Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-06-10
NESTOR A. YOUNG SEES DANGER
 AHEAD
Believes Japan Is A Menace To Pacific
 Coast
Orrom Saturdays Daiiy)

Ncstor \. Young, the noted mining engineer of Los Angeles, was inter viewed at the Head Hotel today and 10 the question, What do you think of tho situation politically and otherwise in the United States today. he replied: CT am born cptimist. I do not be. Hove the pessimist has any right in this glorious country. but 1 do not like conditions as they exist at present. 5sihsbness instead of patriotism con. trols all too many of our public ser. wants. How we are mantled with shame as with garment when we rc. hsct that many of our United States senators hold their positions only be. cause they are representatives of great corporations, while quite as many more sre there through their wealth and to gratify the ambitions of wives and daughters to "shine' in society. Gods, How the Goddess of Liberty must groan in contemplating the imbeciliiy and sycophancy covered by the togn of senator in so many cases.
 "The anniyticni thinker is appalled, at tho almost omnipotcnt power of the combine today in which is gathered representatives of the leading banks of Europe and America, representatives of the dominant railways systems of inc American continent. of the great steel, oil and other gigantic trusts which are assuming tO bo stronger than tho government. When this gigantic octopus has no more soul than the ravenous hycuu controls the transportation system. the legislative and political systems of our country, then are we indeed in a condition, of industrial, commercial and political sla. very. The real issue is not a contest between democrats and republicans. between labor and capital, it k n clean cut and well.defned battle he. tween the international money lending combine, backed by their great banks, their railroads and cormorant trusts on the one side, and the honor of Amer. can citizenship on the other, engaged in . heroic struggle to maintain a gov. ernment that guarantees civic liberty nivil rights. The two great parties 'he Lincoln Roosevelt republicans, and The Jackson Bryan democrais-arc so similar in many respects. Both are- good Americans, both are patriotic cit. isens, both strive for equal opportuni. " and for liberty. hoth eoneedc the necessity of rigid immigration laws, uphold the Monroe doctrine, et cctera, but with all these they both place par 'isanship before preservation, cand. dates before principles. and thus be ooms blind to the great common dan ger.
 "Tno great masses do not realize that we are concerned in more than fhe administration of internal affairs We are squarely launched upon the broad and turbulent sen of information al politics, from which we cannot re. cede if we would. Look at the almost electrical situation of our Pacific coast. In the state of California there are more than sixty thousbnd Japanese. nearly every man a trained soldier. See how they are collected nt the vul. ly disposed in squads of from twenty o one hundred along our great trans. continental lines of railroad. Even now they are building all the warships they can in their own shipyards, while old England has for many months been at work upon four monster battleships of the first class for them, the better 70 enable them 10 grapplc for the as. tendency in the Pacific. Every hour their warriors and statesmen are plan. ming to capture the Philippines and Hawaii, and to invade our Pacific coast. What an oppoftune time when our battelships arc all on dress parade m the harbors of Australia, or have passed through the Suez canal for this treacherous power which sunk the reat battleships of Russia before de. clar'ng war to send her fully equip. ped and prepared navy conveying an army of forty thousand or more over to our unprotected ports, murder. pillage and devastaic our entire coast, carry away hundreds of millions of our spe. cie and leave the land dcsolate. Si. simultaneously with the land attack, these bands of inland maraudcrs would blow up every railway bridge. every tunnel, and destroy every snow shed, thus pnralyzing any effort of the gov ernment Co get soldiers and munitions of war to our relief. Put none but