Thin is the inference already drawn by European writers and speakers who have read the President's message, and to them his words seem full of the tion of fature action and of a present understanding with Great Britain, Germany, and Japan.
held that such an understanding, by the mere fact of. its existence, may be sufficient to.prevent any project for the exclusion of the trade of the nations represented from being carried into operation, Says one American writer, too—The United States, Great Britain, and Japan have such an aggregation of naval power in the China seas, to say nothing of Germany, that if the situation should ever demand s demonstration there can be little doubt that it would be effective without the firing of a shot being called for. In the arent of such action being decided on, our position in, the Philippines would give us powerful voice in the councils of the nati on the, For Eastern question. Manila is but little more than two days' steaming from Honekoug, which would naturally be the British headquarters and the point of junction of the forces of the two nations Japan ould close the Sea of Japan and the Yellow S'ea in forty-eight hours after the word was given. Nor must the moral influence nu, gested by the presence of an Ame arity in the Philippines be overlooked: We. have there close upon 20,000° troops. The: facility with which they have been sent: thither suggests equal ease in. moving the: n a few hundred miles farther."
B osten, 19th December.
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