I fancy. believed it. and yet here we have gone on until we have acquired lands in the Eastern Hemisphere within a few hundred milestwelve hundred. I think. to be accurate about itof the greatest port in the whole of Japan and nearer than that to much of her territory. Japan has no particular reason to be without fear of what she might term the "white peril." From the northwest thle colossus of European and Asiatic nations has reached dow\n toward her. Germany has seized a lodgment on the Chinese coast. from which Japan has sought the opportunity. and at last found it. to drive her. England has her sphere of influence over the mainland of Asia very near to Japan.