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Show t Touches Us All .3 Nothing could more effectively demonstrate to every-h every-h :he fact that war or even the threat of war involving i the major Western nations, touches the interest ;;t ;ry other nation and of all of their people, than the m sent and concern now being exhibited in all of the ie! is capitals over the Spanish war and the one that i m in the far East. ra Tiese countries envolved are thousands of miles from '.led States, yet the question of our neutrality and at our Government should do toward cooperating to II at war is a vital and important one. It is one thing . I about prohibiting the sale of war supplies to the v :;rents in a war. It is quite another thing to make a prohibition effective. '."hat constitutes war supplies? Surely food and fuel i Jit as important to waring nations as gun powder and : Wheat is a war supply no less than bullets or gun i?r. J ft are no more anxious that our nation become in-J; in-J; ri in war than the next man, but we do hope that our ,j : mil lend every moral support possible to the efforts 'er great nations in an effort to avert a silly senseless |