The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

, and London that the alliance has Rus sia in view. When Russia was in hor full strength the British had never found it necessary to form an alliance to protect India. When the new An glo-Japanese treaty was entered Into Russia lay prostrate upon the earth, her army and navy permeated by mu- tiny, her people rent by revolution, If there was but little occasion for l Great Britain to form the alliance against Russia. there was even less for
 Japan. The first treaty had proved atii- ] ply adequate for Russia when Russia had fleet at Port Arthur nearly as l large as the Japanese Navy and an
 other fleet on the way larger than the | Japanese Navy. With these fleets an-
 initiated, except those ports that were captured by the Japanese, with no prospect of Russian fleet appearing l in the Far East for generation. N 1J l should Japan seek the cooperation of the Mistress of the Seas to keep Rus- | sia in cheeky
 The suggestion is ridiculous.
 The new alliance Is not needed for | Germany. The German Army ana Navy
 have to be kept at home. The German government has openly avowed that 1t l realizes that Japan can throw the Cur
 mans out of Kiao-Chao any day 1t do l cides to do so ss e
 ! The new alliance is not needed for | France. Cochin China Is as helpless as
 kiao- -Chao. It is not needed for Italy
 or any other European powers.
 Anybody but a blind man can sec 1 that the new Anglo-Japanese treaty, I cast iron alliance. offensive and defen- 1 sive, is directed against America. l The purposes of this alliance are not l difficult to discover. On the part of 1 Japan 1t is the first important move tc l isolate America. It forestalls and pre- vents any possible aid America might l nave hoped to receive from Great Brit ain on account of the ties of race blood and language. With the great 1 British naval base at Hong Kong, be- l tween Japan and the Philippines, and with a strong British fleet In the Ori- l ent, British aid to America is the one l thing Japan would fear the most
 The alliance is intended to reduce I the division of the American heet he- | tween the Atlantic and Pacific. and f thus to insure the superiority of the | Japanese fleet in this latter ocean, the | great desideratum of Japan.
 It insures financial aid. for which 1 Japan had need in pushing her grsa.
 war preparations and in prosecuting l the war.
 On the part of the British. the ps,r 1 poses are equally plain. The Japanese | are fast becoming supreme in determ- 1 ming the commercial policies of China and the Far East generally. They can 1 insure and have doubtless promised 1 the British commercial ascendency. n l the YangtJe valley sphere of tnhi-
 ence" the British have coveted for gen ! erations. The alliance would insure the 1 elimination Of America. their great
 connection, from the Oriental markets
 and give to the British a partnership | in the commercial supremacy of the l Pacinc. ez 1At sys It may be advanced that the British
 would refrain from war with the Unit
 ed States on account of the proximity | of Canada Thorough examination will | take away the force of this assertion. | In the case of the British alone. Cam | ada is open to invasion. but with the
 British in alliance with strong m:h- | tary power Canada becomes base TOT I the invasion of the United States. l previous investigation showed mat Ja- | nan in control of the Pacific Ocean could occupy the Pacific Slope and hold 1 it in the face of all the military exer- l tion we might make. The situation would be far more critical in the case l of A combined invasion from the Pacific | and from Canada at the some time.
 Both oceans would be quickly swept i free Sf American ships. GafifSfass las | about 55,000 trained men with which to keep us in check at first; then the British would pour trained troops into l Canada faster than we could arm, | eouip and train troops in the Eastern | States--at least for one or two years. The British have a standing army I of 2S6O0O and total enectiVes | amounting to 750,000 men. She has
 nractically an inexhaustible merchant
 marine with which to supply both
 oceans with transports. She would | draw upon India and the colonies. The
 bordes of Hindus would join the hordes 1 of the Japanese and Chinese, and from
 the occupation of the Pacific Slope they
 rouId soon overflow across the trans l canadian railroads to supply all the
 men needed for a general invasion of