Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — JAPAN EAGER TO FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

JAPAN EAGER TO FIGHT.

Would War with Husain if the Had Sufficient Cash, Russia and Japan have been on the verge of war several times within the lust five years, since Russia interfered in 1805 itpd prevented Japan IT mu enjoying the fruits of the victory over China, but they were never so near hostilities tis now, and iu tfre opinion of sveH-ht-formed diplomatists would be lighting Ibis summer if Japan could get the money to pay the powder bill. It so happens that the Mikado's cabinet and parliament are nt odds, particularly the house of lords, which refuses to vote the military supplies desired by Count lto, the prime minister, or authorize a loan, which is necessary to furnish the sinews of w ar. Great Britain is equally embarrassed mid cannot interfere iu .Manchuria because her fighting force is occupied in South Africa and her recent experience down ill that country has been so expensive that the taxpayers of England cannot stand any greater strftin. Arnold Foster, secretary of the admiralty, in explaining tile navy estimates in parliament the other day. showed that it cost 15 shillings per capita for every man, woman and child iu the united kingdom to maintain British supremacy upon the seas, without taking into consider a *,on the expenses of the army and oilier branches of the government. Tliff is equivalent to mi average tax of $5.73 ‘or the British navy alone, while the avel'ege in the United States for all branches of oar government, even with the $1,500,000,000 appropriations of the current year, is $0.59 a year, and before the Spanish war was only about $5. A Washington correspondent says there is no doubt that Great Britain, Germany and Japan have vigorously protested against the Manchurian treaty, both to the Chinese and the Russian governments, and have notified the Chinese envoys- at Pekin that if Russia is given Manchuria each of them will expect an equal slice of the empire. Japan is particularly determined in opposition to Russian aggression, and if matters go much further Count lto will cal.l for a dissolution of the present parliament and appeal to the people for the election of another in the hope of getting one that will be more willing to vote money for war purposes.