Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1911-03-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

WAsHINGTON, March IL, 1911.
During the session ofCongress which
has just closed, there was incessant
oratorical strife between the jingoists
who sighted or imagined wars horrid
front across the Pacific, and the peace
prophets who predicted an ara of calm
with such sponsors as the Hague
Tribunal and the Carnegie Peace Fund.
The war heralds, of whom Congress
men is the arch.type, believes that we
are on the verge of war with Japan,
and Hon. HobsJn even predicts that 1t
will be precipitated before another
year. Those who pipe the time of
peace insist that this arranged
war scare is mainly in the interest of
contractors, the builders of warships
and Notifications, and the purveyors
of munitions of war.
Congress had barely adjourned when
an army of twenty thousand men was
assembled on the Mexican border for
what exact purpose the administration
has not said. During the session rep
resentative orators were slurring the
army and magnifying our defenseless
condition. 1t was given out that
Japan could land quarter of a million
of soldiers on the Pacific coast before
we could get ten thousand there
Well. in lsss than a week we have as
sembled completely equipped army
of twenty thousand men more than
half on its journey to the Pacific slope,
and there is no doubt that with the
lines of railroad at our disposal we can
in two weeks or less time place forty
thousand men in position to defend
the three or four sensitive points of at
tack on our western litoral.
The prevailing opinion at present is
that the military demonstration Of the
Rio Grande is for a purpose somewhat
similar to that which precipitated the
war with Spain. We can no more
tolerate the perpetuation of geurilla
war in one Spanish country than in
another on our borders The benign
.despotism that has for twenty i've
years or more masqueraded as a re-
public III Mexico and which has de
pended on one man cannot in the nat
ural order much longer depend.
= Diaz's strong hand has plainly lost it's
grip. The central government is
nerveless. Mexico is nearer to us than
Cuba, as near to us, in fact, as Canada.
We have interests in that country
amounting to nearly two billions OF
dollars The Rio Grande is a good
place strategically for the army. The
time must come when we will be able
to send an army from Laredo, Eagles
Pass or El Paso by train direct to the
ribbon strip that we own at Panama.
Gall it "maifest Destiny" or what you
will, there is no getting around the
fact that North America, including
Canada with Great Britain behind her,
must protect for her own safety and for
the benefit of each and all, the Western
Hemisphere.
The day before President Taft left
for the South he had long conference
with the ex-senator who before the
4th of March was known by the jour
nalistic profession as the manager OF
the United States. Senator Aldrich
came up from the southern resort
where he has been for nearly two
months and had a long conference at
the White House. 1t cannot be doubt
ed that the Aldrich financial bill was
the subject of conversation. The
enactment of this bill will revolution
ize the banking system of the United
States and it is thought by sound
financiers establish the American
banking industry on high plane and
solid foundation, making it the lead
ing financial country of the world