Show CRANKY CAPTAIN JOBSON Captain and Congressman should attend a night llight school He lIe has not been very much heard from for two two or three years cars and seems determined to reinstate himself in the limelight Just now he hc is bus busy nursing an idea o of a certain war to be upon the United States b by Japan The bad feature of that is that he has not the theS slightest evidence to back his fears fealS Not long ago he S declared that Japan had the war habit for more than years it is with her a question of heredity It is inevitable that as the Japanese emerge from with other wars of their own they engage in wars countries Japan Jan uses the science and knowledge of the world chiefly for war The fhe world will wonder where Captain Hobson picked up that wonderful piece of information When Commander Perry a little more than half halfa a century ago broke in upon the seclusion of Japan v she had for more than years rears been isolated from all the world Then as to the use she is making of her knowledge of the world she is building manufactories manufactories manu mann factories establishing a wonderful merchant marine and if there is anything in signs she means to absorb Just as much of oi the trade of the world world- as she possibly possibly pos pos- sibly can And war is something which interferes with ocean trade immensely Take great Britain for example She has a navy which in tonnage of ships and guns is now just about equal to the navies of three of the foremost of the earth She often uses that nav navy or some squadrons of it for bluffing purposes but if we are arc not mistaken she has not from any of her ships fired a hostile shot since she bombarded Alexandria some thirty years ago and that was a good deal like stealing candy from a baby in its cradle She has a great nav navy but she wants no sea fights because her life is trade her herships herships herships ships are arc on every sea ca and she wants no fights with any other naval power not that she is afraid but because by such a war her merchant ships would be put lUt in ill jeopardy And while Japan too is building a saucy navy she has po no present desire at least to use it in war She fought Russia 1 because her power would have been absolutely broken if she had not But that left her with a 8 great debt which is a mighty burden I upon her people c moreover while she is settling up and changing the status of southern Manchuria i Russia is doing the same in northern Manchuria i and that is an indication that Japan will have havo to hold in reserve all her power to meet again arrain c one of these days that bear that walks like a man I Finally while some newspapers and chatterers in inthe the east cast and across the sea have tried to work up a aS aI S I war between this country and Japan there has not been the slightest estrangement between the governments governments govern govern- ments of the two countries and only the most cordial cor- cor 1 dial dral relations exist between them Moreover I there i is not another nation earth on that Japan would not rather engage in war than with the United Slat Slates Sats s. s |