Show STEEL RAILS AND friendship japan is buying american rails in quantity tor for use in manchuria and everything is lovely the little brown b brother TO ther lays hia hand band on his bis heart and protests the warmest affection for the americans our traditional friendship Is once more at work it Is quite clear elear that japans intentions are wholly pacific for the present en notwithstanding the vast and apparently parent ly extravagant expenditures it is making on the army and navy just now it Is s thought that the count country rv Is too poor to engage in a further career of adventure but the time will come when we must fight japan there is not the slightest use blinking that fact and indeed it would bo criminal negligence to ignore it this contingency of war between the united states and japan has formed the subject of recent v tiati ons between great britain and japan at the time of the difficult difficulty ty over the admission of japanese to the san Fran francisco tisco schools there was no little alarm in england concerning the obligations of the treaty of alliance with japan which might involve the british empire in the quarrel england of course did not want to be dragged ragged i into war with the united states for a cause of quarrel in which she had no concern therefore when matters had bad quieted down the br british ibish ministry took up the situation with the japanese As a result of these negotiations japan will agree to attempt no aggrandizement during the c continuance ontI nuance of tho the existing alliance with great britain and andi will cultivate friendly relations with the united states it is understood that this agreement will be ratified rati fled during the of prince fushimo to england en gland ana anti in the mo antimo the japanese are buying rails ralls to stiffen tho the friendship ir IV 1 ii international love expressed in 6 cold old steel |