The times., 1898-06-05
THE DESTINY Of NATIONS
1t Is Passing Into the Control
of glO-SaXOnS.
TIE WESTERN MAP REVISED
The War Department Has Issued II
Chart Showing British Territorial
Ambitions as Focused From the
Western Hemispb
Co-operation Necessary.

While a new civilization invades the
East to write the opening chapters of an
other and more modern cycle of human
progress in the dust of decayed Oriental
grandeur the world views with touch
of awe the passing of the Chinese EN-
pire, witnesses with apprehension the lust
of Europe's powers for conquest and ac-
QUESTION of new territory, and reflects
with misgivings upon history's story of
the rise and fall of nations.
But the world is in no mood to dwell
long upon such reflections. Peace hangs
over Europe like a morning cobweb,
swayed by the breeZes of dissension and
seemingly eager to snap the silver thread
that anchors 1t to earth. Frontiers bris-
tie with bayonets; armies of invasion
await the words of command that shall
change the destinies of empires repub
lies. kingdoms and dynasties, and every
inch of newly-acquired territory is held
under the frown of cannons.
And from out of this chaos of thought
arises the queries: Shall the riches of
the Pacific be divided between England
and America? Shall the two great Anglo
Saxon nations claim for their posterity
the eastern territory now inviting the
grasp OF conquest?'
This thought is by no means new. 1t
is born of the evolution of nations 1t Is
emphasized by the spectacle of the Latin
races arrayed against the Anglo SaXons.
The world is pecring into a vista of desti-
ny that widens and widens in the dis
tance until the brain grows dizzy while
contemplating the future, but the end
fades away and loses itself in the uncer-
tain mists on times horizon.
The War Department has but recently
issued remarkable map, which presents
faint glimpse OF the scope of England :
territorial interests as they diverge from
the Western Hemisphere. This map was
draughted for official purposes. and has
never been given publication. Con-
templating il one grasps the significance
of that Anglo-SaXon alliance which has
been called a vision of dreaming states
men, and sees the ambitions Of nation
focused upon the future of the East.
The fact is not generally known that at
Vancouver. England has erected the
strongest fortifications in the world, bar
ring, perhaps, Gibraltar.
The world knows very little of the
strength or character of these fortifica-
tions. and their exact location is known to
but few. yet the British have spent many
millions of dollars in building and Der
| fecting them with the result that Van
couver is the best fortified port in the
world
From here the map dFaughter has di-
verged two lines, one TO Sidney, on the
east coast of Australia, and the other to
Aukland. New Zealand. both countries
in British possession.
From Nicaragua where the Western
Hemisphere is to be divided by the great
est canal in the world. three lines diyerge
one to Yokohama, another to Yang-tse-
kiang and third to Hong Kong, all in
China and the last named practically in
possession of England.
Far out in the Pacific Ocean these five
diverging lines cross, and in the center
Of the intersection lie the Sandwich Isl
ands and Hawaii. Further east the lines
diverging from the proposed Nicaraguan
Canal cross the Philippine Islands now
held by the United States.
The significance of the map now begins
to be appreciated by the reader. AS sat
ed exclusively in The Times Friday MORN
ing. England is anxious that this coun-
try shall retain and permanently occupy
the Philippines, and has exerted her
diplomatic energies TO this end.
When Hawaii and the Sandwich ISL
ands have been annexed. with the Phil
ippines in our possession. and after the
Nicaraguan Canal has been accomplish
ed. the Pacific will be under the absolute
control of Britain and the United States.
4 he Only ld.ll DDSSe6SlOIS LHtn TtUIGlIl-
ing in the ocean will be the Tuamotu or
Low Archipelago and the Loyalty Islands,
which are accredited to France.
England looks 10 the East for an eXten-
sion of her possessions and counts upon
an alliance with America for moral sup
port, not only in backing these claims of
conquest but also in what now appears
TO be the inevitable conflict of nations
between the Latin and Anglo-SaXon races.
She homes dictate terms when fhp di-
vision of the East is at hand and TO ac-
complish this IL is desirable, if not abso-
lutely necessary, that the Pacific shall be
under the control of the two great Eng
disappearing nations.
Leaving the Pacific to the future and
its possibilities look at the Atlantic. There
is no doubt that the present war with
Spain will result in the United States as
suming control if not taking permanent
possession of Porto Rico and Cuba. Eng
land now claims the Bermudas, the Ba-
hamas and all but two of the islands in
the Windward or Caribbean group. These
two exceptions are Martinique and Quad
aloupe, both in the possession of France
Haiti is an independent republic, and is
not necessarily considered in saying that
at the termination of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war the Western half of the Atlantic
will pass into the control of England and
the United States.
Grouping these facts together one must
pause to reflect, and voluntarily confess
that the destiny of nations is about TO be
determined. The map of the world is
about to be revised. The possibilities of
the future are too wide in scope and too
grave in their attendant responsibilities
to be considered as a single issue The
accomplishment of what lies before the
American people must come as an evolu-
tion of public sentiment. and not as the
result of a hastily defined foreign policy.
And yet the disposition of the Philip
pine problem must either close the gate
way to an acquisition of foreign terri
tory. or insert the opening wedge of a
national policy that will violate the fun
damental principles of this republic, and
set aside the doctrines Of our forefathefs.
The question must soon be settled, and
until 1t is England hopes for a step from
US that viii make possible, not to say i'm
perative, an Angio-SaXon alliance, and
place the Western Hemisphere and the
Orient practically within the control of
the two greatest nations on the globe.
Not possibility set forth here is i'm
possible. from the Nicaraguan Canal
which is the least uncertain of all, per-
haps. to the annexation of the Sandwich
Islands and the Philippines. The future
is not left to itself; it is being made.