Show THE MEDDLERS The rhe New York Herald has lias a dispatch from front Washington Wash IVash- ington to the effect that when the proposition was ns first made to send the lie battleship fleet to the Pacific the Japanese showed great displeasure and that before be he- fore the thc order was made to send the tho fleet around the world the Japanese insisted and a n. promise promise prom prom- ise iso from our government that the fleet should not remain remain remain re re- re- re main in the Pacific beyond a II certain length of time This is unthinkable to the average 1 American That our government should send or refrain from sending a fleet to its own coasts and should before doing so promise a foreign power that it would remain remain remain re re- re- re main but a a. short time in its own ports on a given ocean seems scents to us ought to be bo put down as one of the canards which malicious persons love to put out to sow discord between two friendly nations The Thc idea that sixteen American battleships all perfectly equipped cannot go anywhere on the worlds world's oceans at the order of the commander in chief without asking favors or agreeing to limitations limitations limita limita- is ridiculous and in our estimation the time has come when the thc bugaboo of what Japan may do doin doin doin in a a. certain emergency shall be laid forever We Wo do not charge this trouble to Japan we charge it to the press of the tho east and Europe which would like exceedingly to work up a war between Japan and the United States and see these two friendly nations exhaust their strength upon each other The Thc thing to do is the thc square thing the square thing toward Japan and every other power without apology or explanation to do it because it is right and if any power on earth carth does docs not like that let it make its protest in any form it pleases because the great grent republic is too big to be bothering any more about the possibility of war when it is doing the right thing hung |