The Spanish War revealed that our Navy could hit eight times out of a hundred, and was in other respects unprepared and utterly inadequate to cope with a first-class power.

In consequence of this, and the criticisms of our Navy Department, which Admiral Sims as a young man had written, Roosevelt took the steps he did in his first term.

Three ticklish times in that Spanish War England stood our friend against Germany.

When it broke out, German agents approached Mr.Balfour, proposing that England join in a European combination in Spain's favor.

Mr.Balfour's refusal is common knowledge, except to the monomaniac with his complex.