The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-27
HApTAIN MAHAN'S LATEST.

I'm IN tho % 1ntefna,ionsi Relations OF s,s,.s
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"A publication of book by Captain
"a In an event In such discussion
"A chooses To bring forward, and this
III book Is worthy 70 rank with his
E-mskIng work. THE influence of
Bower Upon History" Its chapter
are: .'Armaments and Arbitra-
r. ."Dlplomacy and Arbitration:
Hes ss International Factors 80 The
Ieucies OF Law as an Instrument of
:Sstional Adjustments THE Place
<orce In International Relations"
n V0reat Illusion" THE Panma Canal
Tgea Power In the Pacific" why
Nv the Panama Canal?' 1.-The Naval
college" and WAS Panama "A
.Sfer OF National Dishonor'," The
ii IS completed with n good working
maps the most important chapter In
work is the final one. which consid
Me Panama Canal situation with ref
IL to our treaty OF 1886 with Colom-
Ind II is interesting 10 note that
-rhapter Is a complete vindIcation of
crsftlon OF the United States. Cap
Nahan takes up the argument In a
thorough going fashion, showing
,IXn6 lJUllGu NIdttS u1V no llllUTN lb
NDnited States OF Colombia In It's
1od with respect to the prclin,inaries
be construction on the canal On this
n5n Mahan SAYS: TT Is beneficial to
fFe that the summary eiectment OF
fabIa from property which she could
Improve herself, and against the
uveinent Of which by another she
"a fdvolous obstacles, is precisely in
With transactions going on ali over
a. tha disf,.aaS ~
hy people who think that law should,
Va, settle all matters. binding nations
", Persia, Tripoli. Algiers. Morocco.
hand on the same general basis as
ma The world has needed them.
keohnical possession By legal pre-
Hon has fallen still falls, and should
lue, to fall, before the advance OF
Rorld when the owners are unable
hwilIinE TO improve. or TO confer Sc
n" Tho argument Is we'll sus-
ID in logic, reference, and fact. and
hin Mahsn is to be congratulated
The force and conclusiveness Of It,
pther chapter Of great public inter-
"The Great Illusion" where Cap
Mahan deals with a book of that
by Norman Angel. which under
industrial stability, its security In
nercial activiey--in short, its pros
and well heing-do not depend
its being able to defend itself
Nt the aegressions Of other nations
Iproposition Captain Mahan believes
q erroneous in two particulars: first.
matter OF fact. and second, as
~ or ethics; for, as matter OF
economic advantage does accom-
The use Of military force, and Sec
s matter Of ethics. II often hap.
yhat the right has to be defend ed
Ece. Conspicuous Instances Of the
" OF M, Angels contention are
py Captain Mahan. as in the su-
fy Of Great Britain as n financial
1dustrial community arising mainly
81 me predominance of her military
power during the Napoleonic era.
ne economic development of Ger
following upon her war with
re In 1S70-7l; to which Captain
Ia might well have added the mill
uevelopmeDt OF Prussia under Fred
she Great and his seizure of Silesia
tne consolidation of the Prussian
all military movements OF high
and all laying deen and sure the
epon OF Germany's economic md
rtal superiority,
other chapters Of the bonl, arc
.py lucid and convincing. and the
as a whole Is q splendid addition to
kne economic and the military prob
lof the time. -