The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-25

IF war should occur, it will pro-
coed from commercial differences on
the Pacific
"Of course. That is why. in our
private affairs, we endeavor to keep
the peace. But there are policemen
on the streets, and restrictive laws.
1.-The japanese have a number of
excellent merchant marine steamers
everywhere on the Pacific, which
would serve as an auxiliary naval
force. The Japanese are talking
peace; so are we. but nothing would
cement our cordial relations so eff
fectively as a naval police demonstra-
ton on the Pacific said Admiral
Dewey, significantly.
IF the fleet goes will it mean that
the United States viii seize the bal
ance of the power in the Pacific?"
Il have been rported as saying this,
but 1 never did. I never said anything
about the balance of power, because
that is a measure far too delicate for
accurate knowledge at the present
There should be no delay. however,
in sending our fleet to the Pacifc?'
Il hope the president will do SO as
soon as possible. 1t is a long trip, and
there is nothing to police on this coast
at present. ,,a-,.. s,,i,,s
for their navy?
stand they are placing the usual orders
for improved naval, equipment in Eng
land exclusively
Hale's Theory of the Display.
AS chief CT the general navy board,
Admiral Dewey has been held lesponsl-
BILE for advising the movement or thc
fleet to the Pacific, in the interest OF IN
creasing the navy, of compelling an ap.
propriation for more ships. The chler
accuser IS his old friend and neighbor,
Senator Hale of Maine.
Senator Hale at one time ran the
= a
man of tremendous ability, whose inf1u-
ence with the senate is greater than the
presidents, almost l see by the papers
that Senator Hale imputes certain mo
tives to me that 1 never had. He says
that there is really no reason to ADVISE
sending a fleet to the Pacific, EXCEPT as
a scheme of the general navy board ID
compel increased expenditures
There would be no personal adVan-
tage to me in such scheme. The presl-
dent asked me a while ago 20 INFORM
him if we were ready in case OF oiIu-
cuIties in the Pacific, and l replled tnat
the navy was in a condition to meet any
emergency providing a sufficient notce
was given for the fleet to reach its des-
tination. 1t would take about ninety
day for the ships to reach there.
Admiral Dewey seemed to perceive 10
necessary.
The cause of the delay in sending the
fleet. which is the nucleus of any as
turbing instinct that may be left, is
based upon the uncertainty u lhe anu
Japanese feeling in California
what might happen after the feet
started and during the journey or tne
ships to the coast is the perplexing fact
in the whole matter; ,,, ,,a5 |
China Is Japan's Economic salvation;
a'No man in the world wants to lmperiii
said said the ADMIRAL, land say now. quite
apart from my private opinion, that l
desire peace, and indorse peacs i4+GrI, e oS |
the Pacific is peculiarly a VicI1i I,,o % |
alarming possibilities. let US influence
calm and confident relations there ps |
orient Our fleet in the Pacific would be !
a symbol of effective peace"
The Philippine Islands dread Japanese
THE island of Luzon, where Manila is,
seemed to me to be inhabited by Japan
csc types Luzon is, of course, the most i
group. perhaps because of this fact The |
Japanese are 2 wonderful people-but the
Chinese are their economic salvation
THE pursers in the Japanese navy are
nearly all Chinese. whose integTlify seems aS !
the financial institutions of Japan en- /
ploy Cinnamon to handle their funds"
You had an opportunity to study the
Japanese when you were on the Pacific ?'' /
Il was in Nagasalzi only a short while /
did meet the Atikado. how
ever. and during my half hour CONVEX
sation with him I was more Impressed
than with the Emperor of Japan him
SELF @a
1t was significant that the Japanese
were not placing any orders for ship
in the United States. although
American firms were doing business with
them in their shipyards abroad
Admiral Dewey insists that we should
police the Pacific, and as Chief of the
General Navy Board he is not giving all
the available reasons at his command.
In the meantime he is absorbing the
pleasant fiction of Japanese ideals in THE
Breath of the Gods
AS the adnirars unpublished dispatch
10 Washington IN 1898 was a prophecy
we'll fulfilled, his advice ten years later to
send the fleet to the Pacific may mean I
information we know not of.
ST met young De Peyster of the upper
vet the other day and he looked me square