The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-01-03
CANNOT MAKE
WAR Upon us
Sic Hasn't the Money and Can
rot Borrow Any.
OUR NAVY MUCH STRONGER
BESIDES, 1000 Miles of Ocean Inter-
venes-And Even i'm the I'M
probable Event of England As
sistinG Her, 1t Would Fail.

Washington, D. C.-The Adminis-
tration is not concerned over reports
from Havana that five Japanese have
been taking measurements and photo
graphs of the fortificationso Of Havana.
The fact is the Government rather.
expects this sort of thing. 1t is we'll
known that other countries have
measurements and plans Of all the
Qualifications, both here and in he
outlying possessions, just as the
United States has measurements and
plans OF the ~fortiicatlons of other
countries. That is what general
stats re for.
So far as Japan's alleged desire to
go to wac with the United States is
concerned, there isn't a clear mind in
the Administration that does not
scout the idea. Japan cannot go to
war with anybody. She is in debt 3,
billion dollars, with no place to bor-
row more. g
The idea that England would as
siSt Japan in an assault on this
try is preposterous. The people who
nave SIfCn 0IuOy " IhC pa ObAOA IA
.uit, for the sake of argument, the
s~unposition that England would join
witt Japan in a concerted movement
on both the Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts of the United States. Then
what? They might bottle up this
country, although there would be an
argument on the Atlantic Coast and
another on the Pacific before that
haDnened. But the people who look
at the facts as they are, going further
in the argument, concede the bottling
up. Then they point out that h
United States is the only country in
the world sufficient to itself, and Elf
ENGLAND tried the experiment OF
ybottling up this country she would
Gu. herself off from a very large pro-
| portion of her own food supplies.
Meantime the United States. In
the extreme contingency that it lost
its fleets, would build other fleets and
60 nut aud regain its prestige. The
United States has money, men. food
and everything else to maintain q
| placid existence with all the fleets of
all the seas on it's coasts, and would
also Immediately go across the border
and seize Canada, which IS the choic-
est bit OF suburban real estate Great
Britain has. There isn't an Amer
Jean living who thinks the United
States would aver capitulate in cir
cumstances like these, and there isn't
an American living who doesn't know
that. even If the Philippines and
Porto Rico and ports in Alaska and,
sea coast cities were taken, the United
States would eventually get them all
ba"k, and more, too, by force of arms.
o. course these coniectures are al
most fantastic, but the statements
that call them out are the basis of the
talk that has been going or for the
past six months of an invasion of this
country by Japan, and the theory that
Great Britain is the hard and fast ally
of hat country.
So far as Japan herself is con-
cerned she does not want a fight with
anybody. Her public debt is almost.
it not quite, as large as hat of the
United States, and her territory is
about as big as the State of Califor-
nie. The greatest problem Japan
has now is, not to conquer any oun
try, but to provide for the rapid in
crease in Japanese population, which
increase is 100000 a year.
Japan's navy, when you analyZe, it,
is not to be compared in any way
with any half of the American navy.
The alarmists say that Japan's navy
is in the Pacific and the navy of the
United States is not. That is perfect
ly true, but that portion of the United
! States navy which might be needed
in the Pacific would be sent there.
Furthermore, the proposition of
Janan bringing On Invading force of a
size to do AE particular damage
1000 miles hac It's grotesque features
thai apparently do not appeal to the
people who are continually finding
war clouds over Ninnon WAY.