Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-14

1 ly influence President Roosevelt to abandon his resolve not to again be , a candidate for President than a for eign war next year during the closing part of his term? He would then
 have very cogent excuse for yield. ing to pressure"
 Ft. Wayne SentineI-It is finally admitted at the Navy Department that a fleet of twenty battleships is to be sent to the Pacific There is much laboriousness of effort. both in this country and in Japan. to assure the world, and especially the United
 States, that there is not even the re. motest danger of conflict with Japan, and perhaps there is not But Japan is quietly insiStent upon what she considers her rights in behalf of Jap anese in America San Francisco continues to rub salt in the old wounds and the government at Wash ingtCn is sending a score of the most powerful ships afIoat.
 Hartford Times-If all the battle
 ships in the United States Navy are
 sent away to the Pacific, will not this furnish a strong jingo argument in favor of building a new set of battle ships to protect the Atlantic Coast. Perhaps that is one of the objects aimed at in the movement of the bat tIeship fleet which the Roosevelt ad- ministratiOn has now undertaken. Pittsburgh Post-TheTe is quite a color of probabilities in the rumor that the sending by the United States of big fleet to the Pacific is calcu- lated, like the Japanese jingo out break, purely for home effect in pOli- tics. It is argued that the presence of some of our big war vessels along the California coast and in the Pacif- ic will do much to overcome a feeling of hostility to the administration party that has become very evident here in the West since the Presiden- tial message idealizing the Japanese was issued.
 Scranton Truth-Among- the things alleged by some of the Japanese ''yel- low journals" against the American people is that they are commercial minded and will readily make conces- sions rather than impair their money interests by the risk of war. The Japanese will do well not to fool themselves with this notion. The people of the United States like those of any other nation, like to make money, but love of country stands first with Americans, rich and poor. as the Japanese will soon find out; if they insist on making trouble.
 Canton Repository-As Uncle Sam does not have to ask the consent of any other nation to send warships in- to Pacific waters, there would seem to be no sufficient reason why the Secretary of the Navy should not or der the battle ships into the western coast on a practice cruise any time he desires.
 Chicago Inter-Ocean-The pro- posed cruise of fifteen to twenty bat tleships from the Atlantic to the Pa cific during he coming winter will be spectacular test of naval efficiency and an impressive exhibition of this nations sea power This movement from the Atlantic to the Pacific is not intended as a menace to Japan or any other power. It is simply an ef- fort to find out whether the navy can do what 1t might be required to do in case of war. It is demonstration whose success will help prevent war.
 Washington Post-If Japanese in- tentions are amicable. she can take no affront at any disposition America shall make of the American navy. If, on the other hand, she shall regard the presence of a strong American fleet in the Pacific as a menace, there is nothing to it but that she means mischief, and VIII do mischief as soon as opportunity affords.
 St. Louis Republic-The German newspaper opinion that the Japanese will attack our warships if we send many of them to the Pacific may be taken to mean only that we know more about the Japanese and the Pa cific Ocean than the German editors do. For all that can be learned in this country. the jingo outcry against the United States in Japan is nothing but the yelping of an opposition party, which wants to turn Ministry out of office.
 Syracuse Herald-It is not possible to correct this injudicious distribu- tion of our naval defenses without, giving offense to Japan. Time will tell; but by the great body of the American people, who are not versed in the mystifying subtleties of diplo- matte light and duty of the United States governmen to remedy this i'm prudent alignment of our naval