Tore is an old fable, whether of opus or not we have forgotten, which tells of two household utensils that came to high words respecting the hue of their respec ive visages. It. is impossible not to think of this when reading of the d'spnte which re-opened, about the beginning of October, betiveen two of the many " Pans" of Europe, Those which have come to loggerheads this time the Pan-Slavs and the Pan-ang and, as is usual on these mainder of the world con strength, or should we say of lungs, the Pan-Stavs have the better of the argument. They show trinmp! that their propaganda concert countries and those only in which the Sie a great major whereas, as an Austrian-Stay jour points out, the Pan-Germanic agitation affects all countries wherever German subject has found his way; in short, wherever two or three Ten-tons are met together, there is the Pan-Germanic league in the midst of them. It is this which makes _recent German unrest so grave a danger to the rest of the waild, Already, say the Slavs, the movement has outrun the power of the government; already it has alarmed even Switz already it has pretty nestly given th death-blow to the Triple Alliance, while at the sime time the ardour of its intentions has frightened the Dutch. It is the main cause of the arming of the United tes, and the al source of the ye of Germany which is daily ug in England This is a pretty e indictment. But one ly sounds unanswerable until the other is heard. And of course the German has an answer, an answer thas within the Fatherland doubtless carries entire however lame it may sound in the ears of the unbiassed: deed, there be an aver anywhere The Pan-German did not like the cele-hiations of the Shipka Pass Hel reminded his Russi ghbour of! various disagreeable episodes which took place nearly twen! ayo, and hinted somewhat broadly at the Pan-Slav agitation which forced the Czwr to declare wir when he aid not wish to do so.
this is nearly as into: in its way as the paper that broke out xbout the same time between cur own and the German Press over the reception of the Boer Gener: At the same time it is not a little to be regretted that the Teutonic Press should have developed the intensely quarrelsome spirit' which of late years it has exhibited. When it is nos Austria that is the subject of attack it i Hungary: when not France, Russi when not America, England: England jin fact when of the others fail. So far as Brit ain is concerned the continued abuse of the past three years, renewed on every possible occasion, has caused a complete revolution in the British attitude towards Germany. The good feeling of years gone by was so deeply felt on our side of the North Sea that for a long while no Eny!ishman could bel thes the filschonds and jes attending the war wer lo in Germany; and the {is that the helical Leyds was the Machiavelli of the new departure, That explo nation has long since been shown to be insufficient, and now so deep in some q 5 is the distrust of Gor-man policy that certain reviews do not hesitate to accus. the Kaiser of duplicity in his relations with us.
About thejtime of which we are ug the "Spectator" published a strongly worded article declaring that the one aim of the Emperor was to} attach England to his chariot wheels, so that he might have something more than a finger in the pie of her] foreign policy. For this purpose was our War Minister invited to the manceuvres; for this was the visi Sandringham made, and "Spectator" was wroth thereat, The Kaiser, it said,' is in a posi embarrassment, country try in Europe, and Eng never think of entering int oan alli-where she i t all the} kicks and none of the for the writer is careful to point out that were we to become embroiled with France and Rossi: the result of coquetting with the central Power, that Power would sce us. farther! before she would lift hand or foot; i fence. Ibis not, concludes pectater," a question of royalty between one portion of a reigning family and another, -but of confidence between two people. The Kaiser st not Jock for aid from England, even if he were'ta need it, until he has once more succeeded in winning the confidence of the British people, As we have said, the feeling which dictates arti like these is a very dif ferent one from that prevailing in the happier days before Prince Bismarel Anglophobia_ had sown its seed so deep. No one regrets it more than those who its results most clearly. The "Times" Vienna correspondent, writing on the quarrel between the Pans," speaks of the " approaching" trial of ngth between she autagou'
istic elements for which they stand as though it were a thing not removed, since as it points out the Pan-Germanic movement is now no longer confined to a coterie of extremists but has become almost an accepted ideal of the State.
For ourselves, all that need said is that we hope the parties concerned will be as least as wise as the kettle and the pot in the fable and confine their warfare to words.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.