Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-03-30
WORRIED over
PHILIPPINES
Briton Thinks Japanese Could
Easily Take the Islands
From the Americans.

| ls'ND'N' Eng, MAT Z me cen
ter Of international gravity has now
shifted to the Pacific, and IL Is mainly,
In that direction that the dominating
factors will he found when any herious
future complications arise" This ut
tcrancc by Lord Roberts. made in 1901,
was quoted by r. Miller Mcguire in Il
paper on The New Pacific" at the
Royal Colonial Institute.
In the New Pacific" said Mr.. Ma
| guirc. there are strategic potential
ties and risks, ~ well as grand field
| for trading energies. by II dwell the
ancient communities in Asia which
have renewed their mighty youth aud
| sprung up fully armed in all the piano.
ply of modern civilization. The yellow
race Is the great reserve labor FUND of
humanity. and dangerous commercial
rival also
| But II Europe insists on sharing
in the wcaitt of China. sending expo
ditions to cathay. and making alli-
ances with the children of Nippon. the
yellow race viii demand tit for tat,
and II nation that asserts the Monroe
Doctrine may well sit silent under the
| SHt'tS anu lblnlS VI llS own lbfllltT
President Roosevelt Arbitration looks
well on paper. hut II never yct-nur
| did any other theory or document OF
pcaCc-stOp war.
What Traffic Is invoived7
| win the Panama Canal he fortified?
" so, why? win it, traffic he pro-
tcCtcd? II so. what becomes Of the
various treaties which seemed to give
| commercial security to nations like
| England" As England gained most in
! strategy and commerce 10y the compile
ton of NJ. de Lcsscp's great work at
SucZ. 50 the United States seems like
| ~ to gain most In both strategy and
commerce by the Panama Canal. and
| they seem resolved to gain most--cvcn
| by very strenuous methods towards
bordering States and preference to their
own mercantile marine
| The strategic value of these canals,
| IL commanded Mt sea by the power
which controls them by land. is cnor-
NOUS: and the importance of the Unit
| cd States Of securing convenient har-
| hors and excluding thcrcfrom other
powers became apparent at once, hence
the cagerncss with which the range
| and application of the Monroe Dostrnc
| were extended. the war with Spain,
| ON little prctonsc. and the determine
, ton to exclude other maritime powers
from positions like the Galapagos
| Isles
ON the other hand. | am informed
| by admirals that in this respect also,
| command of the sea Is an abridGmcnt
l
| er got command of the Caribbean Sea
and of the Pacific, II would also COM
mand the canal; and thus they repudi-
ate the suggestion that the construc-
ton of the canal will put an end to
British naval supremacy If the naval
heart in Whitehall be sound.
yellow Race Ascendant.
CLEARLY the yellow race Is lord of
| the ascendant on the Asiatic Pacific
| coast. with the exception of the few
| territories pertaining to France. to the
| United Kingdom and Germany, and the
few native states such as Siam, which
still survive European aggression,
though much contracted In numbers
and in area. 1t Is also true that Japan
is our ally.
| lUl let not llllS console OF tbllllbIl
MS. She will he our ally so long az
our alliance Is worth having. and no
| longer. Baron Suycmatsu, In his Risen
sun. tells US how the Anticipated Sa
| mural were turned into the conqucrng
| divisions and batteries who outmancu-
vered and outfought the stiffcst SOL
dicr of Siberia and Muscovy In Man
churia.
THE Japanese did their work All too
well; they could dispense with their
ally bctlmcs-wc became onloOkcrs IN
this great struggle, and one of its re-
| suits Is that our own territories In
the Pacific are 10y no means safe. More
over the japanese may attack and de-
feat the Americans any day.
Could Take Philippines.
II believe that they could take the
Philippines from the Americans with
just as much ease as the Americans
defeated the Spaniards In 1898. and
there are excuses for quarrel with the
complications now pcndinG-prefer-
"nCc in the Panama Canal In spite of
treaties. fortiiication of the canal. the
monstrous doctrine called after Pres
idcnt Monroe. and the fact that in no
Pacific port or territory, from Adelaide
to Vancouver, and from San Francisco
to Hobart, do yellow men-simply be-
cause they are yellow men-gct as fair
play as white men.
For these and other causes the pcu-
pie of Australia are becoming apprc-
hensive and are adopting that univer-
sal obligatory military service with
out which Baron Suyematsu says his
COuntrymcn would not have had n
chance of winning the battle on the
Shaho, let alone Mukden, and without
which our own folk would never have
crowned the Pyrenees In 1913, and the
Germans would not have entered Paris
as COnQuerors forty years ago.
UNLESS our empire" added the
speaker, maintains superior navy of
sound ships. well manned, and with
ample reserves well found and ready.
the mere fact that We possess 80 many
decisive strategic points in the Pacific