The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-12-14

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strong enough to bear that burden
multiplied by six. Good statesman
ship also forestalls not merely the
probable. but the possible. There is
doubtless more truth than fact i'm the
legend of Won Moltke, when informed
by his adjutant that the die had been
cast for war with France. The man
who. was silent in seven languages is
said to have ordered, "Third portfolio
on the fourth shelf. The same might
occur in the General STAFF of every
tirst-class nation. Possible campaigns
are already on paper, just as plans and
specifications for additional buildings
and equipment are on file in business
offices for use when the market de-
mands.
The reasoning by which NJ. Bloch
so impressed not only thel Car, but a
large international public, concurs
with many other considerations in
making war on the soil of western
Europe, or between a European nation
and the United States, with the home
territory of either as the fighting
ground, seem too remote for belief.
If Prince Henry ever again APP
proaches New York it will doubtless
be in a spirit not less amicable than
that of his.,frst visit. No American
fleet Is likely to maneuvre within
striking distance of kie or Hamburg
for any more warlike purposes than
was in evidence during last summers
amenities.
1t would be absurd to say that there
is visible probability of war between
the United States and any tirst-class
power 1t would be much more at
surb to say that war with Germany is
so impossible that measures IN pre-
vent it are needless. Great Britain
is more concerned with Excepting the
empire from falling to pieces of its
own weight than with territorial ex-
pansion or trade monopoly at our ex-
dense. Neither France, Spain, Italy
nor Russia is pursuing policy that
challenges distinctively American
claims If any phase of the Chinese
question should become casus belli,
we could hardly be drawn in until the
conflict became general. Minor cne-
mics may be ignored, but Germany re-
mains, The Germans want nothing
which they think we are entitled to
claim;but they think we claim Il great
deal that they are entitled to want.
There is nowhere such hunger as i'm
Germany for more influence where we
say Glands off," Nowhere Is there so
much outspoken opinion that the Yam
KEGS are acting dog in the manger"
part, and that they must be muzzled
The Austrian voice in the Triple Al
lance is energetic in this strain. The
Monroe Doctrine is an impertinence.
Extension of American jurisdiction
beyond seas is democratic lmpudence.
1t is display of brute force in a mass
which has no such complete character
as state that it is competent so to
use its power. The Germans are be-
, nevolenu toward us personally, but
they are jealous of us commercially
and suspicious of us politically. The
Yankee must be checked" is a senti-
ment as commonplace in Germany and
Austria as Carthage must be destroy
ed' was in Rome. One easily detects
IL In the army, tne navy, lne merchant
marine, among business men of all
classes, in the newspapers, and in ser
ious books. The extraordinary ankle
ty of official Germany to dissemble
this feeling really makes it more signi.
fcant. The only safe policy for the
United States is to proceed as though
upon a certainty that the German
Government is merely waiting its OPP
portunity to catch us unprepared and
to force surrender Of our extra-terri'
torial pretensions. Suppose our naval
programmes should lag. Suppose pos
sible allies should be otherwise engag
al Sunnosal unnthar daht wara n