The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
PAPER V.


 that feverish activity prevails in Ja- pan in accumulating war materials. such activity as is seen only when a nation Is on the verge of war. Exist ing establishments are being enornl- Dusly enlarged. new establishments are being founded, steel and iron works and armor plate and torpedo factories, shipyard el iipments. docks, building plants, gun factories. powder and high explosive factories. small arm and ann intuition equipment factories.
 These establishments at home are working full force overtime, night and day, and tens of millions of dollars worth of additional war material has been ordersd in Europe.
 Hundr sds of millions of dollars of ready specie money have been stored up. The merchant marine has been greatly expanded for over sea transport service. The Chinese are being taught, trained and organized in preparation for drawing upon the combined re- sources of both countries.
 It was pointed out further that these warlike preparations can have no Eu- ropean or Asiatic power as the object i've, but are directed against America.
 In great wars. however. naval and military preparations are not the only preparation: diplomatic preparations also are required. The great conquer ors of history, like Napoleon, Caesar. Alexander, Ia nerlaae, were as great in diplom icy as in direct war itself, and their greatness and success lay largely in their mastery of the diplomatic fac tors of preparation Frequently the outcome of war is settled absolutely by the success or failure of diplomatic efforts to secure the co-operation of other nations
 foid--fo bring about as far as possible the Isolation of the enemy and to se- rure as far as possible the advantageous e0-operation of other nations in naval, miljtary, financial and moral support.
 Japan being an island Kingdom. her success or failure in any foreign war will always hinge upon the control of the sea The invasion of Manchurial for instance. depends upon Japanese control of the sea. The issue of the war with Russia was not settled by the brilliant victories of Liaoyang and Mukden. but bv the naval battle of Tusshina. Japan realized full well that Rrssan control of the sea would mean Russan victory. Russia for fff- teen years has been in dual alliance with France. the second naval power in the world. An absolute prerequisite for war with Russia. therefore was the coop ,ration of a strorg naval pow CT.
 Japanese diplomacy did not have to look far for a field to find such a DOW er The first navel power of the world was ready ct hand and waiting for an oppoitr nifty 10 back third power against Russia, to check the advance of this rival emoire and weaken this hereditary enemy. particularly when their a.king would not involve her own fArtf.fpatfon. The first Anglo 1apaness alliance was readily arranged, by the terms of which each of the con tractfng powers could come to the as- l. -kA N other became engaged with more than one power: in other words. if France saoinad Russia. Great Britain would join Japan This alliance e1iminated france nnd secured the isolation of Russia. This completed Japan's dfp' omatic prep aratluns.F The naval and military prep nrations were already complete. The T2usso- Japanase war therefore, tol- 5ovved close upon the heels of the Am xlo-Japanese treaty.
 war between Russia and Japan was inevitable and would have come some aav but 1t is certain that Japan. with e,,t fhe co-bperation of the British ,ro,,1d not have taken the aggressive S,,rtne tf,e continuance of the Franco -. allianca The British, there fore. are absolutely responsible TOT 4he war as it came. The nrst Anslo- seesce as it's purpose, was vital war Y, ,,sasure. Such, likewise. is the nature es fhe second Anglo-Japanese alliance. .,a1v in existence and extending till now zs,E Tsis treaty modifies the first tyastv. SO that now the British must join the Japanese if , they ons eeGome Cst;or ih-
 xvhat nation Is Japan's objective Tn s.r,ainr this new alliance? Evidently < "a great nation that has no alli- nrcA with. other nations. for the first s~satv would have been adequate for < natiou with guch alliances. There Is sut one great nation without alliances s--America