We are confronted by a condition in respect to the navies of the world which requires us, if we would maintain our Navy as an insurance of peace, to augment our naval force by at least two battleships a year and by battle cruisers, gunboats, torpedo destroyers, and submarine boats in a proper proportion.
Taft outlines the need for the United States to increase its naval forces to ensure peace and security.
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There is no difference between the reasons which call for the application of the leasing system to the coal lands still retained by the Government in the United States proper and those which exist in Alaska.
Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.
The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.
I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.
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