Iditarod pioneer., 1916-08-12
AN EXTREMISTS VIEWS ON DANGERS THREATENING
 THE AMERICAN NATION
Crank Burlington Vrooman, in Century
 MagaMneD

1 Magazlne
 1 am looking for d coalition between Ger many and Japan after the war IS over-l
 am not sure it will wait till peace Is signed 1 to break the Monroe doctrine once for all. l A nation that could find a pretext to
 rl.rgc the world into war in the mur- 1 der of an archduke might have little diff
 cuIty in making her claims against Mexico. 1 The crisis may crystalhze through MeXico 1 CT Panama or elsewhere. It Is to be re
 menbcred that there are indications in both
 Germany and Japan of feeling that the | Monroe doctrine IS an InSClence not to be l tolerated Those cf us who have cared to 1 know are wei aware of the colonization III | South America, and especially in southern 1 Brazil where for ten years Germany has l virtually had standing army larger than
 our whole army. We know of German movements in Haiti and the Danish West l Indies, in Mexico, and especially in Canada
 and the United States. By this time the
 veil has been lifted from the whole vicious masquerade of German policy in the reveia- 1 tons of the ramhcations Of the tentacles
 of the official spy pyand-bully system head- I quartered at Washington. In the light of 1 the revelation of the main conspiracy and | it's relation to Berlin, certain facts appear
 to have new significance that there are i more Germans than reservists and more l hvphens than Germans One may ask what | the German official clique did with the forty millions said to have been received by wire l less in those days before and after the dra- 1 matic debut of the villain on the stage at i Columbus N NJ. and why simultaneously 1 at Vera Cruz German resprvistS have re | gently been gathering and what a curious | coincidence it is-how very curious that 1 the GnrmanS have more machine guns in | Mexico than we have in cur whole army | l do not think anybody knows how many | they have in the United States. Another ! interesting circumstance was the reported | discovery among some captured papers ot 1 Villa of a treaty with Japan giving thls gentleman million dolIarS for the right to | land an army in the United States, Speak | ing of the Japanese, also there are certain | circumstances of significance which stand l cut for the consideration of wise men. | There are said to be more Japanese veterans of the wars of the mkado in California
 at this moment than our whole mo5Ia i standing army; aS many more Tn Ha"aH half as many more in British C,lGmoIa. ! There gre said tc be still more in the 2hlhp-
 pines and in Central America, cl.S!ng Tn
 about the Panama canal and l have been ! told by an officer of the staff of the war col 1 Iego at Washington that there are 40J,0j0 | Japanese soldiers in Mexico. Our amlabI" 1 pacifist friends do not think there IS danger 1 of invasion of this country by the Germans 1 or the Japanese. We are already invaded. 1 What was the meaning of the reports 1 that Japanese dead were found among the ! Mexicans killed on our border, that the 1 Mexican troops were officered by Japanese at
 Vera Cruz. and that Japanese crew of
 a warship made an official visit to the i authorities at ChapuItapec and narrowly
 escaped an international complication; l.
 there significance in the fact that the Jap
 anese have parcled their German prisoners
 in Tokio and are banqueting them and that the Japanese press is singing the pralSe of "Deutschland Ueber A les'? Perhaps it Is
 well here to remember that the }aoaneSe learned their "Welt-politik' in the German
 school. At the time of the debacle in 1870
 the Japanese in Paris left it in haste and
 went to Berlin, where htey succeeded m ac-
 ouiring the whole German system ot mill
 tarism and espionage. Here they not only
 learned the organization of armies and the
 making Of munitions but every process of
 the gimlet methods of the spy and d-bully sys-
 tem which on the part of both the German
 and the Japanese has wormed its way into
 the last secret and service of our govern
 ment There is no need in calling att"n-
 ten to the significance of the omincHs DOT
 tents rising upon three horizons, south, east
 and west to all of which we have made the
 same feeble gesture the polite complacency
 ci the tran>cendental optimanac.
 The first lesson in pan-Amerlcanlsm ls
 10 learn the significance of the presence
 here of pan Germany and pan-Japan, What
 do we purpose to do about it?
 IL is about time to look the world over and see if we have any friends who can help
 us to preserve our free institutions intact on
 this hemisphere If we have no friends, let
 us behave SO as to deserve them. Let Us
 acouit ourselves so that nations will see in
 us desirable ally, and not parasite for
 whom they are to pull chestnuts out ot the
 fire.