AN AMERICAN SOLDIER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1914, Page 4

AN AMERICAN SOLDIER.

As the Sonoma steamed up Sydney Harbour a few days ago. and glided slowly up to the wharf, there leaned over the rail the square-set, sturdy figure of Colonel W. G. Have, of the United States Army (says the Sydney Morning Herald). In appearance he is exactly like the photographs of exPresident Roosevelt. Colonel Have is a globe-trotter, but a globe-trotter with a serious purpose. He has seen a "little" fighting. He was in the .Spanish-American war at Santiago. He was in the Porto Rico expedition: saw a lot of Cuba, and served two years in the Philippines. He was at Pekin with the Chinese relief expedition, and was a spectator of most of the big things in the Russo-Japanese war. In a few sentences Colonel Haye pictured the hopeless state of Mexico. "There are," he said, "no ex-presidents, or ex-generals in Mexico. They all get killed off too quickly. They do not worry about revolutions in Mexico. I saw 26,000 people go to a bull fight, and there was no sign of a revolution. But the soldiers surrounded the amphitheatre, commandeered a few thousand of the audience, and drafted them into the army." Will America step in? "We are a peaceful people," Colonel Haye replie. "We do not want any more territory. Why, we are going to give up the Philippine Islands.. What I do not understand in Great Britain as well as Australia—is the everpresent invasion scare. First it was the Russian bogey, until Japan pricked the bubble. Then it was the German scare. Now it is the yellow peril. Japan does not want to invade Australia. She has her hands full with Manchuria and Korea, which are immensely wealthy countries. As an Anglo-Saxon, I find it rather humiliating to be continually hearing of these war scares. Why do not you get your paople oh to the land, and develop this great country-? Do not worry about these : rumors of wars. Pull up and develop Australia. Never mind about war scares. Develop Australia agriculturally, give up strikes, and war scares, and go right ahead with agriculture."