
sixteen ships in nil—too many to
render our corate safe?
There aro nt present In tho United
States facilities for building sixteen
capital ships r.lnultcnoously. Why
not utlllxo at loast throe-fourths of
these building facilities and start
immediately on tho construction of
eight battle cruisers—a division of
four for tho Atlantic and a division
of four for tho Pacific—and four bat-
tleshtpo; and-ta the next year’s build
ing program duplicate this order?
No one interested In insuring onr
country against attack can object to
building more battloealps, if they aro
built in addition to a sufficient num
ber of battle cruisore. But I submit
for the most earnest consideration
whether It may not be most unwiso
nt present to build battlo crulsors.
Wo now have a considerable number
of battleships. Wo have no battle
cruisers. A hostile bottle cruiser
division will be a deadly menace.
Tbe only answer to it la n sufficient
number of battle cruisers of our
own. '
Who has forgotten the apprehen
sion, to use a mild word, felt along
our entire Atlantic Coast from tho
time Cervera’o squadron loft Spain
nntll it was located In tho West
Indies?
What la tho eompar.oon between
Cervera’s squadron and oir navy at
that time, aad a battle crnicer divi
sion of slips like tho lion end
Tiger, the Hindonbnrg and Ereatx
Freys, or the Kirishlma aad Haruna
—ships credited with thirty knots
■peed or more and armed with fif
teen-Inch gbae—and onr
navy?
Is tka ratio against in
times greater now. In spite
growtk of oar navy?
The object
are fair and <
xadarstacdabto by o
If eaagrarts will
• stft.