The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-20
America ls Sleeping on Volcano
 By yCapta Rihno Peoron Hobson S

4T Gadsden purchase. Alaska; Japanese
 ~n only in war--Ko- req, Liaotung. Saghalien, Formosa-
 Both nations have now expanded oyer the Pacific Ocean. By wonder fhi destiny, Hawaii. Guam, the Phii- ippine Islands and Samoa the outposts needed, have falls (into Americas lap. and the nation is Wconsciously moving out to occupy that ocean in the twen- tzeth century as 1t moved out and oc- eunied the American continent in the nineteenth century. by carrying peace and plenty in constructing the Pana- ma canal and supplying to the myriads of the orient the great staples they need particularly the greatest of all. the universal staple of cotton cloth ing.
 This American expansion over the Pacinc will bless all nations with in- stitutions at home built upon the con- viction that before the law all men should have equal rights and equal opportunities.
 Americas policies abroad must nec- equal rights and equal opportunities for all the na- tions. Our greatest hope is that the Cubans and the Filipiuos may speed- fly become self governing people. Our only demand in China Is for an "oper door" fair chance and no favor.
 In the added prosperity and general growth of commerce that would at. tend the progress of America's influ- ence in the Orient, the legitimate in- terests of all nations would be pro- noted.
 On this sold rock foundation of ius. uce and far@play China would rejoice and add billions to the worlds com merce, the nations would reconcile their differences. and the two great races yellow and white, would meet as friends to help each oti,er. The twen- heth century would then witness a marvellous advance in civilization. be- yond anything yet dreamed of in the, hearts of men,
 Americans, however. are not con- scious or this onward movement If expansion. They were unconscious during the expansion across the conti, nent. And ex pan sfon by growth is nat-' uraily unconscious. Many thoughtful men have disquieting feeling. a kind of instinct. that our occupation of the Philippine Islands has thrown us into che vortex of world politics and is ex- posing us to some lurking danger. some realize that the time was ripe TOT this great producing nation to e5r- pand across the Pacific Ocean to the great consuming nations of the Orient; Few realize that our sphere has &C., euaIiy so expanded until we are now knocktng at the door of China; a very tew realize that Japan stands sentinel along the China coast protesting to approve the .open doorT but afa~inw a sword to keep the door closed to fine white men; almost none realize that Japan has also expanded across the Pacific Ocean, that the two~spheres are oyer,apped and that one or the other must recede
 In Jar m, on the other hand there fla Full realization of these facts Ex- pansion by transformation. in contrast with expansanien by growth. IS essentially lrs .Hseious It fs in tlre very consciousness of great events that the stransfornaation has its origin. s.st2 eva Nrss -I
 EInergin~ from 500 years..of feudaf- ism and endiess local wars it was nat urai for the Bohiesa who through many centuries have held an absolute leader shin of the masses of Japan. to recog- ni7e tie superior stren1th of Western methods and to exalt and exaggerate the rsrt that war plays in modern civ tti~ation. t s.g Ss.a.ts ., -q
 The overthrow of the Shogun because of his utter inability to resist the prea- sure of the fereiep pewers rallied all the nobtes around the Mikado. All be- atate and all differences were sub- rrArged in a new national impulse fa offer a united front to the outside