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Show THE DEMAND ON CHINA. t&'ltuH The world can now see what would have hap- tf!Y tiBI pened when the Allies invaded China, had not a i jf fl contingent of the army of the United States been fL 'fH along. The country would have been dismem- - lliH bered and partitioned out among tne powers. The lB same thought is behind the insistance of all those jj a 'rmW powera that the indemnity which was assessed ,'lii,i" ' 'B against China shall be paid in gold. The hope is t ', JH that China will not be able to pay and will thus h'vti'jB supply an excuse for those cormorants to seize mil tK her territory. Their land hunger Is Insatiable. l I'M IB Except for the shadow of the Monroe Doctrine H'eftSB over them the same kind of work would now be ri' I'B going on in Venezuela. The power of the United i?i lilB States is their chief est concernment and they are w 9 jjK seeking for new stragetic points for their com- W'filllB merce. In the case of China a wonderful oppor- 1 i ! K tunity would be open for the United States if the lu, H smW President and Congress would rise to the situa- $ ''V'jMrn tion. China is a mighty empire and her resources al t i'TH are almost limitless. She possesses, too, one-' tfA sB' fourth of the world's population, a fourth more w tWWJmm than all Europe. ?'H.uiiK If the United States would loan her the money" t&lB'fS' B to pay the indemnity, then agree with her upon H&jl fm jH a ratio for silver as compared with gold, then ji W H lend her $100,000,000 in silver annually for twenty- fljl :1H five years, that one-fourth of the big world's work- w 1 ffjB ers would, in part, at least, be working to enrich FlfiilB the United States, and China and the Philippines If MnfilB would give to the commerce of the United States b m TB the full dominion of the Pacific. We believe the i!4 !JB statesmen of Europe realize that fact now and J IB tat. ' lB that the thought behind the joint demand for pay- (Jl mJB ment of the indemnity In gold, comes of the con- I'MlMiB viction that they must get the land now if ever, l-filt'sIB that in twenty-five years more a request of the JiM'SaB United States will be equivalent to a demand. We jB ! can realize the anxiety of them all, save Eng- iMlllfB land. She has a new great empire in Africa, Aus- 1M 'ff'lgfl tralasia is another empire in extent. She, through 1KhWH her Canadian colony, has more land on this con- y ffl EfH tinent than the total area of the United States; f ifff qiiM will' nil filial she has fields enough for her people for a thou- BiHl iIHH sand years to come, but" the world knows that ffij NiflM when a game of land-grabbing is on England has ISllrPiE both sleeves stuffed with marked cards. EG K ,' m But Germany, Austria, Italy, the Slav and wk m Scandanavlan states, because of their cramped M jj' J environments, heavy taxation and the exactions mm MM needed to keep their armies and navies up to the 11't'sl standard, are losing people by emmigration, at a Mm 'm rate which every year amounts to a host, and the Mm Hm greater portion of these all gravitate to the Unit- RlKilff ed States. The drain upon them is a steady rein- ;l forcement to us, and no wonder our country Is ! iKJf In their visions, taking on collbssal proportions. Hi nil? if IHIi am It wi Then all her new fields are exhausted; they can H'rlliS only cast longing eyes to the helpless giant of M.HbB the Orient and the weak states of Spanish Amer- nnHfl ica. That fact Is what makes the blockade of Hpflsfl Venezuelan ports and prompts the demand for mm B3h gold payments from prostrate China. Hi SB .. fiflfl |