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Show happen to want any misunderstanding much less a war with the United States, for she knows, to be gin with, that she would have not only the United States, but Great Britain, Germany and France also to deal with, and if these last three powers were to keep their hands. off, in the end the United States would lick her to a finish. When she recuperates from her late war, becomes be-comes the real dictator of China, has some 5,000,000 Chinese trained to arms, and builds up a great fleet, she may decide that Asia should be for Asiatics, and want to try conclusions with the Caucasian race the. brown and yellow. men against the white; but that will not come just yet : She knows thoroughly that were she to precipl tate a war now, all the fruits of her late .victory would be lost, not only the material fruits, but the prestige she gained, and that 'some ' assessments would be levied upon her which would relegate her again to the position of a-fourth-rate power and overwhelm her with debt . ,,.vOf course the Argonaut expects no war with Japan.' When the Philippines were conquered from, Spain and then paid for, the Argonaut did not want our country-to occupy -those islands, and its argument argu-ment of what would happen should Japan spring a war upon us was put out merely to show its superior wisdom some seven or eight 'years ago. ' But it did not prove even that The United States must or must not be a great world power. If lie. former," then she must assume, the responsibilities responsi-bilities of her position. One result of that occupation occupa-tion of the Philippines, and later the sending of a. detachment de-tachment of U.S.' soldiers 'to" Peking, is that just how a constitution is being framed for. the Chinese nation. Maybe God was behind that whole .business the sinking of Monti jo's fleet without the loss of a man on our side, the co-occupation of Peking by American, troops, the policy marked out by Secretary Secre-tary Hay maybe God was watching. ' Of course the Argonaut, being in SanFranciscoand possessing possess-ing . a wise editor, may not believe much in God, but we cannot always tell. 1 'Our. flag means a good deal to the world's peoples,' peo-ples,' and all that it means cannot be worked out in a few brief years; but enough has already been shown to make clear that there is no nation that wants to go to war against it, and especially not Japan-just now. RAISING SPOOKS. The Argonaut of San Francisco draws a lurid picture of what would be should Japan, over the San Francisco school question, or some other, suddenly, ' as she did with Russia, make war upon the United States.. It gives the number of battleships and cruisers that Japan has in the Pacific, the few that . .' the United States( has, and sees that "the Philippines would be captured .before "ti'eUnited States, eould raise a hand in-defense. The logic of' the Argonaut is good; -the only ,trouble about it is that it haa no special foundation fa --3 epjf9t fsT'H jfort RQW doe? po |