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Show City had cast upon their Nation by decreeing that In their primary schools, where the little children are sent, the men of that city would not permit Asiatics to attend, but rather would give them separate schools, with just the same books and just as good teachers ? Does the Nation forget that the whole handling, if not the science of war. has changed in the last ten years ? Has the Nation one reproof for ("treat Britain, 1 who in the last ,six years has built more battleships than all three of the strongest powers of the earth, i to-wit, I'nited States, (termsny and France, and that , it is now building four more ships which it claims are to be invulnerable in battle, and built to overtake over-take any other ships afloat ' The Nation has discounted almost everything American, but it has not iute. v.-t. got up to the point of calling (Jeorge Washington an extravagant old fool for warning his countrymen to "In time of pejii-e prepare for war." j INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEFENSES. The passage by the Senate of a bill increasing the artillery by over 8000 officers and men. and its fa- 1 vorable report to the House, is gall and wormwood j to the New York Nation. It mournfully says: "Prior to the war with , Spain our artillery consisted of five regiments, comprising com-prising about 3o00 men. Now we have officers and 18,188 men. With the additional strength about 1 to be authorized the artillery alone wjll be as large as our entire army on January 1. 10." J That is one way of looking at it. but it' that addition addi-tion should have the effect f preventing a war. it would be cheap, would it not? The Nation further says: "So far a- the artillery artil-lery is concerned, we are told that we need it because be-cause we have so many coast defenses A t.vv years, ago Congress was asked for guns because we had, none for our artillery, and so the game e' s on The public lias quite forgotten that when the F.ndicott board's vast system of coast defenses was created, it was with the assurance thai with these forts we should never need a large navy Now we squander millions upon battb-hips ami land defenses alike. : IWs the Nation rein-nd.er when the whole Atlantic At-lantic coast was in a half panic lest ' rv.-ra 's fleet should bombard New York. Boston and f'hdadel phia. and play smash generally. , s the Nation forget that m the last four v e m's a power ha sprung up in the n-wnt ulncl, ,s a terror ter-ror and the papers of winch, a few '-" '""" enmniended ,hat a Meet should b- sent to San. I-ran e.seo to wire out the insult which the MPT, of that |