The unique feature about this whole subject is that while the American people are utterly indifferent, Japan, in an incredibly short space of time, has equipped herself with everything needful for such an invasion,--Navy, Transports, and Soldiers, probably the most perfectly organized army in the world. That is the situation of California from the side of the Pacific Ocean. What is it from the land side? If Japan contemplated an invasion of our territory, how many are there who realize that just five dynamite bombs exploded in the right places would block a tunnel on every one of the railroads leading into the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley? The California and Oregon from the north. The Southern Pacific from the south. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Central Pacific and the Western Pacific from the east. Blow up one tunnel on each line and do the job thoroughly and well as the Japanese would do it,--that's the Japanese way,--and it would be weeks and perhaps months before one single train could be got in or out of California. We may rest assured also that the Japanese, when they undertook that job, would not stop with blowing up one tunnel. They would blow up a dozen on every one of the railroads mentioned, and bridges and culverts and trestles. With a little dynamite, mixed with the reckless daring of the Japanese, California could be made inaccessible to an army from the east, except by sea, for a longer time than it would take to transport an army from Asia to America. No doubt the idea will occur to some that soldiers could be transported from the Atlantic Coast to California through the Panama Canal in time to meet such an emergency. But what would we transport them in? We have no ships. And it is no sure thing that the Japanese would not get the Panama Canal blown up and stop that channel of transportation, if war was begun between them and the United States. It would require nothing more desperate to accomplish it than we know the Japanese are ready for at any time the opportunity offered--nothing more desperate than Hobson's feat at Santiago. The Japanese are a farsighted people and war with them is an exact science. They master every detail in advance. They proved that in their war with Russia. There can be no doubt--not because they have any hostile intentions towards the United States, but merely because it is a part of the duty of their professional military scientists--that the plans are now made in the war office at Tokio, for every detail of the whole project outlined above for dynamiting every railroad into California and blowing up the Panama Canal, in the event of war between the United States and Japan. And it is quite probable that the men are detailed for the job and the dynamite carefully stored away with which to do the job, if the necessity arose for it. _The Japanese do not want a war with the United States._