FATE'S DECREE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 244, 20 November 1909, Page 2

FATE'S DECREE.

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iii oyery civilised community amonj in- .'•,', r ' „ This r, ' vnl "t'on is doubtless s HI liir nIT. Tint pcopl,. liorn wifo flii> ";'"• »f <liit('<iiiiiii«lii|) cnit fm-erVel its ■>ilvont. and every average man of clear vi-'inn can ili'iluci' it from the xvmpl'Tu; nf the times. Ami all;hoii<,'li the people* continue to waste their strength in producing anil hoarding up the moans i.f mutual destruction, the current of universal though! ami feeling is fast sel'in>r in lli« opposite direction. European nations, for instance are slowly heeoai--111;: conscious of „ coinnuinitv of aims, ideals, ami nco.is wiiich render tlieni lc-s and les's inclined to war witli coli oilier, and more anil more disposed to settle llieir diflorcnecs peacefully. This '- so true Ileal »( present there would -eem to lie hut one serious hindrance lo normal international life and pacific orogrcss on our Continent the Ariglnliennnii rivalry, uliieli to'us in this

••'Mintrv appears one-sided, and to manv I impartial people abroad seems tlio result of erroneous l assumptions. 11 is hardly an exaggeration to assert Dial, if Hial smouldering fire of hale «,',•,. once cxt iiiL'iiislieil, Europe would slm'e loll' some of |]|„ li o] ,vi(.s| Mlcis nf mililarism and onjoy certain fruits nf pence which a feeling of smirilv for (lie mnrr»«- Mime can bestow. On Hie oilier li'Hi'l. onlv 1111 optimist of tin- wvndid Ivne ennld affect to believe, and onlv a political simpleton would venture In ael ii: accordance with the VcHef < ■■ siii.Tiiinarv eiicniin'cr l»!i , (lie l-.-nl kindred peonies will ecvlninlv lie :in»l- J

I'd. And vcl one eannoi s'ml -one's >"ts | In Ilie frnwinj conviction Hint, whichever of the l,vo wins' or 10-es. *he c. I of Hie needless contest will lie that, union of the States of Europe towards

which tiie nauons arc now sL-iiii-coii sciously weuunig a.-> oy u uucrec 01 late. "Tauo the mailer on ilm lo\v«>l "round, and you will litid thai economy Tutcrests, to "say nothing of any oilier*, prompt the peonies of jMtiope, iruiu Uie j i'agus to the Volga, to coiiiuiuc. bnless they join hands, hu "and i... n reI sources, and economise the Une 01 ilm I citizen soldiers and the cost ul carrying on the political administration, tin;,, will ill tin- near future lie worsted y their rivals over the seas. One of those rivals is' a whole continent, while .u----other is Hie great Mongol race, let in lieu of practising thrift and cutting down expenses, the peoples of Europe are squandering more ami more of I heir I 'earnings on their armies and navies. I The American Kcpuljlic, on the contrary, has the advantage of lieing aide to do with a much smaller outlay. And she i is fast winning the lie-it markets of I!; world, and ousting thenee her less for-1 ' Innate Kui-opeim competitors. And h'-r i-ople are si ill pressing forward as we live lit-en receutlv reminded, loss pcr,aps liy the new i'ayne Tarilf Bill than iy Iho couimenls which it called forth u I'i'iinee, Uormany, and (ireat llritnin.

In the Asiatic continent Japan is sleuth- pciscveringly bracing herself for Hie coming struggle—military and naval as well as economic. It is iu.xpii'itiug 'o ■aleh the strenuous cllorl made liy this -Irnng-willed, pushing people, who brink from no saerilice for the common

weal, not even the greatest, which is perhaps silent, plodding, humdrum la'air. never-ending exertion. Here in until is a striking illustration in a race no longer young of the new trans.'ortifmg spirit which is slowly coining over the world—the spirit Hint subordinates the one to the organised many. Nippon seems destined to play a more commanding and, it may well be, a more disconcerting part in the world's history than people on this side of (lie Allnlilic realise. And she is girding her loins to it. Her growth geographical, as well as military and political, has been surprisingly rapid. Twelve ycai-a' ago the area of the Mikado's dominions was no more than ,I2O,iIUA square kilometres. The campaign against China added 35,000 kilometres to it, and the war with Russia 250,000 more. Tluis one short decade almost doubled the size of the Far Eastern island realm. And the incrc.isc of the population apparently moves apace with that of fie territory. Japan is gradually coming to champion and to stand for the entire Far East. She is a match—perhaps more than a match—for the only ot'ier Power that still lays claim to the rights of co-arbiter o' the destinies of that epiarter of the globe. She is reducing ethnic multiplicity to political unity in Far Asia, welding or fusing together elements that were once held to be irreconcilable."