In view of the many improvements and increases by foreign Governments the slightest halt on our part in respect to new construction throws us back and reduces us from a naval power of the first rank and places us among the nations of the second rank.
Taft warns that any slowdown in naval construction could diminish the United States' status as a top naval power.
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