The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-24
IS THERE
METHOD IN
REVOLUTIONS?
ARE OTHER NATIONS BEHIND
CENTRAL AMERICAN REVOLIS!
BOTH GERMANY AND JAPAN ARE
SEEKING TO ESTABLISH NAV
AL BASES IN THE WESTERN
Hemisphere.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 24-Is Japan
or Germany stirring up strife and
secretly preaching sedition in Gen.
tral American countries in order that
the United States government will
be compelled to send all her battle
ships and fighting strength away
from her own shores to quell the
disturbances?
When our coastlines and fortresses
are left unguarded and all our at
tention turned toward Central Amer
lea will Japan or Germany swoop
down on the states themselves, catch
ing her defenders off their guards?
win it be necessary for the incom-
ing president of the United States
to issue a call for volunteers? Would
we eventually be able successfully to
visited upon US?
There are those in this nation who |
fear that we have become over con-
fident in the enjoyment of long en-
during, piping times of peace.
Germany is armed to the teeth.
Japan is a wasp. Her people are
intoxicated by the first thrills of re-
juvenation; her soldiers sleep on
their arms.
There are 100000 Germans in
Brazil while Central America and
Mexico are overrun with them; the
financial and commercial interests of
the Fatherland in these countries are
enormous and Germany already has
tried to establish naval base on
North American territory. Hawaii is
a pearl, dangling by the thinnest
thread; the Philippine islands are
rich possessions, miles upon miles
away from the government which
controls them and near to the
nations which covets these posses
sions.
The peninsula of Lower California
is the object of longing eyes. Her
mountains are storehouses of wealth
and her harbors are wonderfully
adapted for coaling stations and
naval bases.
Over against this is set a short
paragraph written by a hand which
no living man has ever shaken and a
. treaty of cession made by a nation
which either must treat or fight a
lost cause.
The first is the Monroe Doctrine
which arbitrarily sets forth that
this country will permit no further
usurpation of strictly American con
tinental rights by European powers
, The Monroe Doctrine is a thorn in
the side of England, of Russia, OF
Italy, of Spain. of France, but mostly
= it pricks Germany
. The treaty which was the instru
: ment ceding the Philippine islands t.
< the United States at the close OF
9 the Spanish war. according to many
: is not worth the paper it is writer
< on. Certainly it will become worth
- less the moment Spain thinks thi!
country can no longer hold these is
lands. Spain will never think that
in all probability, but other nations
Japan for instance, might presum,
that just because Spain was beatel
in a sea fight or two and becaus,
4 the United States paid some million
of dollars to the Dons for these is
Dnds, there is still no valid reason
why she should not seize them 70
her own enjoyment. That is tn
= case, in all its various aspects.
nc The department of justice recentl
claimed to have unearthed a cor
+. spiracy which contemplated a col
. certed revolt in practically all c
N the Central American countries. Tn
first step was taken, it was aIlege
when the president of San Salvado
> Central American republic, fell {
the hand of an assassin. A resu
no was an order that all suspected shiI
KA clearing gulf ports should be exam
ined for indications of filibusterir
ted expeditions. Mexico has blown L
/ like a mine. Cuba ferments. 9th,
Central American countries are res
less.
10 And, true to the lines of the pIa
the United States has sent warsh
after warship booming down to IL
Or triples and has prepared hundreds
men for instant transfer to Il
ny scenes of instruction.