Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-27
A LESSON FROM CHINA.

Poor old china Is not to have o
monarchy after all. The president
! dictator Yuan shi Kai announces
thar he has determined not 10 attempt
TO put into effect his Announcement
that he would ascend The peacock
throne, that ii was all o mistake.
The trouble was that China was
powerless before the demands Of Ja-
pan. CHINA has long been peace
at-any price nation. She has q neg
ligible army and a navy that would
not be able to successfully meet one
modern battleship with more than
400, GOA. 900 industrious people inhab-
iting rich country, china Is helpless
before prepared Japan, with only one
| eighth as many people inhabitlng n
country comparatively sterile Of nat
ural resources.
Mr. Bryan and The other pacifisis
would Chinaize the United State7
were it not for the strength ana foro-
sight OF Woodrow Wilson who has
set himself TO tho task Of preparing
this nation for defense against any
enemy that might attack us.
Now and then, some enthusiastic
Bryante In congress asks, "Who Is
going to attack tho United States"
They point to the fact that the ma
lions Of Europe are bleeding them
selves white as veal" in this war,
and when It Is over will be deficient
in men and beggared FOR money.
The facts Of history however are
against the contention Of the paci-
fists Drained of gold the belligcr-
cnts viii be, beyond doubt, when
peace is made. but they viii not be
drained OF we'll drilled, seasoned,
fighting men. They win have arms
and ammunition IN abundance. The
gold win be in the unguardod vaults
Of the United States.
IL will be recalled that Alexander
the Great began his military career
for the purpose of conquering n few
troublesome Greek states, and ended
by conquering the civilized world He
grew stronger with each victory, one
would have supposed that the fear
ful internal conflict produced IN
France by the revolution would nat
only have impoverished the country,
bat would have made successful war
by 1t impossible But out OF II
spranR Napoleon Bonaparte who car
rlcd his lcgions victoriously from Lis
bon to Moscow ana from the pyra-
mids to the North sea.
AZ the end of the civil war, whea
II was supposed that our own coun-
try was exhausted, President Grant
served notice ON the French emperor
that he must move his armies out ~
Mexico, and Louis Napoleon moved
them, because he knew the Unite l
States had a million veterans ready
TO back the demand. This nation, at
the end of four years Of gruellng
warfare, was better prepared for war
than she ever was before or ever has
been since.
When peace has come to Europe,
there viii be bigger armies in Ems
land than Great Britain ever hal
thought of mastering, armies in Ger
many big enough 10 overwhem us IN
a month There are armies in ia
pan big enough to advance unopposcd
from san Francisco to Chicago. Fur
thcrmore, Great Britain, Germany
and Japan have sufficient Transports
TO land forces on the shores OF this
nation and hold their ground until
the force could be augmented to a
million men.
Tho position OF the United States
Ia little better than that of China. as
far as immediate defense agains, in
vosion Is concerned