| Show I Japan and War m There are arc those who mo believe elleve that the time will come when America an and Japan must fight right for tOl the master mastery of oC the tho Pacific but even if iC that time la is I coming coining it Is man many years a away Neither Neith er country wants to light now neither country has Imas an any ammy excuse for lighting fighting While Thill the mastery mastel of the Pacific ma may some duy day cause the two countries to tu I appeal to tu arms anns neither of them to today ar has the slightest desire he for war var and neither has the slightest timing thins to gain from war Japan has her han hands s fullIn full fullin fullin in Corea Corca and amid an Manchuria and amid an America is Js not yet ct awake to the fact that her future lIc tics lies In the Pacific That talk of oC war var Is 15 silly becomes o l evident ent If JC one mak makes s even cven n a cursory examination of the In the first place no one believes that the lie American government govern Jo ment mont precipitate war aI but there ate are man many Who rho believe that the tho Japanese Japan Japan- ese esc government 0 intends to do so One statement Is as foolish as the other Japan Was has no l Idea ln of oC making war var on onlie the lie United States and even en if she sIte wanted to do o so it would woul be Impossible sible sibbe sl le for many man reasons Some Somo one once sal said that In order to carr carry on un a n. war wara a country countr needed ten timings s. s The was determination the time second men the third equipment an and the tho other seven seen money Now a admitting that lint the Japanese a as a nation possessed the tho first of or these determination to fl lIght fight ht the time United States what hat of the theother theother other requirements First mone money Japans Japan's lack of mone motley money if IC nothing nothing- else would woul serve erve serveto to pi IH event ent war at this tubs time In Iii 1902 I the tue Japanese national debt amounted to o a about out of or which only was held abroad Today foay the he national debt e t Is approximately two-thirds two of or which Is forel n In 1902 the total revenue of he the government go was a about out 00 an and the expenditures were about S1 1 The lime estimated or 1907 was ris und amid the es- es mated expenditures Mils his difference Was illS to l lo ho o made malic up by hy bylie lie hc me floating o of loan loami of or On the time foreign loans balms which n floated for the purpose of or pay- pay ng hg the tIme expenses of or the tho war wm with Rus- Rus sla la Ia interest la in being paid at al from ironi 1 4 to toG toper G per ier cent anti and nn on her Internal loans he the interest runs trout from G 5 to 7 per er cent l r orts ale alC now being eln ma inadi r. r to wit wit- raw the G C per pel cant bonds lJ antI and replace them bent with bonds ons drawing r only emily 4 2 1 per ler er cent To ro secure h her r enormous foreign for for- eign loans made at a time win then a Japan Japan Ja Ja- pan ami was lighting fighting O for fUl her very exist exist- Ilce the Japanese were forced force to pledge e most of or their national income their customs receipts an and amid the tIme re receipts re- re of oC the tobacco anti and other uther mo mo- no p ol ics With nth this financial showing howing could Japan obtain time the money re required re- re Co for l' l a aery very ery long Ions an and very co costly costly cost cost- tI t- t that tha ek I ly war var Tho rito money Russia camo came from fron America an arid and Englan Eng Eng- lan land In a war with willi tIme the United Stat States what country is there that would V talo take the chance chanc of loaning JaPan Japan Japan Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pan such an enormous sum a as would woul bo IJo required 7 No matter how much sentiment there might be in Japans Japan's favor favor and and there is at least on ont olin j power that would without doubt t welcome wel wel- come such a a. conflict sentiment has hm never been a n falling failing o of the great European European Eu Eu- bankers an and it Is from Crom them in the tho en end that the mOlle money must come William H. H Brill Built in Weekly I |
