The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-01-01
JAPAN CANNOT MAKE
WAR UPON US
She Hasn't the Money and Can.
not Borrow Any.
OUR NAVY MUCH STRONGER
Besides, 1000 Miles of Ocean Inter.
venes--And Even in the I'm.
probable Event of England AS
sisting Her, 1t Would Fail.

Washington, D. C.-The Admins
tration is not concerned over reports
from Havana that five Japanese have
been taking measurements and photo
graphs of the fortificationsof 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
| Notifications, both here and in the
outlying possessions, just as the
United States has measurements and
| plans of the Notifications of other
| countries. That is what general
| staffs are for
So far as Japan's alleged desire to
go to war with the United States is
| concerned, there isn't clear mind in
| che Administration that does not
| scout the idea. Japan cannot go to
war with anybody. She is in debt a
| sillion dollars, with no place to bor-
'0w more.
The idea that England would as
| sist Japan in an assault on this coun-
.ry is preposterous. The people who
have given study to the problem adj
NIT, for the sake of argument the
superstition that England would join
with Japan in concerted movement
IN 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
INF hn VII,
| at the facts as they are, going further
| N the argument, concede the bottling
| up. Then they point out that the
| United States is the only country in
| The world sufficient to itself, and If
! England tried the experiment of
| oottling up this country she would
tut herself off from very large pro-
| portion of her own food supplies.
Meantime the United States, in
che extreme contingency that it lost
it's fleets, would build other fleets and
20 out and regain it's prestige The
United States has money, men, food
and everything else to maintain a
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
lean living who thinks the United
States would ever capitulate in cir
3umstances 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
back, and more, too, by force of ANS.
OF course these conjectures are al
most fantastic, but the statements
! hat call them out are the basis of the
talk that has been going on 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
If that country.
So far as Japan herself is con-
eerned she does not want fight with
anybody. Her public debt is almost,
If not quite, as large as that of the
| United States, and her territory is
| about as big as the State of Califor-
mia. The greatest problem Japan
has now is, not to conquer any coun-
try, but to provide for the rapid in
crease in Japanese population, which
Increase is 100000 year.
Japan's navy, when you analyze 1t,
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
Japan bringing an invading foroe of a
size to do any particular damage
1000 miles has its grotesque features
that apparently do not appeal to tho
people who are continually finding
war clouds over Nippon way.