Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-01-21

have been cOmpaSSed with the utmost secrecy,
as well as with the utmost dispatch"
'Mr. NJ p Schwerin, manager the Pachc
Mail Steamship Company, speaking from ad-
vice which come to him from reliable sources
in his own employ, declares that the arsenals
of Japan are now and have been working DAY
and night for more than a year. Vast quanl-
ties of powder, cloathing, guns and other war
materials are being manufactured with an IN
industry and an apparent haste which he can
not understand. Shell works. amor plants,
shipyards, gunyards and projectile factories
are growing up everywhere and going to WORK
with feverish haste and diligence. The Lana
of Nippon is martial workshop The krupp
Gun Works in Germany have almost been SUP
sidized, as we have shown, the Whitehead
Torpedo Works have been closed to the world
by Japanese orders"
"Japan's financial operations have been al
most as feverish and as eager as her naval ana
military work. Loan after loan has been
placed at home and abroad. No nation has
ever issued bonds as Japan has issued them
during the last two years, except in time OF
sorcd press has purposely created the impress
sion that the nation was in financial stress,
but in point of fact, beyond the vast expendl-
lures described above, Japan has accumulated
specie exceeding 600 600, 900 yen, and has now
in advance money enough to carry on war by
land or sea for years to come"
"lhe government has continued its Wal
taxes unbrokenly since the fall of Port Arthur
and is ever reaching out for new monopolies to
swell the war chests"
''She has increased rather than decreased
her army, and has now fighting force nearly
one. fourth stronger than the mighty host she
sent out to meet Kuropatkin on Manchurian
plains"
''She has sent her soldiers in the garb OF
different csllilgs to our colonies and to our
mainland, and according to the careful estl-
mate of Congressman HobSon, Japan now has
available by this means 10000 men of military
experience in the Philippines, $4,000 men in
the Hawaiian Islands, and on the Pacific slope
100000 men, or actually on American soil
more trained soldiers than the entire standing
army of the United States.N
EWhat do these preparations mean! Whom
is Japan preparing to fight? There is no
threat or danger looming from Russia. There
is no menace from China. England is her
ally. China is practically her province.
There is not a shadow on her relations with
any nation on earth save one and that one
America"
''The censosed press of Japan has criticism
and prejudice only for the United States. 1t
was Japan, thru the censored press, that
brought about the recent Chinese boycott of
American goods"
cit was Japan that brought about the
destruction of the American cotton market in
China, dropping its purchase in year from
800, 900, 900 to $4,000, 00O."
This hostil press in Japan that cries out so
fiercely against trihes in the San Francisco
schoole and restaurants is amiably silent over
much graver incidents in other countries.
''Stnsitveness, resentment, ferceness of
individual feeling seems to be reserved in
Japan and China only for the nation to which
Aoki, Hayashi and Okuma continue to extend
their suave assurance of affection"
'Let him who runs read these facts and the
lesson that they carry"
''And let every citizen who reads and thinks
Judge whether there is not solid foundation
here for the appeal for a stern and watchful
policy in strengthing every national defence