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Show H MYSTERIOUS WAR PLAY. H I No one outside the White House and the war office seems to M I fcnow why 20,000 American troops are being hurried to the Mexican M ' border or why the Atlantic and Pacific squadrons of warships are H being assembled at Gvantanamo, in Cuba, and San Diego on the H Pacific coast The explanation offered, that the movement is one M of maneuvers, is the emptiest kind of an excuse. Such an expensive H military move is wholly unjustifiable except as an exigency of war or in anticipation of war. " H There are a number of causes, any one of which may have led Hj to the present military excitement. H The rebellion in Mexico, attended by destruction of property H 0f the Americans and mistreatment of American citizens. H i The Socialistic designs on Mexico. H "The prospective intervention of Great Britain or Germany to H . protect foreign property in Mexico. M The uncertainty attaching to the maneuvers of the Japanese warships off the west coast of Mexico. M The feverish haste with which troops are being moved cannot be H explained on any other theory than that of prospective foreign in- H tervention or a threatened Japanese invasion, through Mexico, of H this country. Foreign intervention should have been a subject of international diplomacy, without any necessity for war maneuvers. H A secret movement of a large body of Socialists from the United H States might justify a stronger border guard, but not an army drawn H from all parts of the United States, even as far east as New York. H I The war play, if play it is, will pour hundreds of thousands of H dollars into the treasuries of the transportation companies. That, H at present, seems to be" sufficient excuse for the "army maneuvers." |