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In those sixteen years the Government expended more than three hundred millions on the Navy!(4) It expended scarcely three millions to aid in building up its mercantile marine, and expended much of that unwisely.
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Blaine criticizes the government's spending priorities regarding the Navy versus the mercantile marine.
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