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over the earth.
Egypt once dominated the destinies
of the world-her soil still responds
to the touch of labor. her climate Is
still the same, but her intellectual
greatness has long since departed aud
sleeps the sleep OF death.
What mysteries are entombed in
her pyramids!
We hear no more of the marvellous
achievements of Persian and Mace
DOMAIN arms only the names OF
Xerxes and Alexander linger in the
musty pages of ancient history.
And the superlative greatness of
Greece and Rome are only known ty
the magnificence of their ruins.
And see how Spain has fallen! La
her lust for god she filled both hemis'
pheres with the terror of her name.
As nations, throughout the ages lof!
so long no one knows have arisen ard
fallen, they may continue to do so.
What loss it would be to the
world to have the civilization the
English speaking people have given
If it were to follow In the footsteIs
of the decadent nations of the pas!
And yet such thing is possible.
Indeed, it seems to have escaped
sach fate only by miracle.
If Germany had been triumphant IN
the world war it is possible that the
English tongue and the civilization
it has bestowed upon the world would
have been forced aside for the pLiias.
ophy of the Germanic civilization.
What it would have led to no one
possesses wisdom enough to foretelL
How is the civilization that the
English tongue has beep instrumental
in spreading over the earth to be
preserved?
There is but one way and that way
is for the English speaking nations
to form an alliance offensive and de-
fensive for its preservation.
We must form such an alliance as
will assure our ascendancy il this
civilization is to continue and which
seems so fitting for all time.
what is the hope of the world"
asks the Rt. Hon. w. M. Hughes, P
c., M. p, prime minister of Australi
in a speech in the house of represen
tatives at Melbourne.
"As see it." he says, it is an ALI
ance an understanding between the
two great branches of the English
speaking people. Now here is our
dilemma Our safety lies in renewal
of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty. yet
that Treaty is anathema to Americ j.
America has said that she must ha1s
the greatest Navy in the world that
she must have Navy sufficiently
strong to defend herself To defend
herself against whom? She has left
the world in no doubt, or in very lis
tie doubt, as to whom We not only
have no quarrel with Japan. We
have no quarregl with Japan. We.
have our ideals Japan has hers.
There is room in the world for DOTH
of US We want to live in terms Ct
amity with all Nations of the Earth
We could not affc~d to do anything
else no matter what we might think,
even If we desired otherwise. BIT
of course we do not If | know the
Australian people they desire with all
their hearts to concentrate themselves
on those domestic problems which
mean more to the people of the world
than anything else. War is curse
and it is our business to endeavor not
to bring about war but to prevent it
*Our ideal at the Conference, =
see it, is renewal of the Angle
Japanese Treaty in such form, modifi
ed if that should be deemed proper
as will be acceptable to Britain, to
America, to Japan, and to ourselves.
It may be said that is impossible. /
may be so. but do not think it is i'm
possible. Even when one comes to
the alleged causes of disputes and
difficulties between Japan and Amer
lea. those differences appear to be
trivial compared with the tremendous
evil which war would inflict upon
both nations What do the japanese
want? They want to hold land IN
America and the right to enter the
United States. What is our own t.
titude? Our attitude is very much
like that of the people of the Western
States of America towards Japan In
deed, and honorable member who
Ike myself has been to the Western
States. will saw that for ali uracf;ca1