Another Japanese Empire could be created in the Drainage Basin of the Colorado River--What Japanese would do with that country if it were Japanese Territory--We waste annually water containing 357,490,000 tons of fertilizing material--5,000,000 acres can be reclaimed between Needles and Mexico--Every acre would support a family--Climate makes gardening equivalent to hot house culture out of doors--Inexhaustible supplies of nitrogen, phosphates, and potash for fertilizer--Enormous possibilities of electric power development--Japan would fight the Desert and Conquest it with same thoroughness that she fought Russia--Would develop vast Commerce from Colorado River and Gulf of California--Japanese Colonization in Mexico--Spirit of Speculation retards development by United States--What should be done with the Colorado River Valley--United States must reclaim and colonize that country the same as Japanese would do if it belonged to them. CHAPTER VIII STRENGTH OF A HOMECROFT RESERVE 213 A Homecroft Reserve in Scotland of one million Soldiers would have prevented this last great war--Scotch Homecrofters make such Soldiers as the Gordon Highlanders and the Black Watch--Story of the Gordon Highlanders--The Scots were the original Homecrofters--The description in "Raiderland" of the Homecrofts in Galloway--Grasping greed of intrenched interests drove the Homecrofters from Scotland--Same interests now blocking development in United States--Homecroft System of Education and Life would breed a race of stalwart soldiers in United States--Could leave home for actual service without disturbing industrial conditions--Homecrofters would be concentrated for training and organization--Would eliminate all danger of militarism or military despotism--Comparison in value of 1,000,000 trained Homecrofters with 1,000,000 immigrants--Homecroft Reserve System will end child labor and woman labor in factories and will also end unemployment. Chapter IX HOMECROFT RESERVE IN COLORADO RIVER VALLEY 247