The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-04
.RUM0RS OF WAR
STIR WASHINGTON
ADMINS STRATtON LEADERS MAX.
ING STRENUOUS EFFORTS
FOR SETTLEMENT
REAL SITUATION SHOWN
BY Big Demand fer More Fortifica.
tions in Pacfic---Taft Says
Truth Might Cause Struggle
Berlin is lnfamed.

Washington, Feb 3--The sp-eel
Friday might, of Senator Perkins o
California, in which he predicted ;
} clash between the United States anG
Japan continues 10 be the chief sub
/ jest of much comment today Many
senators and members of the house
while saying. the speech was i'll ad
vised and calculated still further 10
strain the relations between the two
nations, admit that there is in the
argument of the California senator
much food for serious thought
1t is no secret that the administra-
ton leaders. while deprecating all talk
of war, are making every effort 10
effect a settlement Of the San Fran
cisco school problem with as little de.
lay as p,seible and on such terms as
viii bring no humiliation TO Japan
Members of the cabinet and other
close friends Of the president continue
0 assert that the seriousness Of the
situation is much exaggerated in pub
| lished reports.
War Talk Bosh, Says CuIom.
After long talk with the president
today Senator Cullom, the chairman
cf the committee on foreign relations,
said
"This war scare is all bosh. I'd like
to 60 to war with Senator Perkins for
talking the way he did last night.
There is no more chance of our going
to war wfh Japan over this little
school question said the aenator,
than there is Of fighting China, Rus
sia or Great Britain
However. the real seriousness Of
the matter lies in the reports received
by Secretary Taft The army and
navy boards whose business IL is to
ascertain the situation and draw les
sons of preparation from the acquired
knc wledgo have reported privately
facts that it would not do, for inter
national reasons. to have reach the |
have them reach the ear Of congress |
for that is 10 give them publicity. In. |
urging congress TO grant money fer |
Secretary Taft, there.
fore can not tell all he knows and this
year he has not told congress one
tenth of what he knows.
Truth Might Precipitate War.
If ii were said bluntly and openly
that the officers of the army anl
navy believe a conflict is TO come
with any nation there would be diplo
matte friction and the war of the fu-
ture might become the war of the
present
No man can judge the whole truth
IF the situation from the mere faci
hat money is sought to plant big
guns at the entrance of certain Pa
eific harb0rg. Money has been asked
before for this purpose. but never
with the urgency shown this year
f congress could be told the rea
sons that underie the request it
would make its answer in cash, bgt
congress is slow to believe there is
'eal nece sity for anything which re
lulres an expenditure for purpc ses
,ther than those of local improve
nent
The war and state departments are
n possession of information which
eads them to bel eve that if Japan
we're on sound financial basis
rouble between that country aud
he United States would not be a ques
ion IF the future but OF the presen.
len who more than any diplomat
.eep the departments informed as 10 =
he real state of affairs have made the d
tatement that the Pacific posses
ions of the United States must be =
ortiiied adequately as soon as the a
money can be obtained. They are not d
lischief makers and while the cabi- s
ct official have so regarded them at
ines, II s year due atten ion has l.
cen paid to what they have said. n