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Swiss Military System ideal for Switzerland--Not
adapted to United States as a whole--Reserve of wage
earners impracticable--Their mobilization would cripple
industry and cause privation for families--City clerks
and factory workers lack physical stamina--A citizen
soldiery needed of hardy men like founders of this
nation--Anglo-Saxon stock is deteriorating in
cities--Only remedy is Homecrofts for workingmen and
their families--Otherwise Industry will destroy
Humanity--Greatest danger to the City of New York is
from within--Racial degeneracy is most serious
menace--Patrician class warned against Roman System
which resulted in Proscription and Confiscation--The
spirit of Switzerland should sway the world--Inadequate
Standing Army a serious danger--Invites attack against
which it cannot defend--United States Standing Army
gives no assurance of national safety.

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MENACE OF ASIATIC COMPETITION AND INVASION 135

Japanese influx into Hawaii and Pacific Coast
States--Unexpected incident like blowing up of Maine
might precipitate conflict--In that event peace
advocates and governments might be powerless to prevent
war--Japanese merit the good will of other
nations--Reasons why they come to Pacific Coast--Japan
is overpopulated--30,000,000 rural people on 12,500,000
acres--Population increasing 1,000,000 annually--More
Japanese in California of military age than entire Army
of United States--Japanese in South America and
Mexico--United States must meet economic competition of
Japan--Pacific Coast must be settled with Caucasian
population that will cultivate the soil as Japanese
would cultivate it if it were their country--Otherwise
armed conflict with Japan inevitable.