Show GETTING ALONG ALL ALLRIGHT RIGHT The naval ni committee of the s senate nate so far as its yer po power extends s has promised the president and coun I try per annum for ten years to come The New York rk Sun not noting ng that that lf tf that program shall be he carried out out out- we shall have haye in 1918 fort forty five fi c battleships n none nc of wl which ic was begun prior to 1903 has ll has fOl forebodings s declaring ring th t t if Japan and many Get continue building fighting ships of the mo most t terrible class they will vill ill each have navies na superior to ours burs urs while we na havo hav two lines of coast to defend and Germany German has but a er very limited coast line It strikes us that is iR going a long wa way off to borrow horrow tro trouble ble We Ye can hardly imagine a possibility possibility ity ty of f any war between o our r country and German Germany It could only come through an attempt to make the United States r relinquish linquish her Monroe doctrine and 1 no one nation to try tha that As to tJ Japan apan- apan we weare are ure paying too much attention to her We might become become become be be- come involved in trouble with her ller were she to make war var upon China butin that event she would have to 1 light fi ht about all an the European powers She would hardly begin until a united demand would go t to her herI I that she must respect the integrity of the Chinese I 1 territory the and war would not progress for a 8 month before Russia would d be thundering at her back door t unless there would be a secret treaty between tho the two to take in and divide di between them northern China In that case Great Br Britain tain and Germany would both hoth be he in in evidence at nt once All ll that may conic conw about but if it does it will be before 1918 and in the meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time the Panama canal will he be completed Again I before that time we that there thero will be he a stipulation illation agreed t to td limiting the tho worlds world's fighting ships The people of both Germany and Japan are already complaining of the burden of taxation Almost an open rebellion was imminent in Japan last winter on on that account Then down Iowa deep cheep Japan would rath rather r I fight un any other countr country than the United States Stales while whilo I Europe and the United Kingdom would almost starve for food and textiles except for their supplies from the Unit United d States Our country will get along with two new llew battleships battleship and the ships needed to accompany accompany pany them turned out eYer every If at the same time wo we could have havo a merchant marine and would call can home the debts deb owing b by p American corporations in fl Europe in JUl ten years ours would be lc the tho richest richest- country that eer oer the sun shone Rhone on |