ples all too frequently means unintelligent unrest and revolution, frequently a demand for "rights" which in reality do not even exist.

Uncle Sam has a world job-not of his own seeking on his hands; and he can't shirk it. He can't wash his hands of it all, as the peace delegates asked Roosevelt to do in withdrawing United States troops from foreign soil. The democrats hold out hopes of ultimate independence to the Filipinos. But no administration will ever grant that independence. It dares not. The chaos certain to

follow is too obvious. The only alternative is citizenship. That will in a measure, at least, probably quiet the rank and file, if it does not entirely win over the more turbulent spirits. But if the United States admits Filipinos to citizenship, does that mean the Jap and the Chinese resident in the Philippines? If it does, then there could easily be one

hundred thousand Japanese and Chinese living in wattled huts and mud-roofed houses in the valleys of California. "Why not?" asks the Easterner. "Do you want the child wife and polygamous marriage?" asks the Westerner. you want insecurity for the girl wageearner in the street; for the girl child in the school?" That is the practical and terrible side of oriental immigration to the Westerner. It isn't the opposition of the labor union that excludes Orientals on the Pacific Coast. The Oriental contributes to I. W. W. fighting fund and to the labor union strike fund. The secret tongs have their labor union wages as well as the white man's trade. It is deadly fear of the Oriental as a neighbor and school comrade that influences the Pacific Coast. Yet the day that the Filipinos are admitted as citizens. Chinaman and Jap may claim entrance to United States ports, not as a privilege

but as a right. And with the Filipinos as citizens, who shall deny the same right to the Hawaiians? You are up against the problem again.

Remember, too, another fact. It is vital and it is terrible. The Boers boasted that their war with England would stagger humanity. But this is the fact that actually did stagger the English: with the enforcement of peace among the native tribes of South Africa the negro population has increased enormouslyfar more rapidly than the white. In the Philippines so long as the white race did not intervene against head-hunting and other man-killing habits--the wild tribes slew each other in internecine warfare. As soon as "Thou shalt not kill" became civil as well as moral law, the wild races multiplied beyond all possibility of the white race. Hindu, Filipino, Japanese girls become mothers at eleven and twelve and thirteen.

But putting the overseas enigma aside for the present, let us turn again to the Mexican situation. If Uncle Sam declares "Hands off" to other nations, he is responsi

ble for the ultimate pacification of that dis

tracted land.

Yet the

Mexican dis

trusts, if he

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does not hate, the American. The story of that distrust is a heritage from New Mexico and Arizona. It is the same memory as the South held after the War. The carpet-bag politician in both instances wrought the distrust from which the United States suffers today. When the American Government took over the administration of New Mexico and Arizona and California, these States were peopled by the old Spanish dons with their retinues of Indian slaves, to whom they acted with, perhaps, more paternalism than Americans have ever given them credit. Title of Spanish land grants dated back to the seventeenth century.

At one fell swoop, servants and slaves were dispersed, and titles were disputed. Yankee boot-leggers, carpet-bag politicians, penniless adventurers from every part of the United States, rushed into the new land and pre-empted Spanish lands by right solely of the squatter. Texas

cruiser, or submarine might be somewhere about on the alert.

In a way, the admiral was relieved by the arrival of fog. He had not wished to attract the enemy's attention before daybreak. It was not that he hesitated to risk battle by night, even in the enemy's home waters, under the ordinary conditions of naval warfare, but he had a fear far above the fear of the ordinary hazards of battle. With the cruisers of the sea he felt he had at least an even chance. But for battle at night with the cruisers of the air, he had a dread. Should he chance to be drawn into an exchange of shots with a prowling war vessel, the cannonading was almost

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certain to bring down one or more of the aerial cruisers, as alert for trouble as is a watchful hawk to pounce upon a hare.

On an ordinary night a dirigible swallowed up in the gloom could destroy, at leisure, ships of the enemy that might be so unfortunate as to come within its patrol. Now the fog rendered both air and sea forces mutually invisible.

About eleven o'clock a land breeze sprang up, sweeping the sea clear of its mists and the sky of its clouds. A little later the full moon revealed every object on the sea for miles around. It revealed something in the air, too-the great

black hull of a dirigible bearing straight down upon the squadron. She was flying high and swiftly, but a hundred pairs of sharp eyes were quick to glimpse her from the decks of the vessels.

Orders were at once given to man the guns specially designed for fighting dirigibles and aeroplanesguns so mounted that they could sweep every square inch of the sky from horizon to horizon. But the real interest in preparations for the defense was concentrated toward