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THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

EDITED BY GEORGE B. M. HARVEY.

VOL. CLXVIII.

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

NEW YORK:

11 WARREN STREET.

1899.

LIBRARY OF THE
LAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

a.36949

Copyright, 1899, by THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW PUBLISHING CO.

All rights reserved.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

No. DVI.

JANUARY, 1899.

AMERICANISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM.

BY ANDREW CARNEGIE.

FOR several grave reasons I regard possessions in the Far East as fraught with nothing but disaster to the Republic. Only one of these, however, can now be considered-the dangers of war and of the almost constant rumors and threats of war to which all nations interested in the Far East are subject. There is seldom a week which does not bring alarming reports of threatened hostilities, or of new alliances, or of changes of alliances, between the powers arming for the coming struggle. It is chiefly this Far Eastern question which keeps every shipyard, gunyard, and armor yard in the world busy night and day, Sunday and Saturday, forging engines of destruction. It is in that region the thunderbolt is expected, it is there the storm is to burst.

It is only four years since Japan defeated China and had ceded to it a portion of Chinese territory, the fruits of victory. Then appeared upon the scene a combination of France, Russia and Germany, which drove Japan out of China. Russia took part of the spoils for herself, and Germany later took territory near by. Japan got nothing. Britain, the most powerful of 11, stood by neutral. Had she decided to defend Japan, the greatest war ever known would have been the probable result; the thunderbolt would have fallen. Were the question to be NO. 506.

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Copyright 1898, by THE NORTH AMERICAN Review PublISHING COMPANY. All rights reserved

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