Show I t ti WHAT IS AND SHOULD BE fi f 1 t The New York Nation deprecates the talk o of po pos pos- r j sible ible war in the newspapers and says the same ame ki kind d jN of of newspaper work brought on the war with Spain Spam f t and is particularly apprehensive that th the b battleships tt e be sent to the West Vest coast the act might precipitate trouble 1 Many of the newspapers are not V guided by wise minds but there is not a bit of sense t i Jn in misstating things The war with Spain was not tr brought on by the newspapers Spain was starving i 1 a vast number of Cubans to death She had ad robbed r nd plundered the island for centuries the people o 1 arose arose in rebellion and tried to shake off the tyranny 1 In response Spain response Spain sought to conquer the rebellion by starving to death the poor wretches that objected to t the e Weyler rule The Tho civilized civilized world protested iU President Cleveland President Cleveland used all his Ins good offices to stop r. r the brutality and more than once contemplated 1 armed interference At last an American battleship was sent there Her errand was entirely peaceful The ship was blown up and her crew assassinated 5 V. V Spain received the news with ind indifference and then the American people forced on the war President dent McKinley strove to the utmost to avert ft it t but butr r Spain Spai 1 practically practicably refused to deplore the event or to tr offer any restitution and the war had to be Now the e Pacific coast is practically unprotected Some few v Japanese students went to the public schools in San Francisco The authorities of that f city had prescribed that Mong Mongolian lian children should i R not occupy the same ame schoolrooms with Anglo t But they fixed just as good schoolrooms for the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese as for American children ga gave them the same books hooks used in the public schools just as capable tr t- t teachers They had the best of reasons for what i they did They gave Japs Jap all the privileges of the i high schools and universities but they did not want their little girls to be seated with young Japanese hoodlums 18 and 20 years ears of age Japan heard oi of ot this and and protested y Instead of informing the tile Japanese Minister at Washington that the Federal Government had no control o over a school boa board d in a a. a State State the P President Pres es- es f o dent ident at once espoused the Japanese claim of unjust treatment It was then that the war talk began It Iti ft i Roll all ll might have hae been easily avoided voided Ab About ut the s same me I time some union umon and union nonunion nonunIOn men of San Francisco FranCIsc ad td a up mix in a Japanese restaurant and wrecked s place They would d have done the same in a French or German or American restaurant They i it 1 t should h uld all have been arrested and fined But that made more protests from Japan and some high caste g Japanese thought it was cause cause for war If under v i Such auch conditions the Unit United d States pleases to send t. t some oIle protection to a long neglected long neglected coast whose t business is isit it It is miles from Japan If a man puts a fence around his farm in New York is that thata r ka a menace to the farmers in England or Germany Y YZ Z The Japanese nation is treacherous and 3 tiye tive Without the slightest warning she de dealt lt Rusa Russa Rus Rus- s sa a a staggering blow Since then she has put on an immense case of swelled head She means to dom dom- dent dent- r l lJ late at the trade of the Pacific No one wants any Y trouble trouble with her heI but if the United States does not t make a e every pre preparation to defend herself she will sometime be caught unprepared red If f the United t y States tates does no not make proper preparations ons to be read ready Y for trouble toubIe she will d day fo for her hel carelessness careless careless- kii some pay y ness ness In in thousands s of brave lives and immense Immense property prop pro P erty losses |