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Show WAR WITH JAPAN. . The speech of Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, delivered at Morristown, N. J., on last Tuesday, in which he said war with Japan is inevitable, may hasten the day when the two nations will clash. This war scare is open to suspicion, when coupled with the demand for a merchant marine. Twice in the past the Japanese have beon used for the purposes of frightening the American people into sanctioning extraordinary naval expenditures and army equipment, equip-ment, and now they may serve for a third time to fix upon us a ship subsidy in the name of a merohant marine. There is no necessity for alarm, although these repeated declarations declara-tions of a coming war is doing much to destroy all semblance of amity and place the common people of the two countries in a frame of mind to commence an agitation for an early settlement of their differences by a resort to the arbitrament of war. |