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Show a:;d c::i:;a ai;o:;g nations. ... . - Last -week, in Norfojk, Va., died Charles H Graham, Gra-ham, who was a purser's clerk with the Perry expedition expe-dition which opened Japan to the world fifty-three years ago. There have been some changes since tltn. Our Nation opened Japan. It went there un-rlrr un-rlrr the impression that the most that would be found would be a sheep it had no idea that in the silence that wrapped those islands around there was about the biggest and most supple tiger that ever was hunted. Commodore Perry sailed there in a little wooden ship; and the most formidable gun that he ' had was probably an old eight-inch Parrot. Since then wooden ships have been discarded and, the thirteen-inch guns that adorn the turrets of a modern battleship will pierce 'nine-inch armor through and through. And this empire that Perry opened has now if not the most terrible battleship afloat,- next to the most formidable one, and .there -is an impression that the powder which Japan uses, and which a Japanese chemist invented, is more powerful than any used by outside powers. - . . Five or six years ago the great nations generally were in favor of reducing the world's artnaments. Now when the question is broached they point with their thumbs over their shoulder at Japan and shake their heads. .And it is said that throughout China every templev. except those built in honor of Confucius Con-fucius has ben converted into a schoolhouse that young-Chinese may be instructed from the books taught in European and American schools. All of which shows that the Mongolian hive is swarming sure enough, and that the cry in. a little while will -be.-"Asia for the Asiatics." " " But in addition the outside world is asking: '.'Will they stop with Asia!" That is the ques-- ques-- tion, and it is, a serious one. Think of the host of them 1 . Were 1,000,000 of them to be killed in battle tomorrow, a week hence there would be no more to show for.it than there is where a stone was dropped into midocean yesterday. And when grasshoppers come in sufficient numbers they are sufficient to stop a-sixty-mile - great railroad train. It is good to preach peace, but the Caucasian race, and especially tLj United States Government, will be cjazy unless preparations are made of a kind which will cause Japan to want to keep the peace with us for all time to come. |