The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-12-10
A War With
Germany
GEN. MACARTHUR PREDICTS ONE
OCEAN ITS THEATER.

The following is "A summary of the
views of General A. a. Macarthur re-
gardng the Importance of the National
Guard of Hawaii The views were eX-
pressed bv Gen. Macarthur, who is in
command of the Department of Cali
fornia, which includes Hawaii. at
conference with Col j. w. Jones, COM
mandant Of the First Regiment, n. G.
H.. and Col j. H. Soper, Adjutant Cen
eral of the National Guard of Hawaii.
The summary thus presented is in the
form of a letter to Col. Soper written
by Col. Jones himself. The letter was
afterwards transmitted to Governor
Carter.
THE General in the course of his
remarks. to show the importance of
having a strong and efficient National
Guard in this Territory, stated in part
as follows:
THAT the Pacific will be the theater
of future commercial and military
struggles between nations, and these
islands will be in the center of all such
contests for supremacy.
"That history shows us that time has
shifted the theatre of such operations
from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
where we have seen within the last
few months the Monroe doctrine strain
ed by the Venezuela affair when Eng
land got into strange company through
Balfour being persuaded by William Oh
Germany to take a part therein, in the
face of the loudly pro aimed friend
ship existing between England and the
! United tates, with regard to which
| (vhile there is no question as to its
| existence) it has been shown to be in
| the power of one man to set 1t aside at
will for a probable or even possible
supposed advantage to be derived by
| his country, in total disregard of the
known wishes of the governing class
and the masses of the people.
/ THAT the Pan-Germanic doctrine
which is being spread throughout the
world, being fostered and propagated
by the Imperial Government in every
possible way, is strong and getting
stronger wherever the German people
settle, even among Germans who have
I been citizens of the United States for
years, and in connection herewith one
| fact cannot be overlooked, to wit, the
| few Germans in the American Army IN
the war with SPAIN so few indeed that
| the presence of a German was noted as
being a rare occurrence.
In view of the foregoing, and of the
| fact that the theatre of operations is
! changing gradually into the Pacific:
|
very rapidly and emigrating in large
numbers, the tide of emigration being
directed by the German Government
toward South America; that the man
/ ufacturing products of the German
Empire overbalance the consumption
/ so that an outlet or market has to be
| obtained for the surplus, and in view
of the known policy of the Emperor to
acquire colonies which will provide
markets for such reproduction. and
places to which the tide of emigration
may be directed, thereby Strengthening
the Fatheriand; and in view of the
further fact that throughout all South
American countries the Germans are
advancing in commercial ! power and
prestige every day, the conclusion
seems inevitable that the interests of
Germany in South America, where
there are today large colonies of Ger
mans, in numbers being in the hun
dreds of thousands, presage another
testing and straining of the Monroe
doctrine and in all probability con-
test of arms between that power and
the United States in the near future, in
which event no one can now forecast
the attitude of England or any other
| European power, and it is therefore, the
duty of the Federal Government to
make itself as strong as possible and
be able to take care of iteslf in any
| emergency.
THAT no nation or number of ma
tons would be in a position to make an
| attack on the Pacific Coast states with
out first capturing these Islands, rs
they would otherwise leave their line of