Show I 1 WE DO NOT WANT A WAR wail I 1 WE DO not want another liar we do not know anybody except perhaps a few 1 boa ioa s and some of the people u abo ho sell bell things to fight with mith who ho wants the alie unites united states to go to war again yet we ite hear people on oil the street talking about the ruckus over in china speak as it if they thought it would brin bring back our national prosperity quickly it if this country took a hand in the fracas in the first place its none of our business so far we have read or heard nothing about the japan china affair which remotely suggests the possibility that our country lias has or Is likely to hale haie any grievance gr leance against either of the lighting fighting nations sufficient to justify us in declaring war war Is a more serious business than unthinking youth regards it our governments duty in the case be beins begins ins and ends end s with nith protecting the lives Q and interests of americans in china and japan and in urging the combatants under the terms of treaties 11 with ith them to which we are a party to submit their differences to impartial arbitrators so far as we can see the authorities fit at washington are keeping their heads cool and doing all that american interests I 1 require them to do 1 war does not bring prosperity but the opposite our grandchildren grand children wont finish paeng pa ing tor for the last war we were nere in for pretty pretty nearly a hundred years to conic comee I 1 I 1 all our present troubles arise from that war we would be the last to hold back if any any foreign power threatened our national interests tried to take tahe away from us anything which we have got we are not pacifists paci fists but we think that all the talk about america getting gettin into this little scrap between heti een two ina allow geow races 19 irresponsible nonsense |