Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-15

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/ '7AMAa>I that in Vo-power standard alone re.
posed safe'y for the island empire.
Neither the exact amount the ALLEGATION Of the
naval estimates TOR this yet settled but speak
ing at Liverpool the first lord Of the admiralty Lord
weedmouth made interesting comment on the outlook
Ills ordshp remarked that the navy must be Of sufficient
strength to Englands supremacy on the sea- He
SAID that IN aggressive tone; had no intention and
no desire to attack any foreign power All we said was
that must have command Of the sea SO that our COM
merce may go safely it.
Speaking in great commercial gathering he asked for
support and individual sesacrhce to help the govern
ment to do what they obliged to do. He and his
colleagues desirous Of being as economical as they
could but they found that they had to make consider
able demands they ask the country to support them
With the vast expenditures which the United States
and Germany are making to place those powers on
hrst class footing regards power Great Britain
will lind exrem, ,y difficult maintain the pace in view
Of the present high rate Of taxation
The dispatch Of powerful American feet to the Pa
chic still forms interesting topic Of discussion in
England and, tor that matter throughout Europe Head
lines like this appear in the London papers:
The Rise Of the Pacific Question" Is War Comine?'
New Departure by the United States"
high naval authority says: Within the last decade
the Atlantic the center Of Americas political and
strategic interests has steadily declined and the Pacific
has as steadily risen 1t is hardly too much to say that
since the conflict with Spain the menace Of war; never
very heavy one, has been disspated along the whole
length OF the Atlantic coast line AS possible cause Of
embodiment between the United States and any European
power the West Indies have virtually ceased to exist
The problems they present are no longer international hut
domestic Again, the revolution that has taken place in
Anglo American relations another and potent guarantee
tor the peace and secnrity Of the Atlantic seabrard
Finally, the practical acquescence on the part of all
European powers in the Monroe doctrine has removed
South America from the list Of possible causes of war
No American interest would be endangered if the naval
tOrceS in the Atlantic rediced Il.
mere police squadron.
On the other hand, within the last ten years the Pa
chic has enormously the scale Of American inter-
ess Since 1898 the United States has strewn the Pa
chic with steppngstones from Hawaii the Philippines
She has built export trade the Far F asst worth
S2OOOO0O00 year. She has landed an army on
Chinese territory She has been drawn into the vortex OF
The Far Eastern question. She has played in the evou-
hon Of that question active often leading always
distinctive part She has formulated policies and taken
. hand in momentous negotiations She has definitely
enrolled the Far East among the objects Of her diplomatic
solicitude She has become, in short, Far Eastern
bower herself
1t possible therefore. to regard the new naval ar
angements as finding their or IN and justification in
fundamental events that long pre- ,ded the outbreak Of
ne present dispute Japan and America. A condition Of
hngs under which Americas ! West liabilities we're
'eing incurred in one ocean, whit e bulk Of her feet
vas stationed in another, could nj be permanent; and il
he redistribution OF American sec Ner that is now in
'rogress there may be nothing n,-e than necessary
mixing Of policy with strategy Of onsibity with force
i diplomacy with the material wer that can alone
make diplomacy effective"
Following on Lord Tweedmouths soeech Mr.. Haldape-
ecretaTy Of state o war spoke o ae navy IN speech
IT. f1anley While England had great navy he said
here might come time when il mould not Be 50 easv
or her as today 70 command the t,vo.pover standard
I1ermany had population Of naary 60OOOOOO: tbe
United States would before long have i0OOOOOO0 I
'oud Be very hard for England With i44O00OOO o main
IN twopower standard against tvo nations ,vtb j
omo1nsd population q l6O0O0000 England should
pend more money on her army