Show t r. r TO DO UP THE UNITED STATES A German has wr written a book showing what is to tobe tobe tobe be done when Japan does docs up the tho United States We Ye have not seen the book hook but an all elaborate review ill in an eastern paper gives its full outline First the assumption is that England has betrayed ed the Caucasian Caucasian Cau Cau- casian race b by going into au an alliance with Japan Next it is pointed out how indifferent both Great Britain and the Unit United d States seem to be bc to oncoming events c by bj not keeping on hand all the time tremendous p dons dOlls standing armies But as the th thing ng culminates after a while the American fleet is again divided half is sent scat to the Pacific The opening act is in Manila harbor harbol The Tile one monitor of the United States is there blown up by a u Japanese merchantman moored alongside of it Then rhen Togo fogo slips up on the ships sluIs in ill the Pacific in a a. a fog the Americans are taken b by surprise the they cannot handle their ships or guns gUllS and Togo in quick ck succession succession suc sue cession blows lows the Kansas Minnesota New Xe Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire hire Vermont and Connecticut all out of the water with first class celerity And then out of the cellars in San Francisco from from off the fruit t ranches in California from the woods of Oregon and Washington hington from the deserts of Arizona ona and Nevada Nc suddenly there springs plin s into life an au immense und and perfectly appointed Japanese c I army which takes in the thc coast The Americans on 01 the fleet when taken by surprise find that their ammunition ammunition am Inn- is in bad had condition the fuses and shells arc nIe ill timed thc they are arc czis' czis vict victims The lila author of the book toes does not believe in American Amer ican battleships or oi their efficiency or oi the marksmanship marksmanship marksmanship marksman marksman- ship of the crews and the whole story is lurid luril and full of premonition of disaster to the United States lIe He probably never read that at nt the opening of the Kiel Kid canal an till American ship was sent there to honor the occasion occasion that flint the emperor of Germany spent one oue I evening with the captain of or that ship and it got to tobe tobe tobe I be about 11 0 dock o'clock H at t. t ni night ht when hen the emperor asked the captain how Irow long it would take lake for him to o be ready for action in an emergency It was 11 0 o'clock dock at night the crews were all in bed bcd perfect peace reigned through h the J Battleship The commander of the ship in return asked the emperor if he lie would like lik to see how long it would take lie said he lie would 1 The Flie captain simply touched a bell hell on oft the table It was answered h by a gong then another and inside of three minutes every cry man was at his post at the guns gUIlS ready for business The rhe emperor confessed that he lie did not think such a thing was possible The writer probably has not kept track of thin things s sin in the tho past and does oes not know that whenever Americans Amer Amer- jeans have fought with an any other power their etl efficiency C cy cr in in the matter of shooting has exactly doubled that of any enem enemy they ever ran mu against He lIe probably has not heard that in the target shooting at Magdalena bay bar the Americans beat bat all records of all nIl nations and andas andus as us to the efficiency of the ships this German probably probably probably proba proba- bly never heard of a battleship rounding the world and coming home in better condition than it went wont fa a away without ever having been put in dry dock and with no special repairs needed except to scrape the barna barnacles les from the ships ship's bottom I There is no material point in the matter except that there seems to be a determination in Germany to get up a war between the United States and Ja Japan Japan Ja Ja-I pan we do not know for what reason but we have i had plenty of it for the last year and a n half We do not think the they r will be able to succeed at least not under ten years rears for it will take Japan ten years to get ready for an ordinary war much less a war with the United States and then ten years cars is a along along along long way war off Japan may have hayo to fight Russia again within ten years the Panama canal mn may may- maybe be finished in ten years and we hope before ten years ears that the militia of the western states of this republic will be e trained and armed in such a a. manner that without any help except what can ean be given by b sea Japan wot would d have all it could do to hold its own with the great grent republic It is possible that one Japanese can whip two Americans the feeling on this coast is just the reverse reverse reverse re re- re- re verse and the belief is that in a a. rough and tumble either with individuals or with nations one olle American Amer Amer- lean ican soldier can lick liek two Japanese |