Arizona republican., 1912-12-08
CANAL WILL END
 YELLOW PERIL
Opening of Big Ditch Will Double Strength of Unit ed States Navy By Per mitting Fleet to Pass from Ocean to Ocean.

NEW YORK, Dec. The great est rcalignment Of trade routes and the most thorough remaking of the commercial map of the world that has occurred since Columbus dis covered America will take place fol- lowing the opening of the Panama canal next year. The west coast of both Americas wl be brought thous- andS Of miles nearer to the great commercial cities of the Atlantic seaboard New steamship lines will
 ply from Europe to the western ports of the United States New growth and activity will animate the gulf cities. New industrial centcrs will spring up. the mills and mines and factories of the country will be brought into closer touch with the
 great markets of the Orient and for
 the first time the dream of an ocean passage from Europe to the coun-
 tries of the east which led to the launching of that first evontful voy- age will he realized four hundred and twenty years after the great dis
 covers attempt.
 Not only will the opening of the
 canal alter the worlds trade routes and determine the commercial des-
 tnirs Of scores of cities and perhaps
 of nations, but it Wil also have other
 effects to which less attention has
 been given Perhaps one of the
 most important of these will be that
 it will put an end to what has long
 been a threatening spectre to str
 tegists and statesmen of the western
 Uorld-the yellow peril. This result will follow not only because the canal will double the naval strength of the
 United States by enabling its fleets to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific in d fraction of the time formerly required but also because il will set in motion economic eur rents that will remove occasion for alarm on this score. For thr yellow | peril, though commonly referred to as threatening d tremendous conflict 1 Of arms between the people of Asia
 and America, really had it's founda- | ton in purely economic causes.
 Until now the western coast of the | United States and its mid Pacific l islands. remote and difficult of ac- l cess from the great population rescr- vnirs of Europe from which the labor 1 supply of the rest of the county 1 has been drawn, rap;lly developing l and with ( demand for labor far in | excess of the supply have confronted 1 across the Pacific the most densely l crowded nations in the world where 1 the pressure of a population scarcely l aDIt to subsist at home was becomjn < ] constantly greater. The ever-preS .nt l danger has been that the preSsul " of a population scarcely able to suo- sist at home was becoming constantly greater The ever present danger has been that this pressure might become too great for any legislative or treaty barriers to withstand and might sweep eastward in an irresistible overflow
 At first thought it might seem that the Parama canal could have little influence upon this situation It will not lessen the struggle for existence 1 among the races Of Asia except as II will increase the trade or ASlauc l countries and add to tha industrial opportunities of their peoples. us l effect. however, will be to solve the labor problem of the Pacific coast and Hawaii by putting these sections in direct touch with the great sources of immigration in Europe. when II becomes possible for steamships |" sail directly from Europe through the Panama canal to Honolulu, San tran = cisco and the other Pacific ports the
 stream of immigration which now dwindles to insignificant proportions
 before it reaches them. seepinG west ward through New York and across f the continent, will come direct and Tn