Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-03
JAPAN AT BAY
Idn't Make War on the United
 States or Anybody

A Nashington dispatch to the New York World says:
 Tie administration is not concerned ,yer Exports from Havana that five Jap ,nese have been taking measurements md Photographs of the Notifications of Iavana. The fact is, the government ather expects this sort of thing. It is yell known that other countries have neasurements and plans of all the for Iiiieations, both here and in the outly- ng Possessions, just as the United States has measurements and plans of he Notifications of other countries, That Is what general staffs are for
 As far as Japan $ alleged desire to 10 to war with the United States is eoncerncd, there isn [ a clear mind in the Administration that does not scout the idea. Japan cannot go to war with anybody. She is in debt a billion dol lars. with no place to borrow more.
 The idea that England would assist Japan in an assault on this country is preposterous. The people who have given study to the problem admit, for the sake of argument, the supposition that England would join with Japan in eoncerted movement on both the At antie and Pacific coasts of the United .tates. Then what! They might bot lie n D this country. although there wonl1 be an argument both on the At lantir coast and on the Pacific before that would happen. But the people who look.slt the facts as they are, going, fur, ther into the argument, concede the bot ting mp. Then they point out that the United States is the only country in the world sufficient to itself, and if England tried the experiment of bottling up this eountry she would cut herself off from q sery large proportion of her own food supp! les.
 Meantime. the United States, in the extreme contingency that it lost its fleets. would build other fleets and go out and regain it's prestige, The United Statcs has money, men, food and every thing else to maintain a placid existence with all the fleets of all the seas on it's ecasts, and would also immediately go across the border and seize Canada, which is the choicest bit of suburban real estate Great Britain has. There is not an American living who thinks the United States would capiulate in cir cumstances like these, and there ism f an Aherican living who does not know that, even if the Philippines and Porto Rico and ports in Alaska and seaeoast ...t q #a.#.a would eventually get them all back, and more, too. by force of arms.
 Of course, these coniectures are all
 ost Fantastic. but the statements that
 llthem out are the basis of the talk ,that has been going on for the past six months of an invasion of the country by Apan, and the theory that Great Britain is the hard and fast ally of that country.
 So far as Japan herself is concerned, she Hoes not want to fight with any 'bo1v Her public debt is almost, if not ouite. as large as that of the United States. and her territory is about as big as tho state of California. The greatest problem Japan now has is not to con quer any country, but to provide for the rapid increase in Japanese population, whieh increase is 5OO,OO0 a year.
 Japan's navy, when you analyze it, is moi to be compared in any way with any half of the American navy. The alarnlists say that Japan s navy is in the Pacific and the United States is not. That is perfectly true, but that portion of fle United States navy which might he needed in the Pacific would be sent there.
 Furthermore, the proposition of Japan bringing an invading force of size to do any particular damage 1000 miles has its grotesque features that appar enfly do not appeal to the people who arc continually finding war clouds over the Nippon way.
 The men who look at this proposition san ly admit that Japan might seize port on Alaska or on the Pacific coast, buf what would happen thenl The united States would go and get it back a1a in. Of course, it would be uncom fad able for time, but there is not aIiy doubt that it would be taken back, ana good, stiff price for rental would loo collected.