The Chitina leader., 1910-12-31
LET US MINE
 OUR OWN COAL
THE YELLOW PERIL AGAIN.

when one speaks OI Jdpdu dtldehiHS the United States and will say: Well, Japan is too broke to fight"
 If we would only go back and look over a little past history, we would find that in nine cases out of ten it is the poor nation that fights, not the ones that have grown rich and comfortable Was the France of Ma poleon or the Prussia of Frederick the Great rich? No. They were poor and had little credit. Now, the nation that fights hopes to gain some thing, principally commercial supre- macy
 Well, the nation that is rich has usually high place in the commer- cial supremacy of the world and is too preoccupied in holding what Il has already gained to go to war, and it is the poor nation that is tempted by the richness or others that goes to war, with the hope of extending her commerce and sending forth i'm migrants to the new country if they have been successful in the war.
 Japan is poor in a sense of the word, but rich enough to go to war, and as "Dia Nippon" is quite finan- cier, he would make it pay either way he went.
 Japan is full of contempt for the war worthiness of the American army and navy, and with such an acute realization that they have such overwhelming odds in their favor as far as the strategical situation is concerned, they are looking forward to the day when they will clash arms with the United States. The Anglo Japanese alliance ends in 1915 and cannot be renewed. Even did Japan go to war before the alliance ended, she would never gain any help from the United Kingdom.
 For the officials of the British foreign office realize that if England ever helped Japan, she would cause Australia, New Zealand, Canada, In dia and South Africa to refuse any help at all to the mother country.
  So strong is the anti-Japanese feeling in the stronger British colonies, es- pecially in Australia, that in the fu- ture war with the United States we will find hundreds of Australians fighting with the American troops for the preservation of the supremacy of the white race in the Pacific.
 After 1915 the British can feel safe enough as far as her own pos sessions are concerned, for the above named colonies, each maintaining their own fleet units, they can put a fleet into the Pacific that will be eX- pensive to keep up, but should earn the blessing of every peace-loving Britain.
 The greatest diplomatic move the United States made in late years was the sending of her fleet around the world.
 Although it did not put any fear into the hearts of the Japanese, but it strengthened the ties between the British colonies and the United States. It showed them that "Clod- din'' was their friend-not short.
 As far as any of the other Euro pean nations helping the United States, when the war breaks out with Japan, the idea is laughable and they will leave the United States to stew in her own juice, for they have a sort of Monroe Doctrine of their own and they would gladly see the United States deprived of the islands Of which she deprived Spain few years ago.
 Now as far as the politics of the Pacific and the politics of Europe are concerned, they are very remote from one another.
 The politics of the Pacific demand the open door in the realm of the yellow man and at the same time claiming the right to close their own doors to him.
 Tn Great Briitian and Europe they do not understand the menace of the