Show I The LIstok a paper published at < Odessa Russia puts out a warning I that the ships of the United States I cannot go to Constantinople except un i tier penally of being blown out of the j I water by Russian German and Austrian Aus-trian ships The London Spectator bc I I lleves the article was seriously Intend J j fd and may have been the work of a I I diplomat otherwise It could nol have I passed the press censor that the publIcation I I j pub-lIcation of such an article certainly 1 suggests government assent All that I i kind of stun makes the men of this country smile There Is probably no Idea of going to Constantinople with lour navy to collect a bill less In amount than the coal would cost to send the navy over there But when those papers pa-pers talk about blowing the Untied Stales navy oul of the water that makes people smile As old man Stevenson Stev-enson said up In Idaho when the Bannock Ban-nock Indian told him If he did not get out of Limo corral where he was forll I lied the Nez Perces would that night I break down the corral and massacre Stevenson and his family the old man said What would we be doing while I they were at that business and the thought naturally comes what would I j the United States ships be doing while tho Russian German and Austrian ships would be sinking them The United Stales wants no quarrel with any of those powers All she wants of Turkey is that she shall pay a little bill which she has been promising to pay for thr > e or fonr years But there ought not to bo any bluffs about sinking sink-ing the American navy because that Is a good deal of an undertaking so much so that we doubt very much whether Russia or Germany or Austria would Interfere In case the United States I should send a few ships to Turkish waters wa-ters simply as a material evidence of how much our country desired a sellle ment t |