The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-12
BRITON THINKS JAPANESE COULD
EASILY TAKE THE PHILIPPINES

LONDON, March 1.-The center
of international gravity has now
shifted to the Pacific, and it is mainly
in that direction that the dominating
factors will De found when any Sc
rious future complications arise"
This utterance by Lord Roberts, made
in 1904, was quoted by T. Miller Ma
guire in a paper on The New Pa
cific," at the Royal Colonial Institute.
In the New Pacific said Mr.. Ma
guire, there are strategic potential
ties and risks, as well as a grand
field for trading energies. BY it dwell
the ancient communities in Asia
which have renewed their mighty
youth and sprung up fully armed i'll
all the panoply of modern civilization.
The Yellow race is the great reserve
labor fund of humanity, and a dan
gegous commercial rival also.
But if Europe insists u sharing
in the wealth of China, sending eX-
petitions to Cathay, and making ALI
ances with the children of Nippon,
the Yellow race will demand tit for
tat, and a nation that asserts the
Monroe doctrine may we'll sit silent
under the sneers and Launts of i,s
own former President Roosevelt. Ar
bitration looks we'll on paper, but it
never yet-nor did any other theory
or document of peace-stop war.
What Traffic Is involved?
will the Panama Canal be forLi-
fed? If so, why? Will its traffic be
protected? If so, what becomes of
the various treaties which seemed to
give commercial security to nations
like England?s AS England gained
most in strategy and commerce by
the completion of NJ. de Lessep's
great work at Suez, SO the United
States seems likely to gain most in
both strategy and commerce by the
Panama Canal, and they seem re-
solved to gain most-even by vecy
strenuous methods towards bordering
states and preference tostheir own
mercantile marine.
THE strategic value of these ca
nails, if commanded at sea by the
Do,ua,, ,,,biob oopt,vDIe tbaD, nv land
is enormous; and the Importance to
the United States of securing cOnven-
lent harbors and excluding therefrom
other powers became apparent at once
hence the eagerness with which the
range and application of the Monroe
doctrine were extended, the war witt
| Spain on little pretense, and the de
termination to exclude other maritime
powers from positions like the Gala
pages Isles.
"On the other hand, am informed
| by admirals that in this respect also
| command of the sea is an abridg
ment of monarchy and that if anOth
er power got command of the Carib
/ bean Sea and of the Pacific, it would
also command the canal; and thus
they repudiate the suggestion that
the construction of the canal will put
an end to Birth naval supremacy il
the naval heart in Whitehall be
sound.
Yellow Race Ascendant.
Clearly the yellow race is lord o.
the ascendant on the Asiatic Pacific
coast, with the exception of the few
territories pertaining to France, t.
the United Kingdom and Germany
and the new native states, such al
Siam, which still survive European
aggression, though much contracted
in numbers and in area. 1t is alst
true that Japan is our ally
"But let not this console or com
fort us. She will be our ally so lonl
as our alliance is worth having, ant
no longer. Baron Suyematsu, in hi
Risen Sun tells us how the anti
quated Samurai were turned into tn,
conquering division and batteries WIFI
out-maneuvered and out-fought tn