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Excerpt from The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 2: Presidential Addresses and State Papers
Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy. A naval war is two thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for years preceding its outbreak. We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisions Of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the navy. In 1882 our navy was a Shame and a disgrace to the country in point Of material. The personnel contained as fine ma terial as there was to be found in the world but the ships and the guns were antiquated, and it would have been a wicked absurdity to have sent them against the ships Of any good power. Then we be gan to build up the navy. Every ship that fought under Dewey had been built between 1883 and 1896. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
