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Show II Vanishing War Clouds B j III A S THE FLEElT reached New Zealand, the Co- K ra lonial Premier of New Zealand one day m 'jjji said: "The day will come when a great m Wi fight will be necessary for the supremacy of the ! $1 white race In the Pacific, and when this time H comes Great Britain can have the assistance of 1 the American fleet, and the two nations will be i found fighting1 shoulder to shoulder." H l I We do not believe that. Wo believe, if such B if J a thing wore to come, a fight of the brown B 'ijtfif and yellow races against the Caucasian, that B jilif England and the United States would be found B l fighting side by side, but we do not anticipate B 8jJjJ any trouble of that kind, especially if our coun- B fi try does It., hity and continues to build battle- B mil ships until she will have a sufficient navy on both B Sjl coasts. The thing which is going to trouble B wfl most will be the competition of the brown and B MJ tf yellow races. They are fast fitting themselves B H to make the ordinary goods of this world, and B H i when their talent is perfected they, because of B fb '. their cheap labor on land and sea, can deliver B ,; U those goods at prices which will practically shut B ! :' the white race out of business. There Is where B a tl16 clash will come if ever. Japan has driven B jlffl English and German ships off all the southern E - 5 i coast of Asia. They cannot compete anywhere B i,!$ ?t Japanese ships so long as Japan can get H i ! J j coal in her own coutnry. So cheap is that coal B l'jj tnat our transPorts coming back from Manila, B ' I m i often stop at Nagasaki and take on coal enough B l nt ony' "-0 carry them to San Francisco, but to B i . f 9 ' carry them back to the Philippines. That cheap B h j coal, in connection with the small wages that I id i , Japan pays her employes, it seems to us, will close out from all the ports of the Pacific the manufactured products of the United States and Great Britain. That may lead to friction one of these days and war, but certain it is that Japan will never go to war .with the United States unless she has to, and as for China, if China was In sore trouble today her appeal would be to the United States, because she knows that our country does not want any of her land, and that it is due to our cou ntry that her territory was not divided long ago among Japan and two or three of the powers of western Europe. When we look over what Japan has done in fifty years and then try to- grasp what she and China will do in the next fifty years, one can see that a mighty power is growing up there, a mighty economic power, that will put the world to its trumps to stand off. And that is one reason rea-son why we think our government should be getting get-ting concessions from South American states and encourage American capital to build roads there, guaranteeing the interest if necessary that our people might possess that country, and with a peaceable conquest, finally take control. Finally, as we look at it the Hague congress is progressing in its work, and our belief is that twenty years hence it will be impossible for any civilized power to bring on any war at the danger of being met on the battlefield by the combined hosts of all other civilized powers. This itself would tend to make nations peaceful and to realize that as communications have been quickened, the human race, after all, Is but one family and it is becoming Incumbent upon them to maintain universal peace. |