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constant Iteration and r|eiteratlen
that tAe day sonld come when the
United States would have to battle
With Japan The tons OF Japan is
growing rather harsh and The de
mands that the country IL making
seems to be out OF reason with The
situation. Since Japan success In
its val with Russia thai nation has
risen several degrees in It's own es-
timation, and now II seems To be out
TO conquer some other county with
possibly an eye on the United states.
There is a good deal OF jingoisln in
the talk of Japan. and it is not rsis-
ing any serious arm in this conn
try. The Denver News in diseussins
the wal question, puts the matter
thus.
There will be no war between
Japan and the United States. a GER
tain number OF fire eaters in the is
have it. They know the land needs
war upon the republic, in which San
Francisco is located, and q certain
number of hoodlums in towns where
the Japanese are numerous will
prove their excellence by petty riot
ing and vexatious mischief which
ought to and will be stopped. And
that will be all.
For Japan will no more go to
var without some half way decent
reason than any other nation would.
and there is no sort of reason for her
wishing to attack the United States.
men who are in charge of things
over there understand this perfectly.
They want peace, and they mean to
land empire will call for immediate
peace above everything else the world
has to offer. Japan is carrying a
debt small in proportion to her popu-
lation, but fearfuliy large in proper
ton to her amount of wealth. A wal
at this time would increase the debt
and stop the development of wealth,
and anything like a 4ong war would
bankrupt the country. The Japan
csc government knows this, and
nothing short of absolute necessity
could drive them to war. The wal
talk is coming from the opposition.
| nJapan, as everywhere else, the OPP
position wants to be the government.
This is a laudable ambition, since
the struggle insures the survival of
the fittest. But there is no reason
to suppose that readiness to go to
war on petty preteXts is a mark of
fitness in Japan any more thar it
would be here. The lingo is every
where. But everywhere, save in a
land temporarily bereft of its senses,
the lingo is in a minority.
But it might be we'll to state the
American position, nov that we are
about it. If the war talk were COM
ing from responsible ministers in
stead of from an irresponsible minor
ity, if the Japanese statesmen were
firmly bent on war as we believe
them to be anxious for peace, that
fact would not alter one hairs
breadth the position of the United
States. We are going to run our own
affairs N our w way. III we can
do that peacefully, we'll and good. If
we have to fight for it, why, we will
fight. That is all. We have no
quarrel with the Japanese. We like
them, and have shown our liking at
a time of Japan's necessity. But they
r not a people who can mix with
our own; and that being true, we do
not want them in our midst. The
alien races with whom Americans
cannot inter-marry must be kept out.
That is the American position in a
nutshell; and there are not enough
battleships or bayonets in all Asia to
alter it one jot or little.
All the same, we are mighty glad
the matter is not likely to be brought
to that pass. The first year of a war
with Japan would be the most I'M
comfortable year this country has
seen since the days of Bull Run and
Charlottesville. Japan has ten
trained soldiers to our one, she has
a bigger navy in the Pacific than we
could get there in many a day; and
she has shown herself adept at using
both soldiers and ships. We should
beat her in the end, of course, by
sheer weight, if nothing else. But
when we think of the things that
would come before that final victory
we rejoice that the men in charge of
the realm of the mikado are as anx-
ious for peace as ourselves
Minister Conger, of Iowa, did not
leave any great amount of money