| Show SHAW EXPLAINS SPEECH Stoutly Denies That He Predicted War With Japan in His Morristown Talk HE CITED WELL KNOWN FACTS Told Japan Do antl Not NoL What She Rould no Feb DI DIShaw Shaw former secretary of the trens ury today dented denied that he had prel predicted with with Japan In hl Ids recent lJ ech at Morristown N J which Is Bald to y have occasioned comment In Tokio I I 1 did cite c certain well known facts the ogle of which spell wm war said gald Mr Ir j Shaw I 1 cited the fact that we two sent S 16 warships to the Pacific ocean t J JI demonstrate our prowess and hired 27 ships built of foreign material In for I I yards and foreign flags to carr carry the necessary supplies anti and antiI H I stated what nil all men know that that ono one shot from the meanest county y that owns a gun would have sent every one of oC these home for no country would consent to have Its flag mixed up In our contentions We Vo are at peace with the tho world and ond yet In 1909 the Ii war sear department hired more than 10 ships to do Its work We e send od food to the soldiers In tho Philippines 11 In Japanese bottoms 11 I 1 culled called attention to the fact that Jt j Japan canI did not say she will but that she soldiers In Hawaii In 30 days without firing a shot and and being then at we could not put over oer there thero to contest the territory In two years ears We Vc have no ships with which to do It and In ht event ot war we could neither hIre nor norI I bu buy Japan can lan land a fleet at Seat Seattle lie any tO foggy I da day wIthout so much as causing the barking of oC a dog and she Ih can march her troops down the tho COI coast t tand and take every excuse for tor fortifications which wo haye on the coast wIthout opposItion Not ono one or of t the forts Is prot protected from the rear and cannon that are arc nv to defend against an attack b by sea cannot be turned around In 1 16 mInutes to re resist an attack from the land landI i I 1 also cited the tact fact that If every p t powder mill In the United States were to make 21 hours per day I for j more o at than rr 30 years the rl product r J c clust would o lust last our present navy two hours SO that In case ot of war I if every powder I mill were to quit making sporting pow powder I Idel del der and blasting powder and amI work 24 4 hours per da day for the tho government we could light two hours ever every month These aro not state secrets Ever Every Everybody body borly knows them except ourselves And still we go on building battleships In this we 0 do o well but battleships without colliers and transports arc ab absolutely worthless In case ot of war wal no 0 could not get our Atlantic fleet to San Francisco No vessel In the fleet can I carr carry enough coat coal to take It there thore and we wc have no colliers and could then thenh h lire re none I 1 dId not predIct war but 1 did predict what we e would up to In case ot of war wart t c |
