United States owns land, water and power--Development by national government would result in vast profit to it--Australian System of Land Reclamation and Settlement should be adopted--Action should be prompt to forestall friction between United States and Japan--Will never have war with Japan except as result of apathy and neglect--United State must create in Colorado River Valley dense population settled in self-containing Communities--Characteristics of Country particularly adapt it to requirements for Homecroft Reserve--Safety of Southern California from invasion would be insured--Military Highways to San Diego and Los Angeles--Defense of Mexican Border--Homecroft Cavalry Reserve in Nevada similar to Cossack Cavalry System--Correction of Mexican Boundary Line to include mouth of Colorado River in the United States--New State of South California to be formed. CHAPTER X CALIFORNIA A REMOTE INSULAR PROVINCE 277 More easily accessible from Japan by sea than from United States by land, in case of war--Mountain Ranges bound it north, east, and south--All plans for defense of California with a Navy or coast fortifications are futile and a delusion--Bombardment of English towns and comparison of English Coast and California Coast--Japan would, if war were declared, seize Alaska, Philippines, and Hawaii--Would then transport an army of 200,000 to California--Railroad tunnels and bridges being destroyed by dynamite would render relief by United States impossible--Reliance on Panama Canal too uncertain--Quickness with which occupation of California would be accomplished by Japanese--Huge military difficulties in the way of United States reconquering it--Mountain passes would be fortified by Japanese--Railroad bridges, culverts, and tunnels across deserts would be dynamited--To recapture a single mountain pass more difficult than capture of Port Arthur--Death and Desolation are Supreme in the Southwestern Deserts--Japanese would rapidly colonize all vacant lands in California--The way to make the Pacific Coast safe is for the United States to colonize it first with a dense population of intensive cultivators of the soil. CHAPTER XI MILITARISM AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 301