The law of life and selfpreservation is as important and necessary to communities as to individuals. and is as inalienable and inherent in the one case as in the other. and no principle is more firmly imbedded in the ethics of international law than that it is both the right and the duty of the paraniount authority in every state. in whatever ferm that authority may be vested. aiid however it may be exercised. to protect the state and the people of the state from all aid every evil that may threaten its safety or menace the interests. prosperity. or happiness of its people. be they few or many. and herein alone can be found justification for a resort to the arbitrannt of war. Disguise it as we miuy we cannot longer fail to recognize the fact that western civilization has met the eastern upon the shores of the Pacific. The westward march of the Caucasian has there met the same teeming hordes that generations ago gave a westward direction to his tireless energy by inmposing on his cast aliving wall of Asiatics. iiiossibletopissorlovercontr. The Pacific Ocean until recently had proved an imlassable barrier and no Mogolian liad ever passedto its eastward shore. But recent developncuts in steamships and the establishinent of lines of stean eoniuniiication between San Francisco and the open ports of China and Japan tavo practically connected the two contineuts and bridged the iiutrvening sea.
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Teeming hordes of Asiatics are an impossible living wall to pass over or control.