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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt:...the Panama canal is cut a junction of fleets will be no quick or easy matter. Fortunately, true naval policy is really simple in principle, and will remain comparatively so even for America if only the Navy Department is not misled by false considerations. American strategists should not let themselves be harassed by a desperate balancing of conflicting temptations to "control the Atlantic" on the one hand, or to "control the Pacific" on the other. The sea is one and indivisible, and the principle of naval strategy is also one and indivisible. The right place for the main strength of the American navy will always be not a definite locality merely because that locality is peculiarly in need of protection, but the point at which a fleet is most conveniently placed for overcoming its most likely enemy. There, and there only, without other considerations, should strength be concentrated. It may be said that this is rather a theoretical than a practical difference, but the mental ways of approaching the problem are really very important. Suppose, for example, Americans were mistakenly to concentrate their thoughts on the Pacific as their almost exclusive concern, they would be in danger of leaving out of the reckoning the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine which is taken to apply to all South America, and which we believe is well worth keeping unassailed, for it is a clear and useful declaration of policy that helps to simplify the affairs of the western world and therefore to keep the peace. Personal Opinions on Current Events. Rep. H. C. Londenslnger, Seeretnry of the Republienn Congresslonnl Committee, Deelnres for Compulsory Voting. "We will never have really pure politics in America until we devise some means for compelling voters t...