Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-18
WAR ON THE UNITED STATES.

Rear Admiral Kane, in his speech on the bat
tie between the Monitor and the Merrimac, ut
tered a note of warning about the danger OF for
eign war He thinks the United States will have
to defend the Monroe doctrine in with
at least one first-casS power within the next
eight years. lie mentioned no nation, but those
that h." have four hundred ships at their disposal
which they use to land an army OF two hun
dred thousand men in this country number not
than three.
Only three powers can be thought of in this
connection and only one of them Great Britain,
could command the services OF four hundred YES
sells suitable for such purpose. AS far as Great
Britain is concerned, this country has nothing to
fear. In her trade with us she has too much at
stake We have nothing that she wants, or could
hold if she had it. In her Canadian possessions
she gives hostages for the perpetual main
tenance of peace If she blockaded all our ports,
took the Philippines and destroyed what little
shipping we have on the high seas, she could
not defend Canada and she could not land an
army on our shores In the end would have
her greatest colony and would have consolidated
continent under flag. Talk of provoked
by Great Britain is absolute nonsense.
We have had hundred years of peace with
her, and that century has been filled with dis
pntes Of all kinds likely to lead to war; yet all
have been settled by arbitration or by treaty
after nothing than of words in the
newspapers. Away back in 1898 English soldiers
under Captain Drew cut out vessel used by
Canadian rebels which lying in American
waters below Buffalo and sent it in flames over
Niagara Falls We had no war The fiftieth an
nversary of the Trent affair has just passed. 1t
brought no war Fenians organized on Ameri-
can soil three expeditions to invade Canada and
twice crossed the boundary line, but we did not
fight of it, We had similar cause of complaint
against Canada in the matter of the st. Adams
raid but no trouble followed We had presi-
Dental campaign with election cry of fifty
four forty or fight = but we did not declare war
forty minutes nearer to the North Pole, though
that strip contains all the best wheat land in
Canada. We bought Alaska from Russia and cut
off large part of the British Northwest Ter
rtory from the open sea and this last bound
airy dispute has Just been settled without war
In the last century we have had enough excuses
for with Great Britain to have had one
every ten years The stakes on both sides are
too great and such war is now further off
than ever
War with France is even more impossible Gun
interests do not clash with hers and we hold
eoterminouS territory in any part of tn,
world We have not even had argument with
France since the days Of the wars Of Napoleon
We have not even an immigration problem il
which the French figure in any way Franc,
makes vast profits ont Of her trade with MS anc
wants nothing that possess.
There remains only Germany among the ma
tons that could have figured IN Rear Admira
kanes mind The only possible chance 81
SERIOUS hi>iiutr Win NrfhanN Hes M Souii
America German trade interests there have. be-
come important and her investments 50 iarg,
that She might b. forced to collect debts from
some Of the minor republics hy force 81 arms.
tpholding the Monroe doetrine might hiring a,
into thu dispute and We would have 20 thai
lusiies douc 81 Germany 5 claims Apart
from this their s. no chance frr irirrnations
tfouhle Ia any event tirfmany could uoi lanl
trn0ne uur shores. AnA would uat e. Is wal
with a. hssause here delrn.ss in Europe waula
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