The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-02

Epeciaa Correspondence of N. Y. Herald.
 Tokio Japan, April 2s. 19O7,-That her navy shall be more than double the size war with Russia and that her army shall be capable of mastering upon first call no less than one million trained soldiers. this qts the military program upon which Japan has set out and to the consummation of which all the resources of Jthe Island Elm pire are being marshalled. Whether this
 elaborate program is undertaken merely
 as safeguard against future possibilities
 Or is aimed at some particular nation no human outside the little particular group of elder statesmen, who are the real rulers of Japan, knows, and there is not one of fthose who would not give up his life rather
 than reveal the probable object of attack tr-if there is one usch in contemplation. European military experts who are given
 to airing their opinions in print are just now indulging in predictions of a war be- {fween Japan and the United States. The leffusions of these writers find ready publi- fcation in the British controlled press of the Orient The fact that most of the foreign newspapers published in this part of the Iworld are owned and controlled by English men is, however, well understood by the I1nteiiigent and educated classes of Japa- These that there is little likelihood of such Qualifications having any industrial influence lin shaping the better thought of Japan. But ieuch portions of these predictions of impend- ling clash with the United States as perco- Hate through the vernacular press down Ito the masses may do harm; and fer this treason, if for no other they are worth con lsidering.
 The fact that Japan's present program of Snaval expansion covers a period of seven 5ears, and that, therefore, the consumma- jtion will be reached several years anterior ho the completion of the Panama Canal is ;xointed out by these pen warriors as sig &lfficant. It may be. At the same time l1t could not in the light of the past record slpf on-accompIishment at Panama, be ex- pected of the most friendly nation that it khould delay the completion of its greater
 navy until the digging of the 'big ditch sncross the Isthmus, even if Uncle Joe Can mon and other expert canal dfggers of Con- igress have so blithely and obligingly liked Athe date when the wedding of the waters lof the Pacific and Atlantic shall take kpiaoe at some point between Panama and ,yColon.
 ! Japan's Destiny fin Asia.
 l That no Occidental can fathom the mys iHerfous workings of the Oriental mind has S1onx been accepted as an axiom. Within dcertain limits this may be true, but l an lone of those inclining strongly to the be- tlief that the brains of men are of very 1similar construction no matter how differ lent the coloring of their skins As race t4he Japanese. have of course. certain dis sfinctive traits-whether elemental or tho iievolpnent of centuries of life under 2 ixeudaI system-and among these traits IS isecrettveness that baffles all attempts mt fathoming. uBt the men who contro ithe destinies of this empire are humans pos 8eessing logical minds, and these men mus ssea that Japan's destiny, if she is to play lany thing like the large part in world at fairs they count upon, must be worked ou
 in Asia.
 Much more likely. 1t seems to me, arr
 her war preparations for that day when tn word shaI go out for the dismembermen
 of China than that they are aimed for an
 anticipated clash with the United state
 or any European power. And, too. 1t seem
 more likely that the trend of Japanes
 thought and preparation has China Il
 view rather than that there is any anticl nation of a renewal of conflict with Rus
 i,a at any time in the near future. Tn T1nan who predicts a complete and on II