Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-04
AMERICAN PERIL HELD UP AS
 SPECTER
Paris Newspaper Would Scare All Europe Over Alleged Menace to Peace of World by United States.
Special Cable to Review.) By Henri Dubois.

PARI. Aug. 3.-"Gil Blas'' the Par. issian newspaper is as anxious to de fend the Franco-Japanese Alliance as 1t is to tear down anything American and just bow is endeayoring to make it's readers believe tha: America is the greatest menace to the peace of ire world.
 In a recent editorial 1t says: "We have heard a great deal about the so-called yellow peril, but what about the American peril, which is far more immediate and worse. The yellow peril is perhaps not quite imaginary but it is so far off, so vague a3d so much depends upon circumstances be. fore it can be considered really dan gerous. that it is not disquieting
 The American peril on the other hand, is at our very door, and oa tha threshold of Japan and China. The immense number of people who form the federation of the United tates, with their strongly renewed blood, their intense vitality and their world ly ambitions constitute an economic force. which naturally and of 1eceE. sity must seek to extend themselves and they cannot extend themselves except to the detriment of other na tions
 What is true of individuals is just as true of nations. and one cannot gain, except another lose.
 Let us add that President Roosevelt with his imperial-politics his flat tery Of the masses, in whom ht
 arouses the love of adventure and tht
 greed for gold, gives to this Ameri
 can danger a concrete of actual char acter which it is well to distrust l Everywhere and at all times we hea about the intervention of the United 1 States; in politics. at Constantinople at Peking. and most recently at thu ] Hague, where she directly inspired the audacious proceedings of the pre- | tended Korean delegates.
 In another editorial which appeared
 yesterday, the same editorial writer says: After the recent fights whict have taken place in San Francisco, the sending of the American fleet into Pacific waters cannot help but arouse the alarmists. Let us look the situa tiun well in the face. The hostile feeling has become more and more pronounced in California. President Roosevelt. though undoubtedly a man
 
 man of action, finds himself paral yzed by the United tates constitution which does not allow federal author ities to interfere with the affairs ot the single states.
 The Japanese government on tht other side, however anxious it may bt to avoid a clash, cannot abandon it! people. Let us add to this the ner vousness, the public opinion in bott countries and the violent press cam | paigns. Under such dangerous con ditions the change in position of the American Naval forces takes place
 It would be impossible to imagine { | situation more inviting to the yellow newspapers and their too eager re
 porters.
 One must keep count of those cir cumstances in order not to bt alarmed by the pessimistic rumors
 which arise on all sides, but the pain still belongs to the diplomat whom some English journalist have asked his opinion and whom the atmos phere of the Hague did not seem tt inspire with pacific thoughts. This person, who says he knows | declares that both the American ant 1 Japanese government are hiding thei opinions and that the situation i
 much more grave than official circlet
 want to admit. This American dip lomat lacks the most essential quail I ty-discretion and the power of keeI I ing his tongue still. Silence is golden l and especially in critical moments.