When making the speech in which he referred to the great need for a 15 strong Navy President Roosevelt said at Newport last month: "I want first-class fighting Navy or no Navy at all, because a first-class Navy is the most effective guarantee of peace the Nation can have. There are always: 'a number of amiable and well-meaning people who believe in having a Navy merely for coast defence. A purely defensive Navy would be almost worthless. To advocate such a Navy is like advocating a school of prize-fighting in which no one should do anything bat parry. [hope the institut have to hit. We should do that honourably can be dor trouble, But when we go to is only oxen to hammer its opponent until he is theongh can't him to come to. the coast you first. For the protection of our corists. we need fortifications, so that
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