WHAT PACIFIC FLEET WILL MEAN
* TO INTERESTS ON THIS COAST
Admiral Rodman Gives Comprehensive Statement
of the Significance of Stationing Big Organ
ization of Fighting Vessels in Pacific
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6 (by As
sociated Press).—“So long as our fleet
retains its present comparative
strength and efficiency we cannot
imagine that any nation, bar none,
will have the hardihood to make war
on us,” Admiral Hugh Rodman as
serted in an address at a great civic
reception here to Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels and officers of
the Pacific fleet.
The advent of the Pacific fleet, the
admiral said, is sure to increase
greatly the commercial marine, de
velop the harbors, give additional em
ployment to the worker and add to
the business of the Pacific coast.
“We want you good people of the
Pacific coast to feel that this is your
fleet, your protective force,” he said,
“but you should realize that we need
your hearty co-operative assistance
in keeping up its efficiency.”
The admiral in his address said:
Second Naval Power
“To one who is unaccustomed to
making addresses in public, I am
afraid that you have given me rather
a large proposition in the discussion
of ‘The Fleet’, so I will confine myself
to giving you a brief discription of
it, and some of the salient reasons
for sending such a powerful fleet to
this coast.
“Two years ago, when we entered
the war, we had a strong competi
tion as to who had the second largest
navy, Great Britain, of course, taking
first place. k
“Well, that competitor has been
wiped off the face of the earth; it
has been completely eliminated; in
fact, doubly so, for not only was it
chased off the high seas and driven
into its holes behind its guns in its
fortified harbors, like a lot of plague
stricken rats, but it was compelled
under stress to ignominously surren
der, and then, with the usual Hun
treachery was surrepticiously sank at
its anchorage in Scapa Flow.
“And so I repeat, in all truth, that*
it is completely annihilated; not a
vestige remains; in fact, not enough
to offer a target to a well-armed ferry
boat.
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“The primary credit for this must;
be given to the British grand fleet,
which had three years of the most
strenuous hard work in accomplish
ing this before we entered the war;
but it hould be remembered that
when we did enter we contributed
our full share by at once sending our
destroyers, battleships, mining force
and other types of vessels to the war
zone, all of which immediately took
an active part and rendered most
valuable service.
“No further thought need be given
to any fears of Germany ever being
a menace, so long as present condi
tions obtain.
Navy Is Our Bulwark
“It is true that we are now at peace
with the whole world, nor can we
imagine that any nation, bar none,
will have the hardihood to make war
on us, so long as our fleet retains
its present compartive strength and
efficiency; for it is a maxim in naval
warfare that an enemy which is sep
arated from us by the broad expanse
of an ocean, and which must
be crossed to attack us, must have a
superior force to our own, to expect
any degree of success.
“A war with any country that now
f has a stronger navy than ours is to
my mind utterly out of the question;
nor could I imagine that any would
be foolish enough to meet us on our
shores, or attempt an invasion.
“When our ships had all returned
from the war zone, when peace was
declared, our secretary of the navy
very wisely decided that Washing
ton’s adage, ‘In time of peace prepare
for war,’ still held good, and that
since our Atlantic coast had hereto
fore been the most probable scene
of hostilities, as it was, that now, be
ing at peace with the whole world,
with no prospective wars for years
to come, our Pacific coast should he
developed as our Atlantic coast had
been in bygone years.
More Than Ships Needed
“You should understand that ships
alone are not all that go to make a
navy. We must have navy yards,
dry -docks, coaling stations, repair
plants, naval bases, radio, aerial and
training stations, and these must not
only be established and be ample
to take care of a fleet but they must
be actually tried out and tested to
prove their efficiency,
“And o our secretary very wisely
decided to send this magnificent fleet,
consisting of over one hundred and
seventy-five vessels, aggregating over
five hundred thousand tons displace
ment, valued at four hundred and
twenty-five million of dollars, includ
ing vessels of all types, dreadnaughts,
battleships, armored cruisers, destroy
ers, submarines, mine layers, sweep
ers, supply, fuel and hospital ships,
most of which are here today in your
home waters, to be followed immedi
ately by the remainder, to develop the
Pacific coast to the highest degree
from a naval standpoint.
Value of Panama Canal
“We may need additional yards,
more dry docks, and some of the
other utilities, but uner any circum
stances, in addition to constituting
your protective force, it is sure to
greatly increase your commercial
marine, develop your harbors, give
additional work to the laboring class,
and add to the business of your com
mercial and professional class, to say 1
nothing of the disbursement of pub
lic funds for the food, supplies, re
pairs, etc., of the fleet and also of
the personal funds of the officers and
men. The great wisdom of building
the Panama canal has been amply
demonstrated, which, as you know
from the debates in congress, was
built for strategic as well as for com
mercial purposes, by our recent pas
sage through it, which was accom
plished expeditiously, smoothly and
without a single untoward incident.
“It leaves no doubt: whatever that
should the necessity or desirability
arise of uniting the Atlantic and Pa
cific fleets, in either ocean, that it
could be accomplished in a remarka
bly short time, not over one week,
and so the Pacific coast today is
doubly insured, not only against in
vasion but from any attack on its
fleet, which would offer any chance
of success.
Fleet Belongs to Coast
“We want you good people of the
Pacific coast to feel that this is your
fleet, your protective force, but you
should realize that we need your
hearty co-operative assistance in
keeping up its efficiency. This is best
accomplished by friendly intercourse
and exchange of ideas, and to this
end you could not have better paved
the way than by giving us such a
cordial welcome, and extending to us
the boundless hospitality for which
California and the west coast is so
justly famous, and for which, on the
part of our officers and men of the
Pacific fleet, I wish to thank you with
all my heart.
“Let me add that many of our men
who came in to serve during the war,
are soon to be discharged, to re
engage in their several pursuits and
occupations which they previously
followed, and we will expect you to
lend a hand in our recruiting by en
couraging others out here to join the
navy, than which there is no more
honorable profession. Our crews
must be kept filled in order that our
ships remain in fighting trim and up
to the very highest standard of effi
ciency, such as they have enjoyed in
the past.”
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