If once that mighty power be awakened and the drillmaster of the Caucasian penetrates into the interior of China armed with governmental power. there will awake the strength of the sleeping: giant. and she will rid herself of Japan. and she may continue her march to the west when once aroused. It is her only salvation. unless the powers of Christendom shall intervene. The United States exercises sovereignty in the Philippines. Japans expansion is seaward as well as landward. Her ambition covers the Pacific Ocean as *ell as the Asiatic mainland. With Germany in perpetual intrigue. it is no far inference that a practical partition resulting from a union of those two powers in Europe and Asia is no impossible event. So such a coalition is the standing menace of the worlds peace.