Show THE HE JIN OS AND THE FACTS To explain the crime crime- of Jingoism the New York J 1 World compares the popI population wealth incomes A r debts arid and fighting ships of the United States and Japan Japan the intention evidently being to show that there there is no prospect or possibility ty of war b between tween the the United States States' and Japan because of our overwhelming over- over whelming elming strength We do not think that there 1 f 3 is the least present thought of war war- on the part of Japan apan J But the figures es of the World do not count all the f same A similar comparison might have hav been made between Russia and Japan five or or r six years ago A And it is true that right now Japan could if she so willed Jay all our great cities on the Pacific coast under un un- der iler tribute in twenty-five twenty days lay them under tribute or destroy them What would be done later Vis Vi's is another nother thing but what Japan could do now is a clear case an and it itis is a shame for a Government like ours to offer such a temptation to the worlds world's pow pow- ers The World thinks th that t The Presidents President's handling handl handling hand hand- l ling ng of Japanese r relations lations has been a tragedy of errors er er- The President is doing well enough now His actions actions in the San Francisco school bus business ness were were all wrong Had Se Secretary Root been at his post we think he would have settled that matter with ten lines of explanation to Japan What the President did was to place our country in a a. position that could h y not be maintained hence all the trouble since The Jingo press is doing lots of harm We believe believe believe be be- lieve its chief inspiration is acress the Atlantic It would grieve no nation of Europe to see our nation f and Japan at each others other's throats Fortunately there t. t is no disposition in Government circles here or in inV V Japan to do aught but promote p peace ace between the r two countries We hope there never will be but we vt is still ill more anxiously hope that never in future will wIl our west coast be left in the defenseless position it itis itt iw t is Is now in v It J should have standing guard over it it quite OO- OO a worth of battleships submarine submarine fighters g ga A and the lighter and swifter ships of war war And what is in such prep preparation r tion When Then war warr with r Spain was declared President McKinley l a ask skid asked d th that t on one fourth fourth of that amount be placed at his disposal disposal disposal dis- dis to use as he pleased sed And it was done The war had cost before a gun gnu w was was s fir fired d. d And nd then it was vas was but little old helpless Spain that we had V had ha to deal with ith It was one George Washington U who said In time of f peace prepare for r war F In the same editorial the World says The I Spanish mobs were not impressed by American V naval Daval superiority while American were demanding de- de e- e manding a war that the Spanish Go Government did its s i utmost to prevent S Surely e the he wr writer in rn the World is either a youth who knows nothing of history or a man so old that ti 4 his his memory is playing him false The wrongs i It- It i c C flitted by Spain had been crying to heaven f for or redress redress re- re c. c dress for years All the efforts which the United y tates had made to mitigate those wrongs had been met m t by evasion and n mendacity not unmixed with in in- 3 science At last on a perfectly peaceable errand the Maine i sail sailed cd into Havana harbor V J There it was blown up and its crew assassinated The crime shocked all the world n except Spain If ti V 1 1 from her came any sincere regrets or offer so far as possible to make good there is no record of it President President President dent McKinley ey strove stroye to h his s utmost to avert the tie war f Had he been met half way it would have been averted but it was not Indeed not only did the Spanish but the French Austrian and Italian prestell press pres tell teU how qu quickly the paper warships of the United States would melt away under the guns of the Spanish fleet At last the tide of public sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment in tho the United States rose ros so that even President President dent McKinley could not breast it It was no Jingo business it was tho the gathered wrath of a great peo peo- pie Congress declared war Behind the declaration was no Jingo excitement It came as a's did the writing on the wall wali of the banquet banque hall of pf the Babylonian Ki Ring King g. g It had to be And still there was a way through which it might have been e n averted Had Congress done its duty had i it provided a navy something in tonnage and sp speed ed and guns appropriate to represent a nation like ours there would have been no war But it it- followed the advice of just such newspapers as as the World anc and when the crisis crisis' came the country was put t to more expense in four months than a dozen navies wOI would d I have cost Th There re will vill be no present wax war there ther will wil never be one if our defenses are made ready to meet one |